Yes, it really was the wave of the „new left“ making itself felt.
But whose fault was it? I blame several things, among them the unprecedented prosperity of the Fifties and Sixties, but also the bad conscience of many people towards the nations of the Third world.
Some have said that this might have been the fault of the „Greatest Generation“ but maybe the „Silent Generation“ helped more. The Boomers were, I think, for the most part too young to have had much political influence before the late Sixties and Seventies.
” But whose fault was it? I blame several things, among them the unprecedented prosperity of the Fifties and Sixties, but also the bad conscience of many people towards the nations of the Third world. “
I think for countries outside the USA, it was their own version of “Civil Rights” and “Desegregation”.
So, for these other countries, as they watched what was going on in the USA, activists and agitators were able to create a fuss over racially and numbers limited immigration, and allow in large numbers of the Third World.
We saw a more extreme version of the Globalized Americanized culture during the George Floyd nonsense. Where countries like Ireland protested against themselves and their history of anti-black “racism” - even when no such past conduct existed.