40 years ago, those were the same people who "hated" how cavalier the French supposedly were regarding marriage and sex. That is to say, these are people who don't really care about Europe in the first place. They weren't watching French cinema or mingling with Parisians then, regardless of France's actual culture, and they're not watching Eurovision now.
They're already just nationalist folk reaching for for an example of what makes their culture the better one. Those people exist all over the world, and will always exist in some influential share, and don't change their mind based on fiddly little details like who wins a little talent search pageant they never cared about in the first place.
These people do need to be engaged with if we want international fraternity and open trade and stable military relationships, but that engagement is about finding reasons for those nationalists to think bigger to to make sure they can see benefits to pursuing those ends with weirdos half a world away, because the people half a world away are always going to look like weirdos when that's what you want to see.
They're already just nationalist folk reaching for for an example of what makes their culture the better one. Those people exist all over the world, and will always exist in some influential share, and don't change their mind based on fiddly little details like who wins a little talent search pageant they never cared about in the first place.
These people do need to be engaged with if we want international fraternity and open trade and stable military relationships, but that engagement is about finding reasons for those nationalists to think bigger to to make sure they can see benefits to pursuing those ends with weirdos half a world away, because the people half a world away are always going to look like weirdos when that's what you want to see.