The western countries have failed to face the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to economic recession and a large number of death in the middle and lower class。New social issues and existing problems such as the gap of wealth, racial tensions have becoming increasingly fierce. The current identity politics issue is mainly manifested in the "extreme pursuit" of political correctness by liberals, which even leads to criticism of past history and historical figures, and the spread of historical nihilism. The rejection of immigrants by natives, and the deep-rooted Islamophobia of Europe are becoming more intense. Under the case that neoliberalism crisis and anti-globalization trend, the radicalized identity politics movement in the western countries will continue to remains high. At the international level, the new identity politics in The West countries is also combined with the increasingly obvious national nationalism. The wave of anti-globalization, anti-multilateralism and right-wing populism is sweeping in, and the process of globalization is facing great challenges.

Hu Yifei. The Dilemma of the Identity Politics and a New Thinking. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2022), Vol. 4, Issue 7: 41-45. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2022.040708.

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