I'm not sure I understand, you say they have no idea what they're talking about, but understand that they may feel threatened by immigrants taking their jobs. S

I'm not sure I understand, you say they have no idea what they're talking about, but understand that they may feel threatened by immigrants taking their jobs. Seems like a not so irrational fear. The article is even taking about others problems "Though Muslims make up less than 5 percent of the population, there is growing evidence that many of the new arrivals fail to enter the workforce, are slow to learn Danish, and end up in high-crime immigrant neighborhoods where, while relying on extensive state handouts, they and their children are cut off from Danish society". As a french guy, I think people should be really cautious about taking a large proportion of (relatively) poor people less educated than natives, sure it makes you feel good about yourself, then you realize that these people are more likely to be unemployed, criminals, and discriminated. I don't think it makes a country more tolerant, I think the opposite happens, prejudices simply grow, and not only without rational explanation. And 40 years later you have gigantic problems. Are french people of Arab descent discriminated in France for example? Yes I think so, and I'm pretty sure it would not be the case if the only Arab immigrants France had taken had been very educated people. Presumably the prejudice about them now would be that they are very educated/successful. Sure France did a terrible job at integrating immigrants from Arab countries, and I'm 100% sure Danemark will do better. Still, it's very difficult. I'm seeing it right now in Europe, helping these refugees didn't make the countries more tolerant, it only had the opposite effect of giving more power to far-right parties. Isn't Danemark already relying on the "solution" of "sending more and more of them home"?