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I’m not from Hungary or Poland so can you please explain to me why Hungary and Poland seem uniquely inundated by refugees and apparently terrorists? Are there t

I’m not from Hungary or Poland so can you please explain to me why Hungary and Poland seem uniquely inundated by refugees and apparently terrorists? Are there terrorist attacks happening from refugees regularly in Hungary and Poland? Why are they special, or are other EU countries just getting terrorist attacks and are ok with it? I’m genuinely asking because looking at the map, neither Hungary nor Poland are the first stop for a middle eastern refugee, and I have no idea where the statement of infiltrator from ISIS comes from because I haven’t heard of an uptick of terrorism in either country.

majgr 5y ago
Poland is very homogeneous regarding race, church. Most, who vote for populists, weren’t abroad, or hadn’t opportunity to meet other cultures really. Everything they know come from tv, or social media, and right-wing uses social media extensively: Facebook groups, or YouTube videos to scare them, you know, when one falls into Recommended black hole there is no turning back. Rapes, burning cars etc. Even government TV likes to remind from time to time what a “problem” refugees are. So it is mostly by showing everything negative about Muslims in Europe that is ever been able to find.
enriquto 5y ago
they will answer that they don't have terror attacks precisely because they don't let terrorists in (unlike those pesky french and germans)
- krzyk 5y ago
  Well, don't you see it as one of the reasons?
  - trasz 5y ago
    The polish way of avoiding terrorism is very simple: just don’t count it as terrorism. Voila, problem solved. Works just as well with COVID tests.
krzyk 5y ago
> I’m genuinely asking because looking at the map, neither Hungary nor Poland are the first stop for a middle eastern refugee, and I have no idea where the statement of infiltrator from ISIS comes from because I haven’t heard of an uptick of terrorism in either country. People are more reluctant to let immigrants from too foreign culture in, e.g. Poland let in > 1M of Ukrainian immigrants (they are from similar culture as Poland) during last few years. Those assimilate easily. Also, people are afraid of the unknown. You force that on them, they will object -> vote for those that will block that. There is no way around that. This happens more in places that are more religious and for example Poland is, if you let in people from different (also religious) culture you create a clash. I think it would be easier for Czech, where there are few religious citizens. As for terrorists. People watch TV -> see that ISIS is cutting heads -> EU wants to import people from exact same region into your country. Many people objected to that, even those less nationalist.

majgr 5y ago

Poland is very homogeneous regarding race, church. Most, who vote for populists, weren’t abroad, or hadn’t opportunity to meet other cultures really. Everything they know come from tv, or social media, and right-wing uses social media extensively: Facebook groups, or YouTube videos to scare them, you know, when one falls into Recommended black hole there is no turning back. Rapes, burning cars etc. Even government TV likes to remind from time to time what a “problem” refugees are. So it is mostly by showing everything negative about Muslims in Europe that is ever been able to find.

enriquto 5y ago

they will answer that they don't have terror attacks precisely because they don't let terrorists in (unlike those pesky french and germans)

krzyk 5y ago
Well, don't you see it as one of the reasons?
- trasz 5y ago
  The polish way of avoiding terrorism is very simple: just don’t count it as terrorism. Voila, problem solved. Works just as well with COVID tests.

krzyk 5y ago

> I’m genuinely asking because looking at the map, neither Hungary nor Poland are the first stop for a middle eastern refugee, and I have no idea where the statement of infiltrator from ISIS comes from because I haven’t heard of an uptick of terrorism in either country. People are more reluctant to let immigrants from too foreign culture in, e.g. Poland let in > 1M of Ukrainian immigrants (they are from similar culture as Poland) during last few years. Those assimilate easily. Also, people are afraid of the unknown. You force that on them, they will object -> vote for those that will block that. There is no way around that. This happens more in places that are more religious and for example Poland is, if you let in people from different (also religious) culture you create a clash. I think it would be easier for Czech, where there are few religious citizens. As for terrorists. People watch TV -> see that ISIS is cutting heads -> EU wants to import people from exact same region into your country. Many people objected to that, even those less nationalist.