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You can't add 20+ million imigrants to Germany (and that's what's they'd need over the course of the next decade or two in order to avoid demographic collapse)
by badpun 4y ago
You can't add 20+ million imigrants to Germany (and that's what's they'd need over the course of the next decade or two in order to avoid demographic collapse) without massive social problems and/or Germany no longer being Germany.
- ceejayoz 4y agoDemographic collapse won't cause "massive social problems and/or Germany no longer being Germany"?
- badpun 4y agoYes, of course. My point is that they're screwed either way. The time to fix this was 30 years ago.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> without massive social problems and/or Germany no longer being Germany This is where America wins. There is no American ethnicity. There may be, historically. But mythologically: no.
- warinukraine 4y agoSaying 20m is meaningless unless you mention a time scale.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoYou can if you force every immigrant to be educated. Germany's problem is that their immigrants are not. There are more than enough educated people that want to immigrate to America, start with allowing every international college graduate to stay and your most of the way to solving the demographic problem. Even still, the US is much less homogenous than germany. A variety of cultures is not a problem.
- badpun 4y agoImagine if 80 million people immigrated to the US over the next decade or two, most of them from non-Christian cultures. I imagine this would lead to, at least, a major political crisis in US history - i.e. major rise of xenophobic far right, talks of secession or even civil war etc. AND, that is in a country that's very open to immigration, compared to Germany.