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But mass immigration has huge problems - look at Sweden, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, etc.
by nivenkos 4y ago
But mass immigration has huge problems - look at Sweden, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, etc.
- argsnd 4y agoWhat about them? Have you been there? Noticed anything problematic?
- Brigand 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime_in_Germa...
- CBarkleyU 4y agoPlease keep to Reddit with comments like that. If you don't have anything to contribute other than the most basic things, just keep it to yourself.
- jdiez17 4y agoHave you read the article? Until recent years, "there is no relationship between the scale of refugee inflow and the crime rate". Now there's a (in my opinion) small increase in the probability that a crime is perpetrated by a foreigner, but this seems to be _mostly_ related to the demographics of immigrants: > This was attributed by criminologists to the subgroup consisting of men aged 16–29 is disproportionately large at 34% of the total [number of immigrants] and that young males are overrepresented as criminals in all parts of the world, rather than to their ethnic origin. It seems pretty clear to me that the benefits of immigration outweigh this, as long as the total amount of crime stays at a low level, which subjectively seems to be the case.
- cm2187 4y agoIf you don't think immigration is the source of the majority of the crime in europe, I suggest you watch any documentary on French prisons and look at the inmate. Now there might be many reasons for that, poverty probably plays, etc. But the outcome is fairly obvious.
- jdiez17 4y agoI don't know about France but it definitely is not the case in Germany.
- cm2187 4y agoI am not familiar with Germany but the numbers quoted here seem to suggest it is the case there also: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13711/germany-immigrants-prisons https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13711/germany-immigrants-...
- wink 4y ago> Gatestone Institute is a far-right think tank known for publishing anti-Muslim articles. From Wikipedia. So no, not even gonna read that article.
- cm2187 4y agoBetter stay in one's bubble
- mrguyorama 4y agoSays the guy literally parroting the narrative of a far-right, anti-muslim think tank.
- cm2187 4y agoI don't mind reading all sort of opinions, won't burn my eyes. "I won't read it because it is written by people from a different political persuasion" is a very strange statement to make, and the very definition of a bubble.
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- bsaul 4y agoThere are huge problems with immigration in France and it's been a growing problem for the past 40 years. But contrarely to what people think, crime isn't IMHO the worst of them. The worst is the feeling that the cultural norm of the country, as well as its "visual" identity has shifted from a european country to a (mostly) african one ( and please read the rest before making hasty judgments on what i'm saying). To understand the problem, imagine going to a few remote rural areas in japan in 40 years and each time only see tall 7 feet blond and blue eyes people, speaking swedish and not finding sushis or ramen anywhere. I like all cultures, and i believe there's great things everywhere, but that's why i'm also a bit sad to see "traditional" France (whatever that means) disappear.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoBeing reverse colonized must really suck. Almost as bad as the people who were originally trampled by French boots.
- wikfwikf 4y ago"the cultural norm of the country, as well as its "visual" identity has shifted from a european country to a (mostly) african one" This is delusional, and yes, I did read the rest of your comment.
- nivenkos 4y agoI live in Sweden and there was a bombing outside my apartment last week due to gang conflicts.
- raverbashing 4y ago"Haven't noticed anything problematic" is a naive take Nothing to worry about in Rotherham Nothing to worry about in Parisian Banlieues https://www.lepoint.fr/education/laicite-pres-d-un-enseignant-sur-deux-s-autocensure-selon-une-etude-06-01-2021-2408422_3584.php https://www.lepoint.fr/education/laicite-pres-d-un-enseignan... Of course there's a difference between bringing people with a degree for example and letting any kind of migration happen (which for the most part wasn't the case during the migrations of the XXth century to the US) This is not to say immigration doesn't have its advantages and that criminal issues are not only due to recent arrivals (quite the contrary)
- spaniard89277 4y agoI live in Spain and go to France relatively often. In France the problems are quite severe by this point. It's not only in Paris and Marselle, is also beginning in other places too. This means insecurity, gang violence, threats, etc. There's also a cultural aspect to it. It used to be just extreme-right speech but IMO It's time to stop looking elsewhere and face the problem. In Spain it's only insecurity, and controlled to a certain degree, but in Barcelona is noticeable, and in Madrid is beginning to bein noticed. Is nowhere the level of France but it's definitely growing. A lot of people is looking up north and wondering if we should take this more seriously, so we don't end up like our northern neighbours.
- modo_mario 4y agoI'll only speak about Brussels since I'm Belgian. There's a serious unemployment issue in Brussels. Brussels has more foreign born people than local born and definitely more than ethnic Belgians. The thing is it's not much tied to people born in the EU as per study. Those tend to come for the jobs requiring higher eductation for the EU, NATO or some international company or the like. They contribute to varying degrees (NATO folks are often tax exempt for example) but i don't think anyone wants them gone or cares too much. It's not much tied to locals either. It's tied to the people that are typically the focus of anti migration parties which typically are non eu migrants. They often don't have the education that the city demands nor the language skills (It's pretty damn easy to get a job if you speak the 2 national languages perfectly but don't have a degree for example). All in all they don't really fit the niche of sustaining the social security net as is often brought up as the core advantage except for the fact that they have more children which is tied to a brand of persistent social conservatism ....which isn't really wanted either. All in all it feels like immigration is happening too fast to avoid this group setting itself appart in various ways leading to (self)-segregation and probably persistent social strife down the line.
- huntoa 4y agoYes, here are some examples from Berlin: • Iraqi brutally rapes & tortures/torments 14yo and 21yo [1] • 11yo children (Afghan and Syrian) raping 10yo [1b] • Afghan Islamist stabs woman (unprovoked) -> half paralyzed [2] • organized crime (55% suspects are non-German, 5% unidentified) [3] • Islamist terror attack [4] • violence in public open-air baths, mass brawl [5] • primary school pupil threatens teacher with beheading [6] comparing it to [7] • honor killings [8] • > 1 billion euros fraud alone with covid test centers by submission of false claims, many operated by Turks and criminal clans (non-Germans) [1] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/berlin-frauen-ins-auto-gezerrt-und-vergewaltigt-dreizehneinhalb-jahre-haft-a-e7d26dc5-a01e-407a-a72e-13a0f88e025f https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/berlin-frauen-ins-aut... [1b] https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/berlin-grundschueler-vergewaltigen-zehnjaehrigen-entsetzen-in-der-hauptstadt-a-1226153.html https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/berlin-grundschueler-... [2] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/04/hobbygaertnerin-angeklagter-angriff-messer-lebensgefaehrlich-verletzt-prozess-wilmersdorf-berlin.html https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/04/hobbygaertneri... [3]https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/JahresberichteUndLagebilder/OrganisierteKriminalitaet/organisierteKriminalitaetBundeslagebild2021.html?nn=27988 https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/Jah... [4] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschlag_auf_den_Berliner_Weihnachtsmarkt_an_der_Ged%C3%A4chtniskirche https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschlag_auf_den_Berliner_Weih... [5] https://twitter.com/austausch_info/status/1538813556547788800?s=20 https://twitter.com/austausch_info/status/153881355654778880... [6] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/extremismus-berlin-muslimischer-schueler-droht-lehrerin-mit-enthauptung-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-201111-99-294736 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/extremismus-berlin-musli... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty [8] https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/berlin-frau-von-ihren-bruedern-wegen-gekraenkter-ehre-getoetet-17473397.html https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/berli... [9] https://archive.is/PNDHS https://archive.is/PNDHS , https://archive.is/SnyJE https://archive.is/SnyJE
- vkou 4y agoI'm sure there's a number somewhere between 0% and 100% that can ameliorate both demographic problems, and the avoid the vague 'huge problems' you cite. Canada seems to be doing just fine with a quarter of its population being foreign-born. An alternative answer to this situation, of course, is to observe that the demographic problems in question are largely overrated, and that the productivity gains of the last century will keep old people from having to live under bridges and eating cat food.
- sergers 4y agoWe essentially need the immigrants to prop up programs like pension for future. Canada is too big, land area wise for the population it has to support major infrastructure. So we need constant stream of new souls to collect taxes and help prop up the next group
- TylerE 4y agoI wouldn’t count the land area, really. It’s mostly tundra. Doesn’t something like 95% of the population live within 100 miles of the US border?
- vkou 4y agoMore than half of Canadians live south of Seattle, 80% of the country is completely uninhabited, and most of what is - is not much different in infrastructure (and the lack thereof) as the middle-of-nowhere parts of the US.
- dsq 4y agoA lot of Canada has no soil due to glaciers repeatedly scraping it off and dumping it in the US midwest.
- sergers 4y agoYea sorry if my point wasn't clear, I was basically trying to say this. Because of the vast distance between inhabitable area, it is very Costly to support connected infrastructure without the population needs to support it
- lawn 4y agoAnd in Japans case very little immigration also has huge problems. It's not black and white, we should stop treating every problem as such.
- mrkeen 4y agoI did look at Sweden. I moved here 6 years ago.