> You've gone from observing a fact to speculating on its causes, and the answer you've arrived at is "because they're lazier" I think you're both taking my in

> You've gone from observing a fact to speculating on its causes, and the answer you've arrived at is "because they're lazier" I think you're both taking my initial comment which meant to refer to a specific subset of immigrants and interpreting it as if I meant to apply it to all immigrants. > Yours is not the first time I've heard a European utter the notion as if it's the most natural conclusion in the world. We indeed consider it self evident that a welfare system like ours is fragile and prone to abuse by people who intend not to contribute. That's just about acknowledging that lazy people exist everywhere and that to maintain stability of our system we need to make sure not to disproportionately attract them. My original comment also referred to a recent public policy issue relating to a specific immigration policy (family reunion) being abused to bring large groups of people into the country who were not looking for jobs, not learning Dutch and forming insular foreign communities that structurally lived off of the welfare system. We're talking about only a couple hundred or thousand people at most and as stated I actually believed even that was still a net-positive overall, but that is the only thing I would truly classify a parasitic class. P.S. There is indeed plenty of racism to go around in Europe as well. Racists, like lazy people, are everywhere.