10-26-2015, 07:46 AM
(10-25-2015, 10:36 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Damn, this thread is a total train wreck. Does anyone want to start over?
At this time it is a minority. At least it is a minority that is rioting over it. But the immigration problem in Europe is a real powderkeg. There has been a strain of anti-muslim feelings in Europe for at least 30 years. I went to college with a girl who was from France. The mom was pretty liberal on many subjects, but she felt that the Muslim immigrants were "ruining the country". It wasn't violent KKK type stuff. It was more like the "I'm not a racist, but an awful lot of blacks are lazy, sexually-irresponsible, criminals" I hear a lot where I live.
And none of these European countries have any extra money to take care of these immigrants.
It will be interesting to see how electiuon go across Europe over the next few years.
It got mentioned in another thread, the nationalism. We tend to look at these sorts of goings on with a skewed point of view. We are a nation of immigrants, but that is not the case in Europe. UK is an oddball because of their colonial efforts, but mainland Europe has been pretty much on their own. Sure, there are immigrants, but for the most part they stay within their own communities. Things like this are causing those communities to overflow into the general population and it upsets the balance.
When I talk about the generalizations, I am thinking about the violence. The anti-immigrant mindset is growing, but the violent side of it is the minority.
