I do hope that this is more pessimism than reality. That said, the EU does have to deal constructively with the fact of migrants, both with respect to classical refugees from violence and those due to ecomonic conditions. Is massive drought or other environmental conditions that leave peole unable to feed themselves not also a basis for recognition of refugee status?
Nope there’s a big push back. they don’t like German telling them they WILL take in refugees when they have issues of their own. add on an issue with a lot of the refugees want to make little pockets of their homelands refusing to assimilate, in effect recreating what they fled from and the Europeans are tired of the mess.
^In the US there are many cities and town with Chinatown districts, Japantown districts, Hispanic districts, Polish districts, etc., etc. Assimilation is a slow process and does not mean that the immigrant becomes exactly like the previous group of immigrants (because, one way or another, we all are derived from immigrants). In constructive assimilation the cultural exchange goes both ways. Just to take a very limited example, how do you suppose doner kebab got so popular in many European countries or Indian cuisine in Britain? If isolationism and hyper-nationalism win out in Europe, it will result in a reduction of living standards overall. I think the growth in poverty that has been reported from Britain lately is a grim warning of that.
This is a tough issue to deal with overall. You have to ‘try on both pairs of shoes, so to speak’. Each group of poeple…established citizens of a country and those hoping to find safety in a new country…both have to meet actively and discuss the issues..almost one-on-one. Languages are difficult to learn….on the one hand…and trust and safety may be strange feelings to ponder from the other side. Someone should develop a process that solves these issues in as short as time as possible before tossing strangers into completely alien situations. It is hard to expect totally different cultures to love each other Immediately.
martens almost 6 years ago
I do hope that this is more pessimism than reality. That said, the EU does have to deal constructively with the fact of migrants, both with respect to classical refugees from violence and those due to ecomonic conditions. Is massive drought or other environmental conditions that leave peole unable to feed themselves not also a basis for recognition of refugee status?
Wizard of Ahz-no relation almost 6 years ago
Nope there’s a big push back. they don’t like German telling them they WILL take in refugees when they have issues of their own. add on an issue with a lot of the refugees want to make little pockets of their homelands refusing to assimilate, in effect recreating what they fled from and the Europeans are tired of the mess.
martens almost 6 years ago
^In the US there are many cities and town with Chinatown districts, Japantown districts, Hispanic districts, Polish districts, etc., etc. Assimilation is a slow process and does not mean that the immigrant becomes exactly like the previous group of immigrants (because, one way or another, we all are derived from immigrants). In constructive assimilation the cultural exchange goes both ways. Just to take a very limited example, how do you suppose doner kebab got so popular in many European countries or Indian cuisine in Britain? If isolationism and hyper-nationalism win out in Europe, it will result in a reduction of living standards overall. I think the growth in poverty that has been reported from Britain lately is a grim warning of that.
kfccanada almost 6 years ago
This is a tough issue to deal with overall. You have to ‘try on both pairs of shoes, so to speak’. Each group of poeple…established citizens of a country and those hoping to find safety in a new country…both have to meet actively and discuss the issues..almost one-on-one. Languages are difficult to learn….on the one hand…and trust and safety may be strange feelings to ponder from the other side. Someone should develop a process that solves these issues in as short as time as possible before tossing strangers into completely alien situations. It is hard to expect totally different cultures to love each other Immediately.