Thanks again for a thoughtful reply. Often when one is close to a situation, it is difficult to view it objectively. I enjoyed your insights.
"Thanks again for a thoughtful reply. Often when one is close to a situation, it is difficult to view it objectively. I enjoyed your insights."
Thank you Once-Ler, I hope your Nation can find a good long term solution to this issue.
"That is an excellent observation. The Catholic Latino immigration is much closer to American culture than the Muslim immigration endured by Europe."
Exactly, and they are also much closer to European culture. They and their descendands are much more likely to have become integral part of their adopted nations without much problems. It is though always likely that there will be gettoizing and balcanization when a large influx of people from the same or similar bacground move into a new nation.
F.e. are many Poles coming to Iceland to live and work. They adapt well and I beliewe that within a generation or two they will have become Icelandic. But as there are so many of them, it is slowing and even hindering integration. If to many from a single or to similar background come it will become harder than if people come as individuals from all over the world.
But even though people of European stock are more financially well of in Latin America, then f.e. was Argentina, the country with the most European of populations in Latin America, in severe economic problems during the 70´s, the same time Europe needed bigger workforce.
And people in Argentina came from Germany, Sweeden, France and other countries that desperately needep people during this time. It seems straigth forward that they should have tried to get those people to return, but istead they took poor ignorant people from a very different culture in the Anatolian higlands of Turkey and from other muslim countries.
Some even beliewe this was deliberate by some cinister forces, see article in Brussels Journal:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/840
"Bat Ye’or convincingly argues that the transformation of Europe into Eurabia is the result of a deliberate strategy that was foolishly set in motion by French Gaullists who wanted to create a European-Arab counterweight to the United States. Today the European Union is continuing this policy, which aims to create a united Mediterranean continent based on a symbiosis between the Northern and the Southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea."