Posted on 06/14/2004 4:14:42 PM PDT by blueminnesota
Most of the European nations had colonies in the 3rd world at least up to World War II. France, for instance, colonized Morocco and Algeria; the Netherlands colonized Indonesia; Great Britain colonized India and what is now Pakistan. Even after these countries cut their colonies loose, they still remained in a sort of "commonwealth" status with the "mother country" (something like Canada's relation to Great Britain today.) Very free immigration was encouraged between the former colony and the European country.
After World War II, Europe didn't have a baby boom as we did here in the US. After rebuilding, there was a tremendous labor shortage in Europe during the 1960s, and it was then that many European countries allowed liberal immigration (often from former colonies) as "guest workers." The "guest workers" weren't allowed to become citizens, but they were given generous welfare benefits, and thus continued their tradition of 6-7 kids per family (as opposed to 1.3 or something for the Euros.)
Then, after the EU got going, the European countries changed their guest worker laws, and those children of guest workers were automatically given citizenship (like we do in the US with the children of illegals, because of the 14th Amendment.) Also, the laws were changed to make it far easier for guest workers to get citizenship themselves. So most of those 5-6 million French Muslims of Moroccan or Algerian origin, for instance, *are citizens.*
IMO, Europe is *doomed.*
And I'm calling for a Fatwah on his Fatass and everyone like him.
Agree they're dooomed - the guiltridden, self-hating, multicultural, moral equivalent lefties signed, sealed and delivered their country to the Imperial Islamists on a platter.
Old Europe is what the U.S. would become if the morons at Harvard and Wellesley were allowed to run everything!
As the old commies would say, you "know the score." Every year the difference between the US and Europe becomes thinner, as we increasingly knuckle under to political correctness.
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