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To: globalheater
"Certainly demography is rotten here (in Europe and especially in Germany). But it is the same in the US - in 25 years of time the mother language of the most US citizens will be Spanish."

- While I am not American, I vacation there annually and the increase in the Latino presence, especially in the south, has been remarkable. Latinos now make up about 5% of the American population. However, one thing should be kept in mind. America is a land of immigrants and has a long history of tolerance and more especially has a built up series of legislations, social conventions and public tolerance to deal with new arrivals. I don't think many European countries are equipped, either emotionally or socially, to handle new immigrants in the volumes that they have been experiencing in recent years. They tend to give them menial jobs, consign them to ghettos' and then try to forget that they are there. In France especially, the situation is festering.
Demographically, many European countries are going from Eutopia to Eurabia as birth rates fall. In the US the birth rate is slightly over 2.0 children per couple, while in many European countries it has fallen to 1.5 or lower (that is below the replacement rate which is somewhere around 1.6)
A very interesting, if long, discussion of this whole topic with emphasis on the European experience was written by Steyn some months ago and may be found at:
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550710/posts#comment?q=1

As a European yourself you may want to wade through it because I don't know if the press in Europe is keeping the public really aware of the long term impact of what is happening to them.
71 posted on 04/07/2006 5:35:57 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: finnigan2

... neither do I think that your awareness is at 100%.

Sorry but this is an old story - you rather see the grain in your neighbours eye then the B52 in your own.

But that's partially why I am here - to see my world from another angle.

In this special case I'd like to say - well if we don't have the history of making immigrants happy germans - then we better build it. Why exactly should we fail ? Why should muslims be - by definition - our doom ? Is it really a physical law ? I think that's BS.

We just have to get our heads out of you know where they are stuck up. There is examples in nearer history where europeans have proven to be astonishinly adaptive and flexible - not the french certainly - but we can digest one agricultural nation down - they'll come up again after they bumped their head on the wall.


72 posted on 04/07/2006 5:46:11 AM PDT by globalheater (There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare - Sun Tzu)
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