| Slimebeast said: Now race is not my main perspective on this issue but it's okay to put it like that (I would prefer culture and heritage). Either way this issue is one important reason why I want immigration into Europe to stop immediately, not just into my own country. Our third biggest city in Sweden, Malmö with a population of over 300,000, is turning into a melting pot with lots of ghettos and crimes never before seen in our country. Of all people under the age of 20 in Malmö, Swedes are already in the minority! With our current rate of mass immigration (which has been record high in the last 5 years and it will only increase even further because our politicians just loosened the immigration laws) in less than two decades the same will have happened in all our big cities. People with foreign origins will be in the majority, at least if we're talking about the younger population. Who knows what implications this will have but so far the signs are extremely worrying. Even mundane things such as changes in cultural preference & heritage bothers me. It sucks that Sweden won't feel like Sweden soon. A melting pot who ignores will not care about our history and culture. And the majority of youngsters will be into hiphop and gangster rap (not to speak of the serious issues such as crime, unemployment, struggling economy and well-fare system and changes in morality and behaviour in society). If your country is like that, fine. All countries have different cultures, and I like that. If I travel to Athens in Greece I want to feel like I am in Greece, not little Asia. If I go to London I want to see England, not London the melting pot. |
America is a nation built on immigration, it is also the most economically successful nation in the history of the planet. Immigrants are beneficial to the economy - labourers are labourers no matter where they come from, and increasing the amount of labour simply increases the economic capacity of the country. The economy struggles with welfare. Immigrants only speed up an existing problem with welfare systems, they do not create them.
Crime rates are linked to unemployment figures, which is linked to a struggling economy. Fix the welfare system, fix the economy, fix unemployment, fix crime rates.
The other points, sure, are your own opinions. I can't change those, nor do I have any desire to. But, from an economic stand point, immigrants are only beneficial to the economy, not a drain on it. Economics are not the only thing that matters, but they are one of the more important factors.
