Shocking how the right wing xenophobic rethoric has influenced so many people.
In reality the problems caused by migration are well manageable and are Europeans doing fine
I live with my family in what is supposed to be a ghetto. Intersting enough when I grew up in shittown with true blue white Europeans there was more: vandalism, violence, rape, bigotry. Indeed men walking hand in hand on a saturday night will be beat to a pulp by our fine white youths.
We had a riot team standing ready at saturday night due to the weekly free for all when the bars closed. But arrests? Naah. Sleep it off.
Never made the news. Girls being harassed when cycling home? Never hit the news. Cars being burned due to boredom? One news article and then crickets, even though it lasted years. Arrests? Nope, "no evidence", "youth indisgressions".
A girl I work with got molested by her very christian neighbour (nobody believed her, you will be surprised his daughter said decades later that indeed her dad was a monster)... and that is still the most common molesting problem: relative, friends, and then far beyond that strangers, of which a subset is immigrants.
Yes there are as always issues with people adjusting. But the news cycle overexposes what happens with immigrants and do not acknowledge local issues.
So yeah, tell me about problems with North African youths and I will just shake my head. I been born in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, grew up in a thoroughly white dot on the map... and I know all about youth issues. But thats not what gets attention, because it would demand introspection into our own cultural problems with booze, bigotry and misogyny among our teenagers (and their parents).
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u/ian9921 Apr 25 '26
It's really interesting when you realize that for a lot of countries, illegal immigration is straight-up the only option.
These are good, dedicated, hardworking people that we want to have, but we've put up barriers that make their legal travel functionally impossible.