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  • legitimate problems caused by immigration in Europe

    Just my opinion, but: There are no systematic ones that can’t just as plausibly be explained by anti-immigrant stances of the locals. Yes, of course, immigration also means SOME people immigrating will be bad in one way or another, but statistically significantly not more or less than the amount of bad people born in the country. Most of the problems “with immigrants” arise from a mutual escalation of people not willing to integrate. In short, and without saying which comes first:

    • immigrant does bad thing X
    • anti-immigrant people point at X and claim it’s because they are immigrants
    • some people will believe the accusations and behave more poorly towards immigrants
    • some immigrants will turn the prejudice against them into a dislike / hatred of their host country
    • immigrants do bad things
    • rinse and repeat

    Speaking for Germany, all of this is FAR outweighed by the richness that immigrants bring to our country. Germans - and I say that as a German - really needed (and still need) a lot of lessons in empathy and kind-heartedness - and we have more of that now than 50 years ago, thanks to not only evolution of society, but also thanks to immigrants from the mediterranean - Italians, Spanish, Greek and Turks. If Germany had no immigrants, I would leave this country in an instant.