"Ah, 'youth,'" as Mark Steyn would say.
RT News reports on the fifth straight night of rioting in Stockholm. I got to paragraph 21 before the article identified the "youths" or "youth gangs" or "rampaging teenagers" as "Young Muslims." But at that point, at least, the article got down to basics:
“The problem is not from the Swedish government or from the Swedish people,” the editor in chief of Dispatch International said. “The last 20 years or so, we have seen so many immigrants coming to Sweden that really don’t like Sweden. They do not want to integrate, they do not want to live in [Swedish] society: Working, paying taxes and so on."
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“The people come here now because they know that Sweden will give them money for nothing. They don’t have to work, they don’t have to pay taxes – they can just stay here and get a lot of money. That is really a problem,” added [Swedish journalist Ingrid Carlqvist].
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"It’s always the same problem. There is a massive refusal by Muslim youngsters of the basics of Western society... and they take any excuse whatsoever to show that with violence – that is where the problem is,” [said Gerolf Annemans, the parliamentary leader of a Belgian far-right nationalist political party].
In related news, opinion-makers struggle to identify the mysterious motivation of youths who beheaded a British soldier this week while screaming Islamofascist slogans. We're going to put the same team on it that's spent the last few months or years struggling to decipher the impenetrable motives of the Fort Hood shooter and those guys who got so upset by a video in Benghazi.
"You get what you pay for" is generally viewed as advising people that if they don't spend money, they're going to get inferior goods or services. But in this case it reminds us that if you DO pay for something, that something is what you're going to get. If you pay people to not work, you're going to get people who don't work and have plenty of time on their hands to make trouble.
ReplyDeleteEspecially since in the private world you run up against a limit of how much money you can spend, so you're only going to get so much of whatever you're buying. In this case, you have to pay anyone who decides to stop working, so there's no apparent limit on how many people can do so. There's a practical limit, but by that time the non-workers outnumber the workers and disaster ensues.
Unfortunately, the 19th century 'blut und volk' nationalism basically has completely ruined many of these countries as far as accepting any immigrants--One of the articles I read mentioned an Ethiopian born woman who has lived in Sweden for decades and is a citizen, who basically said, "It doesn't matter what I do, I will never be accepted as Swedish."
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, I think there is much truth in Eric's comment. Alas, I also fear that the description in the post of immigrants who are ungrateful, don't desire to integrate, and don't really care to feel like members of that society within which they live has become typical here too. The immigrants around me aren't like the ones I grew up around (and I grew up around plenty). They keep the Spanish accents in their names (forget about anglicizing them), stay immersed in Spanish language all day (Radio, T.V., patronize stores in communities where you can get by with no English whatsoever), and really only aim to make enough money to eventually retire back to Mexico (or Guatemala, or wherever) and live comfortably. When I was a kid, they came here to be American, and did just that. I never saw them as any less American than I am. Today, I'm never really sure about many of them, whether or not they really feel American, of if they even desire to be American.
ReplyDeleteWhat to do? If we can't convince our fellow Americans that our culture is real and needs to be protected and propagated (not this 'all cultures are equal' crap), we'll eventually be as hosed as the Europeans.
Rome used to solve that problem by keeping people in their place, and only if they served a military benefit would they be given integration rights.
ReplyDeleteThis tends to keep the "nasty foreigners over there" people happy as well as the "I want to be part of the meta-nation" group happy as well.
Up until Rome stopped paying their legions anything and started having orgy and murder fests for entertainment. Things went downhill from there. Even though some good Emperors came to power, they could not undue 200-400 years of decadence.
The immigrants are correct to keep their cultural traditions. They are far more worthy and full of virtue, than what the Left would make of them.
ReplyDeleteLet's see. Traditional class based Indian and Mexican cultures or Hollywood sex parties, slave porn industries, corrupt power politicians that come from old and new white guy lineages that keep everybody else of color in the mud... which do you think people from afar would prefer to belong to.
Wasn't it determined that the guys in Benghazi weren't motivated by a video, but had another agenda entirely?
ReplyDeleteDdr -- You don't mean to suggest that we should doubt the official version? That way lies anarchy!
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