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More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org)
jones_supa writes: More people in Europe are dying than are being born, according to a new report co-authored by a Texas A&M University demographer. In contrast, births exceed deaths, by significant margins, in Texas and elsewhere in the United States, with few exceptions. The researchers find that in Europe, deaths exceeded births in most of the counties of Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, as well as in Sweden and the Baltic States. Further south, natural decrease is found occurring in the majority of the counties of Greece, Portugal and Italy. More births than deaths (natural increase) is widespread in Ireland, Cyprus, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg. "Natural decrease is much more common in Europe than in the U.S because its population is older, fertility rates are lower and there are fewer women of child-bearing age," the researchers explain. "Natural decrease is a major policy concern because it drains the demographic resilience from a region diminishing its economic viability and competitiveness."
Do you actually live in Europe? Integration does not work. We have whole suburbs of "insert immigrant nationality" because they don't integrate. Even politicians have to admit that multiculturalism failed. The cultures are just too different and there are far too many at the same time.
I have, although that was more than a decade ago. The whole point of areas like that is NOT to blend but to stay amongst their culture. However I did not feel like I just entered some crime-ridden ghetto as is often the case in Europe.
Don't we need to give it at least a decade or two for that to actually be concluded? After all, Chinese/Japanese immigrants during the gold rush didn't exactly integrate either. Mexican immigrants during the 90's didn't either. Their children and grandchildren, however, did.
Integration isn't something that happens instantaneously; it takes a generation or two.
You do have a point about the issue of overwhelming influx. The Syrians would have to be divided up amongst a lot of countries -- probably all of Europe and North America would have to go in on it together. Countries with larger populations and better economies could obviously absorb more.
But that's an ideal world. The real world has plenty of xenophobic idiots voting for Trump's wall around Mexico.....
One should note that Islam won the Crusades. In the end, all the crusader kingdoms were permanently evicted from the Middle East and its surrounds. In the final act, even Constantinople finally fell (remember that the rescue of the Byzantine Empire was the original motivation for the Crusades--the whole thing was ignited by the Byzantine disaster at Manzikert, after all.)
(remember that the rescue of the Byzantine Empire was the original motivation for the Crusades--the whole thing was ignited by the Byzantine disaster at Manzikert, after all.)
Uh, the crusaders didn't protect Constantinople-- they sacked it.
It was richer, and less well defended, than the Islamic lands that they were nominally aimed at, and they wanted the loot. The crusaders were not the good guys in this portion of history.
If you want to know, why did Constantinople fall to the Moslems? The answer is, it fell because it never really recovered from being sacked by the Fourth crusade.
http://www.historytoday.com/jo...
http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/1204.html
http://www.historynet.com/fourth-crusade-conquest-of-constantinople.htm
We have that here in the US. Heck, I live right near Little Saigon.
Guess what? Moving someplace with a weird language and weird customs and weird food can be tough. My roommate's family came over from Vietnam in the 1990s. Their english language skills weren't great and Little Saigon offered them places to go and things to do which were comfortable. While they have assimilated to a degree, they still tend to go to Little Saigon for restaurants (though they'll shop elsewhere for other things).
Their kids, on the other hand? For the most part, they're "assimilated." They speak english, enjoy "American" food, enjoy the culture, and barely speak the native language.
So, yes, these "immigrant" neighborhoods will grow because there are more immigrants coming in who need that support. Those immigrants will meet people, fall in love, have kids, and those kids will have more experience with the native culture than that of their parents. Give it a generation or two.
What? Did you read anything about the conquests of muhammed? 600+ years before any famous Khan was around, Islam was plenty violent already. Even in a brutal time, he would top off most the lot.
The melting pot concept is stupid, it just doesn't work to expect immigrants to...
It works, just over longer time frames than you are expecting.
I have lived in Amsterdam, a city with many immigrants, most of them muslims, for all my live. I've visited many European cites as well as as a few in North America and Asia. The only time I ever had the feeling of being in crime-ridden ghetto was in downtown Los Angeles.
the one that doesn't believe in killing and raping the infidels is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers.
We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
the one that believes in not killing homo sexuals is better.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/...
...on Friday's Republican campaign event, showing videos of Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Mike Huckabee engaging in question-and-answer sessions with extremist pastor Kevin Swanson, who then went on to say that he would smear cow dung over his body to protest a gay couple's wedding and urged the government to execute gays in the future if they don't repent.
the one that believes woman are equal to men is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That last one is a longer read.
But it includes such gems as "legitimate rape", sexual assaults in the military excused as "hormone level created by nature" and last but not least - rape as god's will.
P.S. Dear, right-wing, moderators... we can play this game of you trying to ignore facts while calling pointing out such facts trolling until you run out of mod points or I run out of copy/paste.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens