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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."
that's what the US is doing
Well off people don't reproduce as much. But as Idiocracy commented, the idiot crowd can just as well advance the gene pool. Whether we remain civilized or resort to all out tribal warfare, slavery, or feudalism, or leave the world in a choking pulluted, flooded, plague ridden morass with radioactive no-go zones humanity itself will persist. Our aspirations for a egalitarian intellectually absorbed transcendent society are less likely or stable than colonialist domination.
In terms of reproductive habits, it seems like the fast breeders evnetually win unless the elite take a cruel approach.
THat said, I think the progress of mankind has been one of elevation, peace, understanding and freedom. So clearly the cynical view is not supported by societal evolution and birth patterns to date.
On the otherhand there's this years crop of angry republicans that are not very far removed from the president of idiocracy.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
The only people that are impacted by a negative growth rate are politicians, CEOs and economists, who see a lack of growth as the end of the world.
Those that constitute the majority now will surely fade out in a few decades. That's guaranteed.
What makes it worse is that there isn't much that current governments can do about it, though the majority of the population doesn't look forward to being the minority.
This confirms one thing: Times ahead will be interesting.
Don't worry!
The entire population of Syria are already on their way to help.
There are more than enough Syrians being left in to cover up for the shortfall.
We don't actually need more people in Europe though. Giving people a decent standard of living is all that matters, it's just the old-world financial system that demands a constant supply of new people to pay for the upkeep of the non-working population. Making sure these people have a decent quality of life is not as labour intensive as making sure they get a massive pension that they can spend on importing cheap electronics from China.
and how long before the next Hitler comes to stop that?
We have too many humans on this planet already, too much trash and waste. For once we aren't reproducing like a disease. Keep it up europe
Actually, you need far less people today to produce more work than were needed 100 years ago. Many people are just plain useless for today's society. Less people is the opportunity to have less useless people, that is less angry dudes that don't have a clue of what to do with their life. Unemployment will eventually back down. Overall happiness will probably increase.
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If there is a case for life extension this is it. Seems like such a waste for a person to live ~70 years, about 20 of which they are at their peak.
love is just extroverted narcissism
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.
Except when it does. If you have a large, secular society that orients more along the lines of politics than race, culture, or religion, than over time immigrants and more importantly the children of immigrants become part of the larger society. Some people are real jerks to outsiders no matter where they are or what culture they join--the idea is over generations to try to get their kids to be more and more accepting of outsiders, to be part of the larger community.
Integration is not an experiment that succeeds or fails. It's life, and people and even entire populations change across as little as fifty years. That explains everybody's racist uncle.
"Natural decrease is a major policy concern because it drains the demographic resilience from a region diminishing its economic viability and competitiveness." What a silly argument, given that productivity and and GDP are still rising rapidly in Europe.
Automation is accelerating with AI finally becoming a real thing. Economic output is rising in absolute terms and on a per-person basis. What this should mean is a rising standard of living. But in the US all the benefits of per capita productivity are going to the "owner class". This is the stuff of revolutions.
As long as there are intelligent, healthy people who are unemployed, the birth rate has not fallen enough.
"He took a duck in the face at 250 knots." -- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
One of the problems is almost non-existent state support for new families. They do almost nothing for them, and then they say, well, since you're not having children, we need to bring more migrants in.
If you check birth rates of East European countries before 1989, you'll notice that the rates were pretty good back then. Although communism sucked in every imaginable way, one of the good things was that the state had your back when you had children.
Nowadays, if you decide to have children, your family expenses grow a lot and you lose a single monthly income at the same time. That's enough to bring a middle-class family into poverty. Note that in some European countries, you do receive a pittance for a limited time as a substitute for the lost income, but it's still a joke.
Putting the child(ren) into daycare and working is a no-go (at least here) for women, because the new democratic governments closed down all state-run daycares and the private ones are so expensive, it would cost you the whole income for using them.
I'm strongly right-wing, but this is something that needs to change radically. The only other option I see is denying state pension to people that had no children or a single child, because they provided no future tax payers to keep the pension system functioning.
5 or 10 years. Give or take.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Did Netcraft confirm this?
The problem is that the appeasement politics of leftist parties are actually pissing off lefties like me now.
Seriously. We've arrived at a point where it simply isn't manageable anymore.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Between the death of Mohammed and the time of the First Crusade, the following happened:
1. The Caliphate invaded and destroyed the Persian Empire. [Much conversion by the sword of Zoroastrians]
2. The Caliphate took control of over 50% of the Byzantine Empire. [Mass conversion by the sword of Christians]
3. The Caliphate conquered the Iberian peninsula and attempted to conquer the Merovingian Empire in modern day France.
4. All throughout that period and well into the Renaissance, Muslim pirates and raiders took huge numbers of slaves from Southern Europe and coastal territories as far as Iceland.
So no, not revenge. Just a series of efforts by the Muslim world to expand rather violently.
And after that period we have the annexation of much of Eastern Europe, Lepanto, Vienna, need I go on? Anyone who goes "oh noes, teh Crusades" about anyone other than the poor Orthodox Greeks is an ignoramus.
How the heck does that make sense? If you have many kids in such a system you're cashing in because if everyone who doesn't have kids is paying for everyone else's brats, would you be paying or receiving if you had many brats?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Too bad we have them already.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Every way, no of course not.
:)
But in some or even many ways
Think of teen pregnancies, single mothers, gun cult & subsequent number of victims, inefficient use of power generated, lack of language skills = problems communicating with or understanding of different cultures, not knowing geography outside of home county, relying on force instead of wits, lots of creationists etc, etc.
And yet, all in all very nice people in a great country with a fantastic, positive and probably unrivalled drive to make tomorrow better than today.
Now we just have to agree on what this 'better' encompasses...
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Just for the record, citing from recent news: "With 43 million people employed and fewer than 2 million unemployed, according to new data from the national statistics office, Germany’s active workforce is now more robust than it’s been for decades."
Those who cry for more babies are mostly those who'd like to hire more cheaply.
If "responsibility" leads to extinction or submission, I'll take the opposite.
Oh please! Just say it! Cultural purity and political/religious/economic supremacy.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Oops, the Ayatollah and the Grand Mufti just declared your computer an abomination and smashed it. So much for Europe.
... receiving alimony payments, and watch spouses line up for impregnation.
Japan has come right out and blamed ease of access to porn as the culprit. Men are turning to dolls, pillows, and video instead of put up with women's shit.
Modern Japanese women are just outright scary to average Japanese men. They have needs and wants and expectations and stuff. Traditional Japanese values just do not prepare men for this.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Summary: The middle class and wealthy of most modern countries are selfish and don't want to raise children because this is the me generation.
To be fair I would advise my son not to have kids for the following reason - Your kids can be taken away from you rather easily by their mom. Family courts are a joke and that joke is on men. For any man to not want kids based on the very real risk of them being taken away and you being given limited "visitation" is not being selfish but quite rational. For my daughter I'd say kids are optional but she is in a very different situation by virtue of being female.
It'll average out to 1:1 in the long run.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
(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
There will be no "next Hitler", just like there will be no "next Napoleon". Certainly Hitler was no Napoleon. Napoleon was a military genius but his famous military accomplishments (having lost very few battles despite at times tremendous odds against him) were far shorter lived than his achievement with re-writing and organizing law: the Napoleonic Code lives on today in many guises because it makes sense. Hitler was an appalling strategist, an amateur tactician at best (who got lucky a very few times), a ruthless and reckless politician who however managed to motivate a demotivated people through his obsession with national spirit and national identity - crucial for a broken people who had lost everything through a devastating war, revolt and punitive blockade and reparations.
Of course there can always be someone worse than Hitler in the future. But the times are different and the solution will therefore be different.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
What we need is the moderate middle ground between unlimited exponential growth of population, and catastrophically shrinkage of population. In the long term, we'll have to reach a level of birth rate equaling the replacement rate. The two questions are, what is that level, and how can we reach that rate without economic disruptions.
Population growth and reduction (in this case) is NOT the issue. The issue is that economies have been created and will only work based on population (and subsequent sales) growth; this is why immigration is often "used" to keep a countries population growing. As soon as sales reduce the model falls over. A re-think of the way global economies operate is what is needed.
It'll end up over here not over there this time I gather.
I will say that EU immigration is somewhat more difficult only because I don't speak the native language [....] But I don't know how one would go about fixing it.
Try learning to speak the native language.
They were flexible enough to let you in; be flexible enough to learn to fit in.
In other words, quit trying to fix *them* to suit you, and instead fix *you* to suit them.
here in America who believe in all of that. They're mostly white male Christians living in Texas and the American South.
The "culture" your referring to is mostly a byproduct of America meddling in Middle Eastern politics to prevent the spread of socialism. Iran was a secular nation until we decided we didn't like their democratically elected gov't and helped eject them. There are pictures of girls in skirts from the 50s before we stuck our nose in. Iraq was, for all of Saddam's faults, going the same route and Modernizing.
If you going to say their religion lets them do bad things that's true of Christianity in spades. Whatever horrible thing I might want to do to you today there's a line in the bible that lets me do it. Hell, you don't even need to be an Infidel. Oh, and I'll remind you that Christians are not, in fact, infidels. Atheists and pagans are.
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I used to be fairly liberal myself, but the SJW's have driven me out of the movement. As a white, heterosexual male, I no longer feel welcome. It's the same hard lesson that Bernie Sanders is learning every time he tries to have a rally anymore. Poor Bernie hasn't realized yet that you can never appease a SJW, no matter how much self-hatred you express at you own evil-white-male-heterosexualness.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The decline of native Europeans is being more than made up for by the migration of middle easterners. Nothing to worry about here.
is moving in droves there in the guise of "escaping" the middle east? Their BIRTH rates have exploded (no pun intended). It's easier to take over a geographic area, by overpopulating it with a group of outsiders. Then, come election time, they have the majority.
The real problem is that unless you want mine-fields and are prepared to gun down people en-mass, there is no effective way of stopping this. Just look at what these people are running from.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Japan can do very hi tech production lines in Japan as needed.
If price point is a consideration just open a factory in a nation like Laos, Indonesia, China, The Philippines, Cambodia with a supportive tax rate and low cost export ready infrastructure.
If the EU was having factory staff problems, build production lines in low cost nations with skilled workers, good ports and low export zone taxes.
No need to do what the EU did and totally fail with vast numbers of random people just wondering around for decades.
Filling a nation with random people with no skills hoping a few might try for advanced factory work is not the best job creation idea.
If a nation wants to really win long term, look after a nations own citizens with advanced education and learn to build factories in other low cost nations with good skilled workers if needed.
The EU is now left with huge numbers of people with no skills.
All Japan has to do to win is to fund and look after its education system to ensure it has the very best students every generation.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Racist alarmism is much more fun.
When did Islam become a race? Oh, I remember, when it became a way for the Gutmensch* to dodge any serious discussion about cultures.
*New German word of the year:
"Gutmensch" was selected because, in connection with the current refugee crisis in Germany, it defames "tolerance and helpfulness as naïve, dumb and worldly innocent, as having a helper syndrome or as moral imperialism," the jury president, linguist Nina Janich, told the press.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
The idea that under-population is some critical problem is ridiculous. I guess people will believe anything.
And now we have clear racist attitudes towards supposed "Muslims invaders" with higher birthrates somehow "extinguishing" local culture.
I don't see how that is racist, any more than feeling sad about Tibet, or the destruction of American Indian or Australian Aboriginal culture.
Let me get to some facts: 3.8% of the EU population is currently Muslim.
And rising rapidly. 10% of babies in the UK are now muslim, and Mohammed is the most common boys name in England.
The English are now a minority in London. This is the biggest change since the Normans invaded a thousand years ago.
Yet as of 2012, Hispanics and Latinos make up about 17% of the total U.S. population.
Yes, this is having a huge effect on the US. IMHO, the racial mix is the defining attribute that makes American politics different to Canadian.
The large racial minorities have shaped America's conservative attitudes to crime, guns, welfare. (I'm not saying it is a rational response.)
I suspect the US will end up a lot more like Brazil than it is now, i.e. with increasing inequity and corruption.
So who else is going to put an end to Invasion USA (apologies to Chuck Norris)? As soon as a candidate steps up that says they're going to enforce immigration laws, stop the immigration train wreck, stop the bullshit foreign wars and meddling, stop the free shit parade, and bring justice against the bankers, they'll get nearly every sane person's vote.
Except of course for the deluded twits who think it's "rayciss" to enforce immigration laws and knee-jerkedly brand that person "nazi" or "hitler", which sadly there seems to be a large horde of these days.
So you are saying there won't be a final solution?
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
If "responsibility" leads to extinction or submission, I'll take the opposite.
Well it doesn't so you don't have to worry. 'Responsibility' is very closely tied to 'Sustainability' as concepts.
Not only that, I'm no true Scotsman either.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
And now imagine how much they had to piss me off, I'm not even a white male heterosexual.
Quite seriously, SJWs manage to piss off the groups that they claim they represent, now that's something! I know quite a few "old school" feminists (you know, the kind that fought in the 70s for equality when there was REAL oppression of women) who are steaming with rage over the whole shit. They fought tooth and nail to be FINALLY considered no longer second class citizens who can walk their own way and are independent of the "help" of men, only to now see those wannabes act as if feminism means you have to be a professional victim who wants EXACTLY that: Being the poor little victim of male oppression who need handouts and freebies.
Believe me that, they are NOT happy to see their efforts in a struggle for equality ruined.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Also look where these people run to. Take a map. Find Syria. Now find Germany and Sweden (the main target countries for these people). Now ponder what's wrong with this picture.
I don't know about you, but when I'm running from something, I stop when it's safe.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
turning into Arab shit holes : ( IMO many of the comments insinuating the net result will be a higher standard of living for real Europeans are quite naive. You guys dont owe these people anything, in fact, history would suggest you adopt a very very defensive stance.
I really wouldn't mind Hispanic people the way I mind muslims. They tend not to blow themselves up. And I already speak Spanish.
If you say that all European culture is American, then you know nothing. Culture is not what you see on the TV or on your phone!
Not when there is no way to make a living at that "safe" place. And once on the move, it is far easier to keep running. Also remember that the politicos need to stop them at the outer EU border. Stopping them at the German or Swedish border makes things even worse.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
And you actually think Trump is going to do that eh? I can't recall any President that even remotely did what they said they will do while Campaigning. Well, except for giving kickbacks to their rich buddies.
Use your Brain, a real leader can't be Democrat OR Republican.
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
The final solution happens when the last living thing dies on this planet.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
GERMAN POLICE COVERING UP RAPES SO AS ‘NOT TO LEGITIMIZE CRITICS OF MASS MIGRATION’
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/16/01/14/2032213/more-people-in-europe-are-dying-than-are-being-born
Please go tell all the people being killed, and raped, to just be patient.
What makes you think radical Islam will not take over? If you knew the history of Islam, you would know what is going on.
It's not like BattleBots is ever going to stop being popular - we just had someone challenge a Japanese mecha-building firm to a goddamn duel on an aircraft carrier. I'm not sure which is more sci-fi - the thing the last guy said, or the New York Times.
If it was a problem with women in particular, I suspect that we'd see homosexual relationships at two to three times the biological rate, as every bisexual person looking for a relationship went for one with less friction. This sounds a lot like something we can test with Science!
H(null): We will see no increase in homosexual relationships close to the size of the bisexual demographic: People just don't want to deal with having a relationship due to, in spite of, or concurrent with shitty prospects, too much stress, and a corporate culture that's toxic to starting a family.
H(1): Homosexual relationships will expand to everyone who isn't constitutionally opposed to faggotry. We will likely see a tripling of homosexual relationships compared to our control group, representing the entire homosexual and bisexual demographics fleeing a toxic heterosexuality.
H(2): If we see some intermediate effect not trivially explained, we should investigate to see whether cultural condemnation of faggotry is intense enough to dissuade anyone who could have an emotionally fulfilling relationship with another of the same sex - cultural confounding effects or a mixture of motivations are likely results, but it is impossible to accurately predict which, precisely, at this point.
Maybe just me, but that reads as "BROWN SKINS AGAIN AT THE GATES OF VIENNA!!"
Contraception is paid by universal healthcare, the day after pill is sold over the counter and here in Europe we don't defund planned parenthood and we don't have Christian terrorists attacking abortion clinics.
Also our Teenagers are actually taught in school how children are made and how to prevent it.
The wish to have kids is just hormonal imbalance, your genes wants you to take on a 21 year long unpaid job to replicate itself.
No thank you, I'm good.
It could be next Hitler, but it could also be Putin. Even though invasion by Russia would be disaster and Russia is very corrupted country, with serious human right issues, social problems etc, the longer the Muslim mass movement continues, the larger and larger percentage of population will probably start see even invasion by Russia better option than European countries turning in Muslim countries. I cannot understand why Merkel and some other leading politicians are continuing this social experiment with open doors policy to mass movement, that will turn European countries into ruins -- and not just their own countries.
If it was a problem with women in particular, I suspect that we'd see homosexual relationships at two to three times the biological rate, as every bisexual person looking for a relationship went for one with less friction. This sounds a lot like something we can test with Science!
H(null): We will see no increase in homosexual relationships close to the size of the bisexual demographic: People just don't want to deal with having a relationship due to, in spite of, or concurrent with shitty prospects, too much stress, and a corporate culture that's toxic to starting a family.
H(1): Homosexual relationships will expand to everyone who isn't constitutionally opposed to faggotry. We will likely see a tripling of homosexual relationships compared to our control group, representing the entire homosexual and bisexual demographics fleeing a toxic heterosexuality.
H(2): If we see some intermediate effect not trivially explained, we should investigate to see whether cultural condemnation of faggotry is intense enough to dissuade anyone who could have an emotionally fulfilling relationship with another of the same sex - cultural confounding effects or a mixture of motivations are likely results, but it is impossible to accurately predict which, precisely, at this point.
True, I guess the easy access to porn, lack of stigma attached to use of dolls (eg extremely realistic sex dolls representing children) or other male sex toys could just be hiding a general lack of interest in sexual relationships with actual human beings of either gender...
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
This article reads that we must procreate to preserve economic viability and competitiveness.
"My dear, it is time to tell you the truth. The reason you were born is not because daddy loves mummy but because we want our nation to stay competitive and economically viable. Love, your economically stable parents & your government"
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
Mussolini is actually a much better comparison to Trump.
Examine even your most deeply held beliefs. Nobody is always right.
The EU birthrate has been below replacement rate for at least 10 years, if not twice that.
The usual suspects:
1. Birth control
2. The cost of raising children.
The unmentioned one: overpopulation. (I mean, you want to raise too many kids, like those sickos the Duggars? Fine... then don't come crying to me about the cost of housing, the cost of food (all the local farms forced out by developers building overpriced crap), and that you can't find a parking space.
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Let's put it this way: I don't want to take any chances, so let's not elect Trump, ok?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
"Of course there can always be someone worse than Hitler "
Hey, I thought that was Bush!
Much of the developed world falls into that category. Most of these countries maintain or grow populations through immigration.
history shows you are just whistling dixie, of course their will be another Hitler (dictator of conquest using genocide/scapegoat of minority). We've already had several Hitler types after WW II, too bad you missed them, at least two are operating right now
Oh please. My point was simply that there is tons of racism on Slashdot. Because of the whole denial thing.
And your answer?
"Muslims blow themselves up"
Dude, wtf?
There is no such thing as race anyways. Going by your definition that racism has to be about race, racism doesn't exist.
So you are denying the whole thing. No racism exists. That is really what you are saying?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Apart from the points in this article, think about the most basic truth of racism: Racism is first and foremost about the racist, not about the target. If a racist has power over someone they are racist against at some point in time, the target may suffer. But that is a different aspect of racism. The racist has racist thoughts, a racist agenda, etc. etc. Not the Muslim or the black guys. They only experience racism when in contact with a racist. But the origin of racism is the person that is racist. Thus racism itself (not the effects) is not about the race, but about the racist.
Islamophobia and racism come from fear. Unfounded fear. A huge percentage of babies also comes from uneducated families, because educated women either have children later in life or none at all. What does that mean? Also most Europeans have very little kids. Racism and Islamophobia are a big problem for integration. Thus the fear creates the problem itself. Racism doesn't help. It hurts all sides.
> If you say that all European culture is American, then you know nothing. Culture is not what you see on the TV or on your phone!
What is culture?
And what do you spend your time doing.
I bet most of the culture you are engaging is American. I would bet a beer it is above 70%. At least.
Unfounded fear.
Your wishful thinking is unfounded, and could do with a history lesson.
Your newly redefined cry of 'RACIST!!!!' depends on a mishmash of cultural and moral relativity that I don't subscribe to. Some cultures are better than others, despite the wishes of you and your huffpo buddy. You can tell this by how people vote with their feet. Hell, why don't you tell me a list of countries you'd like to live in, or could possibly tolerate. Then maybe we can discuss what kind of culture dominates in those countries.
While you consider that, I'll give you a few quotes in this area (in retaliation for that huffpo article):
At some point someone just has to tell these kids the truth: some civilizations are better than others. But that has nothing to do with you. You are not inexorably linked to your ancestors. You can appropriate all the good insights anywhere you find them. To deny yourself goodness, truth, and beauty wherever it is, you wind up diminishing your own dignity, treating yourself as if you were no more than your color or your genes.
- Anonymous
And this one from Thomas Sowell:
These and other dramatic and heartening rises of whole peoples came from doing things that were often directly the opposite of what is being urged upon less fortunate groups in the United States today. Far from painting themselves into their own little cultural corner and celebrating their "identity," these peoples sought the knowledge and insights of other peoples more advanced than themselves in particular skills, technologies, or organizational experience. It took centuries for the English to absorb the cultural advances brought by such conquerors as the Romans and the Normans and by such immigrants as the Huguenots, Germans, Jews, and others who played a major role in developing the British economy. Their early dependence on outsiders was painfully demonstrated when the Romans pulled out of Britain in the fifth century, in order to go defend their threatened empire on the continent, and the British economy and political structure both collapsed. Yet ultimately--more than a thousand years later--the British rose to lead the world into the industrial revolution and controlled an empire containing one-fourth of the land area of the earth and one-fourth of the human race.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Curious, are there any christian terror groups actually doing anything like that right now?
You mean in USA?
Meanwhile, while they can't exactly push through laws against being gay at home, though they still try, they shift their focus where they can create such laws.
See... it's not just a local thing. God hates gays EVERYWHERE!
As for bombing and killing indiscriminately and war... How many wars was it that US is fighting this week?
After being left that as legacy from a guy who was convinced that god himself wanted him to be the president and punish the "evildoers".
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
That second link is pretty interesting, thanks. Seems like something people never really hear about.
And about evil doers doing the evil that evil doers do:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Rachel Maddow did cover that several times.
It used to be available under a group header "Uganda be kidding me" on her show's NBC site, before NBC changed the format of the site... and other things.
Now you have to search Youtube for all the videos.
And pretty quickly, these guys start popping up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You know... guys who organize National Prayer Breakfast(s) and who think that Jesus was awesome - like Hitler, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Bin Laden...
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens