Posted on 01/07/2016 12:55:51 AM PST by GonzoII
If you look at the Africans coming out of the western end of Africa (Ghana, Togo, Nigeria) and from Eritrea...they are mostly non-Muslims. I don’t think I’d go and label them Christians in some sweeping fashion...but the African crowd appearing in Germany aren’t Muslim to any significant degree.
It’s also the distinctive problem of talking about Syrians....because a number of the Syrians who showed up in Germany are Christian (not an overwhelming number I agree), and you have to do some balanced thinking when looking at the forty-odd issues in this whole immigration mess.
The general explanation given....at least by the Merkel supporters and state-run news media goes along two lines of acceptance.
First, Germany’s birth-rate is declining. A number of experts (last year....some German university did a big research project over it)...now agree that within twenty-five years, if nothing happens to change things, the eighty-million in population today will shrink to around 65-million. There’s some thinking that being open on refugees and immigrants would help to shift the rate problem over the next two decades.
You and I can probably agree that you should ask how and why the rate shift came about, and there’d be a two-hour discussion how Germany arrived at this lesser rate. Basically, they can’t fix this birth-rate issue.
The second part of this deal is simply a false sense of tolerance. Some perceived guilt-trip left over from WW II and how you need to be open and accepting of multiculturalism.
I would say that forty-percent of German society no longer buys off on that false tolerance sense. They’ve either gone to a very anti-immigrant attitude or beginning to ask stupid questions that the news media (state-run of course) can’t answer, and politicians really don’t want to discuss.
The national election isn’t till November of 2017....with Merkel not running. A whole of things can happen by then.
Meanwhile....here in March of 2016....there are three German state elections. Normally, they wouldn’t matter. Folks kinda believe that frustrations will spill over and people will cross a line to vote in a radical way....against Merkel’s party and the SPD party as well. It doesn’t change much within Berlin....but if right-wing elements (AfD for example as a party) were to take strong positions in voting (say above 15-to-20 percent)....then it’d say there is no confidence in the current strategy and trigger some radical changes.
The answer is to get German messrs. H&K, Sig, Sauer, Mauser involved.
>>If you look at the Africans coming out of the western end of Africa (Ghana, Togo, Nigeria) and from Eritrea...they are mostly non-Muslims. I don’t think I’d go and label them Christians in some sweeping fashion...but the African crowd appearing in Germany aren’t Muslim to any significant degree.
The interviews I’ve seen with Germans show them referring to everyone from Africa (both sides of the Sahara) as Africans or Southerners. They don’t seem to make a distinction between North Africa, west Africa, or east Africa.
Eritreans...if you bring up the topic with a German....have the golden ticket compared to the other states or regions. Higher chance of visa approval....for whatever reason. The average German never asks about visa approval numbers....but there’s a different average for each culture/state.
It’s one of those things that the German state-run news media doesn’t harp on much or talk about.
First picture at link shows a woman holding a sign that reads “Show respect & nice sex” with a cute little heart in the corner...
They STILL don’t get it.
If Germany needs immigrants for economic growth it doesn’t make any sense to let in illiterate people that will only be a welfare problem for years. That’s why so many are attracted to Germany, the generous welfare benefits, isn’t it?
Compared to the French 68'ers, our 68'ers were Reagan Conservatives, the French ones were flat out Maoists, and eventually they became the leaders of French society.
If a country needs immigrants, welcome the Filipino’s. They are Christian, many are educated, they want to leave the Phillipines, and are hardworking.
I think three factors played into this. First, Germany was the only European country where the leadership and image was pro-immigration. You really don’t want to show up in Greece or Italy and try to play this game out. Second, Germany was enthusiastic about college-educated refugees, which Syria has more than people think (lot of them went to Russian universities). Syria put more money into education than most other countries in the region. Third....everyone has this image of Germany being the land of milk and honey. It’s like some whacked out version of Disney-Deutschland, and they all want to live in some fantasy like that.
The other side of this....once you get here and get the stupid visa, and get through job-training and arrive at the first real job....then you look at the taxes they take out and the cost of health care insurance....then you just stand there in shock at the grocery or gas station.....in disbelief because there is practically nothing left from your beginner-job paycheck.
How high is your health insurance tax? Don’t you still have a solidarity tax? I had a dental hygienist that moved here from Germany and he was telling me the cost of living was much higher there and the apartments and appliances were small compared to here.
Health insurance runs around 14.5 percent of your pay, which half you pay for, and the other half is by your company/boss. This gets you into a bucket and you choose from twenty-odd policies that each has the minimum, but each has variety.
The Solidarity Tax is supposed to end in 2019 (law says it must end). Just about every single German politician is dreaming up some variation to extend or convert it to a permanent deal. The national election at the end of 2017 will have this as one of the top five topics.
The cost of living is a debatable thing. You can live cheaply, but you have to think and plan around that lifestyle. A guy will dream up some big renovation plan for his bathroom, and then find some guy who will do the work on weekends....under the table....with no taxes involved, but no guarantee either on the quality of work.
Thank you for your commentary of the situation over there.
Where are you located?
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Wiesbaden region.
Thanks. I always appreciate hearing from people living in other countries about what life is like there. Stuff you don’t get on the news.
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