[extropy-chat] Re: EU: What is going wrong?

[Christian Weisgerber]

Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> > EU officials implore new immigrants to learn 'European values'... 
> 
> I don't think the EU officials get it.  The immigrants
> are not interested in adopting European values.  They 
> want to transform Europe to Muslim values.  They come
> as Muslim missionaries to convert the heathen.

Nonsense.

The immigrants come to make a better living for themselves.  It
shouldn't come as a surprise that many (I wish I had figures) are
from poor, rural parts of their country--obviously, if you're well
off at home why would you want to leave in the first place?--and
with that background comes religious and social conservativeness.
Now, a few of these immigrants actually refuse to abandon wholesale
their native language and culture.

I keep waiting for somebody to spin this the other way around and
bemoan the fact of immigrants losing their native culture and blindly
embracing that of their host country.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de