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In reply to the discussion: Europe - migrants - Cologne attacks - The comments section on this Guardian article... [View all]scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)So my memories are rather vague - plus I'm old.
But, yeah, I thought it was a great comment.
I've thought from the very beginning that the EU should have been funding food and shelter for the refugees in place, rather than encouraging immigration. But it seems that their capitalist elites had their eyes on a fresh source of cheap labor.
It was not too long ago - a year or two, I think - that I read an article about the problem of the lack of assimilation by the Turkish migrants in Germany, who had been brought in to augment the shrinking German workforce (due to low birth rates and an aging population). The article was pointing out that even after a generation, the Turks remained in segregated enclaves, not learning the German language, and not actually assimilating into the host country's culture at all. Instead, the article pointed out, the Turks had "colonized" Germany.
So Germany ought to have known better.