Europe is finding out (as the U.S. is also finding out) that you can't wreck other people's countries and steal their resources without eventually having them show up at your doorstep. Do "pure" Europeans (especially the northern Europeans) and "pure" White Americans want to curb their "immigration problem"? Then let them live within their means. If you leave other people alone and don't enslave them, wreck their homelands or conquer them in order to steal their stuff, they won't feel any pressure to migrate to your homeland. It really is that painfully simple. When Europe participated in the wrecking of Syria, Libya and North Africa, they knew that the present crisis would be a likely outcome.
We are indeed heading toward a future in which a small minority of the world's population will no longer be able to command the lion's share of the world's resources. When that happens, at least one reason for mass migrations will go away. This is resulting in a fair amount of existential fear in many members of the privileged small minority, and the fear is being expressed as a rabid ferocity which seeks to demonize those who are different from the members of the minority. Today I found two refreshing antidotes to the demonizing voices:
- "Globalization and Terror," by Helena Norberg-Hodge, and
- "The Racialization and Nationalization of the Image of God," by Dr. Soong-Chan Rah.
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