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The way Europeans discuss immigration and their immigration issues, seems different enough from the US I can't really add much but someone from Finland and England can relate; Acajack can though.
Pretty simple distinction is that Europe has been much more about asylum and non-Judeo/Christian immigration, whereas the US has primarily taken immigration from Catholics for working purposes in recent decades. Therefore I think the divides in the US are more of cosmetic reasons (skin color), whereas over here it's very deep cultural divides that people can't overcome. I'm sure many of those I'd consider unintegrated would've loved to in the first place but got sucked into this ghetto culture and the anti-society vibes in there because they had nowhere else to live when they came.
There's also a massive divide in success rate between Muslim immigrants from the Balkans & Lebanon and the rest of the Muslim populace when it comes to actual integration and cultural affiliation. It comes down to secular culture vs deeply religious culture. Bosnia is no less unsecular than somewhere like the Carolinas or Georgia. Possible less so than Alabama for example!
Yeah its annoying when you go to Spain and they cant speak English, its like a third world country. Boke.
Worst part is, there's lots of people here who are that way. Like if locals should adjust to them and not the other way around.
I asked one of my neighbors who went to Mexico City (an older white man, probably about 65-70 years old) how it was and his response was "I didn't like it, not many spoke English".
And then I asked him if we would speak Spanish to Latin tourists here and his response was "no, they should learn English".
Pretty simple distinction is that Europe has been much more about asylum and non-Judeo/Christian immigration, whereas the US has primarily taken immigration from Catholics for working purposes in recent decades. Therefore I think the divides in the US are more of cosmetic reasons (skin color), whereas over here it's very deep cultural divides that people can't overcome. I'm sure many of those I'd consider unintegrated would've loved to in the first place but got sucked into this ghetto culture and the anti-society vibes in there because they had nowhere else to live when they came.
There's also a massive divide in success rate between Muslim immigrants from the Balkans & Lebanon and the rest of the Muslim populace when it comes to actual integration and cultural affiliation. It comes down to secular culture vs deeply religious culture. Bosnia is no less unsecular than somewhere like the Carolinas or Georgia. Possible less so than Alabama for example!
Yeah, this seems to be the major divide. If you look at many anti-immigrant parties in Europe, they are usually against 'third world' immigration rather than immigration in general. In the UK that's not the case, since anti-immigrant parties here dislike immigration in general, whether it's from Pakistan or Poland. For them it's mostly about the strains immigration causes on housing, education and healthcare, as well as job competition pushing down wages for low income earners - or at least, this is the facade they use.
Finally, the UK is better than the Nordics on something.
If that's true probably a higher average speaking English than of the populace here being able to speak Swedish. I think 90 % have it as mother tongue, but probably 3-4 % out of the 25 % of foreign near descent don't speak it all. Very worrying sign of a failed integration model. Thing is though that stats like that are forbidden to produce in Sweden, it'd be too embarrassing for successive governments would those results leak...
Doesn't your part of Florida have lots of non-English speakers?
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