[candiodari]

Integration is the central story every government in Europe is preaching. It doesn't seem to be happening (and where it does, not nearly fast enough to matter).

Now you might say "so they don't have your culture, big deal". No, that's not what I mean.

I mean middle eastern sections in big european cities have unemployment rates that are only a little better than middle eastern cities, and that simply won't work. Effectively, with the numbers as they are, immigrants are largely a negative influence, purely economically speaking: they're a drag rather than a gain.

Needless to say, given the political climate shift currently going through Europe, nobody likes reporting this, as it seems rather unlikely to improve anything.

[uoaei]

Europe doesn't quite know what to do with the massive influx of new faces. Governments say 'integration' but they shove them off into corners of the city because they can't afford to take the city housing from the established population.

America was literally built by people showing up and carving out a life for themselves. There is something about the culture that offers more room for that to happen once you arrive.

[ElectricalPast]

First - I said nothing about integration.

But if we're going down that road, Second - America has been absorbing and integrating millions of people throughout its history and has only been the wealthier for it.