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by dnomad 2904 days ago
Not sure why you think the problem lies with immigrants. Particularly in Denmark where, more often than not, you find the children of recent immigrants to be very strongly integrated.

Consider the possibility that the anti-immigrant hysteria has nothing to do with immigrants. Just like the Jews in 1940s Germany what you have are countries scapegoating a well-defined minority.

What's really going on? Likely it's a potent combination of wage stagnation, rising inequality, declining social welfare, and falling birth rates [1]. Anti-immigrant bias is just a plank here. Certainly if the Danish economy was growing like it was in the 60s you would not see so much "reasonable concern" about immigrants. (No, instead, then the government was importing immigrants as fast as possible.)

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/a-surpris...