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December 01, 2010

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Hattie

The elites are hugely concerned with keeping poor people out of their nice places.

dz alexander

And if you don't like that theory, he has another one --

Germans racist, says Schmidt
John Hooper, Guardian, 29 Mar 2002
http://www.obv.org.uk/reports/2002/germansracist.html

He wrote correcting this article; not racist, just xenophobic.
My favourite bit is the claim that immigrants were brought to Germany owing to war guilt.

Strahler 70

Mit extremen Beispielen kann man natürlich nach Belieben für und gegen alles argumentieren, aber Helmut Schmidt in die Nähe Sarazzins zu stellen, halte ich für falsch und übertrieben. Weder Deutschland noch ein anderes Land der Welt wird es sich leisten können, unbegrenzte Zuwanderungen zuzulassen, ohne zuvor die Frage beantwortet zu haben, wovon diese Zuwanderer denn leben sollen. Das hat erstmal gar nichts mit deren Religionen, Sitten und Gebräuchen zu tun. Sollen diese Zuwanderer sofort vollständigen Zugang zu den sozialen Sicherungssystemen erhalten, wenn sie keine Arbeit finden? Wird die Zuwanderung zu einem extrem hohen Überangebot an Arbeitskräften führen, so daß Lohndumping die Folge wäre? Ich selbst habe mal einen Arbeitsplatz verloren, weil das Arbeitsamt ständig Bewerber zu meinem Chef geschickt hat, die sich anboten, für den halben Lohn zu arbeiten, von dem wiederum die Hälfte ein Jahr lang vom Arbeitsamt subventioniert wurde. Wenn einem dann vom selben Arbeitsamt auch noch zu hören bekommt, man würde sich nicht ernsthaft um Arbeit bemühen, kann einem schon der Draht aus dem Hut springen.

Zyme

When it comes to integration of Muslims into German society, an interesting survey has been published this week, concerning the attitude of Germans towards Islam and other religions in comparison to France, Portugal, Netherlands and Denmark. Highly interesting!

In English:

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2010/dez/PM_Studie_Religioese_Vielfalt_in_Europa.html

In German:

http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article11355332/Die-Deutschen-verlangen-nach-religioeser-Homogenitaet.html

David

Interesting survey, Zyme. I definitely want to blog about this. The determining factor seems to be "frequency of contact" with Muslims, which is much lower in Germany than in the other countries surveyed.

Zyme

I'm afraid it does not seem to be so easy, as the results in Portugal show, where there is even less contact with Muslims.

Zyme

And there has been another survey published today which casts light on a different issue, namely the attitudes of the most wealthy quarter of the German population:

http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article11389451/Unter-den-Wohlhabenden-waechst-der-Hass.html

To cut it short, this study concludes that social Darwinism returns to the well earning part of the society, which consequently further alienates them from immigrants.

David

Yes, I saw the same article in Die Welt and found it quite interesting.

The survey results in Germany correlate to the Tea Party in the US - basically a white nationalist movement. Tea Partiers also tend to be more affluent (and whiter) than the US population on the whole

Strahler 70

Notizen aus der Provinz:

http://www.shz.de/nachrichten/top-thema/article//komplizen-stellen-sich-in-neumuenster.html

MugBroomo

Takk for en interessant blogg

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