why are europeans so racist to immigrants when they loted and plundered non whites?
i mena, they're only rich because they stole and raped africa, south ameirca and asia. what right do they have to demand assimilation in their countriues? i mean, as long as immigratsnm learn their language, respect their laws, etcv, what right do they have to tell us to become "a part of their society?" I'm east indian buddhist and i want to live in westenrn maybe eastern europe for a while, make money, and move to new zea;and. but at the same time, when i live in euripe, i'll learn their languagem laws, etc, but i don't want to intermigle with europeans, i only want to marry other indian/nepalese buddhists, and want to hang around in my ethnic ghettos too. what's wrong in that? i think this is the best thing for me. why are you europeans against that? i think everyone should keep to their own kind, dont you? please some europeans tell me. i dare you to challenge me on this and tell me why you're against it when ou've had an ugly past and didn't assimilate with us during colonialism by the way, jews live in europe, and they dont often allow their kids to marry with non jews. if they can do it, then why shouldn't we asians/buddhsits/muslims? i wud never mary a european guy, never in my life. i'll respect euriopean culture, but never marry or becoemn fully part of it. what's wrong with multiculturalism? please i hope some europeans do tell me what they think of this. i challenge you! i dare you. why are europeans making all immigrants assimilate when it's mostly a muslim issue. why do us buddhsits also have to do the same because of them? also, jews are also clan like, so why not buddhists? we shud keep to ou own kind, no? i only want a nepali guy, not european. why are many europeans sayign i shud sdtay in my own country if i want that? i dont mind respecting their laws/customs, and talking and beoign nice to europeans, but the point it, why are they against people like me, who simultaneously want to stick to my own ghettos? who are they to tell me what to do? i dont mind being friends with europeans, but i still want to keep in my ethnic ghettos is that okaY? i dont want to assimilate in european society at all. they can't make m e!
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If you want to keep to your own kind, why don't you live in your own country India? That would be a perfect place for you to a) not have to learn the language, b) not have to learn the laws, and c) and automatically assimilate into the society. Marriage is a choice in most countries in the world, if you want to marry a indian/nepalese that's your prerogative. And frankly if you lived in India you probably wouldn't have a choice, it would have to be indian or nepalese AND your parents would have probably done an arranged marriage. I'm not saying it's wrong but if you are arguing for the freedom to chose who you want to marry, isn't that hypocritical? You obviously have no idea how economics or manufacturing occurs. Given a lot of the resources that Europe manufactures is from other countries (africa, south america, asia, etc) however realize that those are RAW MATERIALS and need to be manufactured into the usable materials we use now adays. If those countries you mentioned before had the capability or the technology to manufacture their own products they would not have to send it to Europe or the US. Lastly, it's extremely hypocritical for you to say how they are only rich because they raped other countries. You are now working there in Europe to get some of the very same money you see as being raped and pillaged off of other countries. What does that make you an accomplice to the very crime that you are complaining about? Yes. I don't think people should keep to their own kind, in fact that's completely a racist statement. We are all from the human race regardless of your slanted perspective on the matter. "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. " Gandhi You are confusing two seperate issues, if you validate the fact that Jews do it to. First off not all Jews marry Jews. Second Jews are a minority in Europe. Lastly, I did challenge you and frankly I'm not impressed by your arguments they just prove you ignorance and the slanted racist perspective that you have. There's nothing wrong with multiculturalism within itself though realize institutionalized racism can be derived from that. Think South Africa and Apartheid being a perfect example. The most important thing about multiculturalism is the fact that they are seperate but EQUAL. As we've seen in history it's not always equal, and by seperating aka segregation you help reinforce the inequities. To finish it off marry who you want. I don't restrict myself on any race/nationality, love has no boundaries. However with that being said I know one thing for certain I may marry or date an Indian girl but it would never ever be you.
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Actually I think most people will agree with you (I am white if that counts for anything?) I noticed that you still believe you should learn the language and respect the laws of that country. Illegal immigrants do not do those things. That's why we want them out.
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The beneficiaries of Empire weren't the ordinary people of Europe who in many cases were mainly the cannon fodder of Empire. The ruling classes who exploited other peoples are the same ruling classes who are encouraging and enabling mass immigration. Once again it is happening at the long term expense of the poor of all countries- for the long term gain of the ruling elite. Immigration is in fact a continuation of imperialism in another guise.
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Why, if you have so much problems with european mentality, don´t you study and "make money" in your own country?
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Its precisely the fact that they don,t respect our laws and learn our language and integrate with the rest of society that some people have a problem with some immigrants If you think that people should keep to their own and not intermingle then maybe you should stay in eastern India. The fact that it didn't happen in 1874 or what ever is not the point, stop living in the past and become part of the global community, this means integration and acceptance.
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I agree with you, they are rich because they stole whole of african diamonds( If they had those diamonds - Africa will be the richest country in the world-there will be no civil war or poverty in Afcia) and ofcourse they stole whole of India(but they left some good things like railways,education etc). Some people say 'past is past' but I hate to see the same mentality of treating Asians as a secondary citizens.
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Making generalisations about an entire continent is a little harsh, verging on racism too, by the way. Not all Eropeans are racist at all - I for one welcome constructive immigration and in fact Britain wouldn't be half the place it is today if we hadn't been invaded for 500 years solid and then had immigration for another 200. It is important to try and assimilate a country's culture when you decide to make it your home for lots of reasons. Staying in small isolated groups within a culture and not making any attempts to become more involved in your surrounding can and often does lead to resentment that can spiral into dislike, racial hatred and sometimes violence. This isn't a good state of affairs for anyone and should be avoided - embracing the culture of your new home nation is a good way to do that, and if you love your religion and your own ways and traditions, they won't be destroyed just because you learn to speak English or socialise with white people.
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Don't worry about history! Get rich. People will respect for who you are!
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First off, the fact that it's their own country gives them the right to demand assimilation. Why would you want to live in another country and remain separate from the general population of that country. It makes no sense. Multiculutralism is itself discriminatory. It is also al oad of poop... Who should keep to themselves? The French with the French? Muslims with muslims? What about French muslims? Stick them in their own space because they are different from everyone else? If you move to europe but don't want to intermingle with europeans you are only strengthening the european reason for racism against you. By setting yourself apart you will be discriminating against those people you want to employ you. If that is what you plan, EXPECT discrimination in return. This has to be one of the most racist questions I have seen. You can most certainly marry who you want, live wher you want and how you want, but you must also be ready to accept the consequences of your choices, which you do not seem to want to do. As far as the european looting and plundering......they looted and plundered each other, then moved on to the rest of the world. Realize also the the "colonization" of India was really the wealthy in India selling out the population. India was "conquered" by the East India Company, not the British government. The army of the East India Company was largely Indian commanded be a few British officers. India sold itself out. Don't blame just the "white europeans", blame your own weak greedy leaders who looted and plundered their own people.
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Well, judging from your expressed opinion, I'd say you will not have much fun in Europe. You will say, probably, that you don't want to have fun, you want to earn money and than go back... no, wait, you don't want to go back. You want to go to New Zealand. Are you planing on staying in your "own" culture and not intermingle with people from New Zealand later on? What if you marry an Indian guy and go to New Zealand? Will you not allow your children to play with kids from non-buddhist families? How about school trips? Summer camps? Birthday parties? Physical education? Are you really willing to have your children grow up blinded by what only can be called your narrow-mindedness? Don't think I haven't had contact with Buddhists. I've shared an apartement with a buddhist girl for a year and am still freinds with her. I have nothing against her religion, beliefs, traditions or way of clothing/living/ or diet. At the same time, I've learned a lot about her culture and she learned a lot about my culture. I also have a lot of friends from other countries with different religions. I have friends from the U.S, from Turkey, Poland, Mexico, Greece, Macedonia, Russia and I love them all and if I don't understand something about their way of living, I ASK them. What upsets me, though, is that communication is always a two-way street. If people live in their "ghettos", as you so charmingly put it, they will have no reason and no need to talk in the language of the country they stay in, thus children will start school and not be able to understand their teachers and their classmates, keeping the whole class behind scedule in learning, especially if they live in "Ghettos", as every part of town has a school, and thus "Ghetto schools" suddenly happen, where often 80% or more of students are of an immigrant background. Often no learning is done there anymore because teachers can't communicate with their students. So the native parents take their kids out of that school and rather pay for sending their kids to other schools out of fear that they are held back from finding work or going to university, so the percentage of non-native speakers in those "ghetto-schools" increases even further. In a lot of towns you can also see that the immigrants have badly paid jobs or live on wellfare and are thus unable to support their children much, in a society where cool brands and new technology is a status symbol ( not that I think that is a very good thing, but unfortunately that's the way it is) and they are bullied in school for not having the coolest new mobile phone or the "in" sneakers, and those kids often solve their problems by stealing from shops or robbing other people, often also taking these things away by violence from classmates. Also, if people are raising kids in a foreing country and plan on staying there, shouldn't it be best for the kids to actually be able to take full advantage of all the opportunities they are given? If they don't understand the language and the culture they live in, they will have problems when they want to get a job later on. Who will give people a job when the are not able to communicate with them? Oftern you also run into the problem that if the money-maker of the familiy goes away, dies, has something happen to him, whole families are completely helpless and on top of getting wellfare, getting rent-money, getting all the other things that european countries provide for people who have financial problems, the office also needs to pay a translater. Not only for meetings with the office, but for going to the doctor, going to school appintments, going to Kindergarden and so on and so on and so on. And I'm not talking about one single case, I am talking about one small city of 28,000 people having to pay 7 translators for Russian, Polish, Ukrainien, Turkish... Can you imagine what that costs? If one small city needs 7 translators alone for their wellfare departement, what will the city of Berlin spend on translators? And on crime prevention programs? And on working hours for crime solving? Did you know that there were at least 5 "honor murders" in Germany last year, were muslim (mostly teenage) males shot their sisters/cousins for going out with guys from other ethnic backgrounds, divorcing their abusive husbands or having been left by their husbands? In one case a 15 year old boy shot his 22 year old sister in the head on the street in bright daylight while she was waiting for a bus with her two year old kid. That's what I don't like. And don't get me wrong, I am not very fond of that tradition even if they wouldn't do it in Germany and only in their home countries. And there are wonderful people coming to Germany who are honest, live by the law and learn the language, but unfortunately, they are a tiny percentage of the people who come, and most often they don't want to live in the ghettos. It can't be that people come to a country because they hope to better their living standards by doing so, and than pull down the country they moved to by ignoring the rules. Take the example of Germany. We were pulled and propelled into a war almost 70 years ago by racism and poor economy. After the war, the cities were dead, most young men were dead, the country lay in ruin. In 60 years, people have built a state with beautiful architeture, secure living, clean streets, a low rate of child mortality, good hygene and good medical standards. We are exporting the most goods in the world. We have a very generous welfare plan. But ever since people from eastern Eurpe have poured in after the wall fell, people who never paid into the welfare plan are now taking money out of it. Taxes are rising, prices are rising, healthcare is getting more expensive. Well-paid jobs are getting less and less. People who have jobs are getting frustrated because they have to work long hours, sometimes filling three jobs with only two people and not getting paid accordingly, they need the jobs to be able to support their families, they can't quit. And than they are coming out of ther offices, and their family car was stolen by someone, they get the police, they find out who it was. They can't communicate with him. The state pays an attourney for the thief. And a translator. For every time the thief has to talk to his attorney. They find out he's guilty, but he can't pay the fine, because our thief is living on welfare, because he couldn't get a job. Because he's not talking the language. So than the judge says: "we'll lock him up". In a German prison. On cost of the German people. which is even more expensive than keeping him on wellfare. But: our thief is a nice one. He flees the country and goes back to where he came from, coming back two motnhs later with a different name. Happens thousands of times every year. Whereas, our German car owner has to pay for: his attorney, the towing of the car from where they found it to the police grounds, for the keeping on police grounds and for all the paperwork that is needed to get him back his own car. By the time he paid all of that, he can likely sell his car to go out of this situation even. It's not that we don't like people from other countries and other cultures. But how can we not get frustrated, if so many people get money from the state, and we, as the tax-payers, are slowly getting overtaxed by what is happening to this country and everyday, there are more people coming in, telling us they don't want anything to do with our culture and us, they just want to take a job and make money and leave, telling us that we are racists?
