Summary: German’s newspapers reveal the status of the Left’s great experiment with open borders, progress that a few years ago was said to be impossible. See at the end an extraordinarily clear statement of the Left’s reasons for opening the borders – and what they hope to gain.
A high culture takes centuries to build, but can be erased in a few decades, as we may see soon in Europe. A few years ago, liberals mocked conservatives who warned that in a generation or two the people in many European nations would become minorities in their own nations. Now that conservatives have been proven right, liberals acknowledging it – and applauding the success of their experiment.
And it is a bold experiment, the largest since the Left’s last big one – communism. Europe has opened its borders, producing a new underclass, with a quite foreign culture. Of course, no party ran on the platform of massive immigration to replace Germans in their own nation. No consent of Germany’s people, just a massive propaganda barrage.
These articles provide status reports from Germany. They describe the numbers, which is a step forward from the news blackout that has been in place until now. The figures in these articles do not show the impact of Merkel’s opening German’s borders to migrants from failed, largely Islamic, states. Perhaps next year German’s journalists will discuss how German’s society is changing.
“Half of the Frankfurt has migrant background”
In the Frankfurter Rundschau, 26 June 2017.
“The city of Frankfurt has long been celebrating its diversity. For the first time, statistics show that more than half of the urban population has a so-called migrant background. …According to registration data from 2015, the proportion of immigrant populations is 51.2%. In this case, these include people with non-German nationality as well as Germans who were born abroad and minors whose parents have immigrated. A slightly lower value of almost 45% with a migrant background can be found in the data from the microcensus. …
“‘The trend is clear,’ Weber emphasized: ‘We are a city without a majority.’ Frankfurt is made up of ‘more or less large minorities’ and is becoming ever more diverse. …The largest group are still Turks. However, the majority of the foreign city population comes from EU countries (61.3%). In addition, the vast majority have a legal and “solidified” residence status, Weber pointed out. Only 0.7% of the foreigners are obliged to leave the country. Another 2.8% have no right of residence or unexplained status. …
“Major discrepancies are evident, for example, in income distribution. Almost half of the workforce with a migrant background is below their income level or at the poverty line. …At the same time, Frankfurt citizens with a migrant background are more frequently affected by unemployment.”
“Number of people with a migrant background increases significantly”
In Die Welt., 8 January 2018.
“Last year, 19.3 million women, men and children with foreign roots lived in the Federal Republic. That’s 4.4% more than the year before. The share of the total population was thus 23.6%. …According to the Federal Statistical Office, a person has a migration background if he or a parent was not born with German citizenship. …
“Largest groups among the 19.3 million are people with Turkish roots (2.8 million), with Polish (2.1 million), Russian (1.4 million), Kazakh (1.2 million) and Romanian (0, 9 million) roots. Since 2017, the microcensus has collected the language spoken predominantly in the household. Of 24 million multi-person households in Germany, 2.5 million predominantly do not speak German. In these households, Turkish (17%), Russian (15%), Polish or Arabic (8% and 7% respectively) are the most commonly spoken.”
“Germany is gaining as many inhabitants over migration as through births”
By Marcel Leubecher (political editor) in Die Welt, 15 October 2018.
Got to love how they bury the lede in the very last line of the story!
“While the immigration of foreigners is widely discussed, the emigration of Germans aroused little attention. In the year 2017 again about 249,000 Germans left the country permanently, as the Federal Statistical Office announced on Monday. At the same time, 167,000 Germans moved to the Federal Republic. The bottom line was a so-called negative migration balance of 82,000 Germans {as there has been since 2005}. …
“Particularly significant is the strong emigration against the background that also the deaths have long outnumbered the births . The migration loss of 217,000 Germans in the past two years and the more than 1.7 million deceased citizens were offset by only 1.2 million births of mothers with German citizenship. In other words, Germany has lost more than 700,000 citizens in just two years.
“However, this is more than offset by strong immigration . As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, almost 1.4 million foreigners emigrated in 2017 and 885,000. In the balance of additions and departures, this results in a migration surplus of 499,000 foreigners in 2017, compared to 635,000 in the previous year.
“Thus, in the past two years, Germany’s society has gained about as many new members from migration as through births of mothers of German nationality. Due to the strong international immigration – the Federal Republic has been receiving more immigrants since the 1960s than the classic US immigration country – the country is rapidly becoming a migrant society. According to the Federal Statistical Office, 42% of those under the age of six already have a migration background in West Germany.”
Trust us! This time our experiment will work.
Why have Europe’s elites opened their borders?
The Right wants to boost the number of workers, pushing down benefits and wages, and crushing the protections they have achieved. Why does the Left support open borders? They are quite open about the answer. As usual with Lefts, there is no mention of consulting the people of Europe about this project – let alone getting their consent.
Super-diversity. A new perspective on integration.
By Maurice Crul, Jens Schneider,
and Frans Lelie (2013).
Review by Cord Aschenbrenner in Stuttgarter Zeitung, 27 March 2016. Note how he buries the lede in the last sentence.
“Soon Frankfurt , Augsburg and Stuttgart will fare: they will lose their German “majority society”. In other words, the ethnic German population will become one of several minorities. The authors leave no doubt that they consider this development as irrevocable as desirable – because it offers great opportunities for the emergence of more “social justice”, as they write: namely, if the previous majority society loses its dominant positions …. Education and social background, in the old German context, could dissolve as well. …
“Very important are ‘interethnic friendships’, as the authors emphasize. They will not be ordained, but in a willing society they will surrender.”
An excerpt from the book describing the Leftist dream of the result of opened borders. Migrants are shock troops to destroy western culture and build the new Leftist order!
“Multiculturalism has been discredited as an idea, while at the same time, multi-ethnic cities have become a reality everywhere. It is time for what the Dutch sociologist Justus Uitermark coined a ‘post-multi-cultural strategy’ (Nicholls and Uitermark 2013). A new vision of integration, offering an alternative to the policy of exclusion advocated by the right-wing populists and to the tired old demands for migrants and their children to assimilate.
“Our new vision is based on the emancipation of the second generation (the children born in Europe to first generation migrants). We will show that socially successful young people from this second generation represent the most progressive forces within their own communities. It is they who are tackling the themes that have brought multiculturalism under attack: gender equality and the right to decide about your own sexuality. It is they who are fighting for the rights of girls to continue their education, and they are breaking down the obstacles that have prevented women from entering the employment market. They demand the freedom to choose their life partner and the right to decide about their own sexuality. …
“Diversity will become the new norm. This will require one of the largest psychological shifts of our time.”
How nice for the German people, that they must make a psychological shift in order to live in their own land.
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