• lemmy_99c4zb3e3@reddthat.com
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        6 months ago

        What makes one a European?

        I think we can be either more or less European; perhaps I should say that there may be more or fewer reasons for being recognized as such by others.

        1. Jus sanguinis (right of blood)
        2. Jus soli (right of soil)
        3. Christian culture (I consider myself a cultural christian, although I am an atheist)

        And why should Europe be only for Europeans?

        I don’t oppose legal immigration on a small scale. However, currently there are too many immigrants “refugees” . We need to say stop. Stop illegal immigration, stop Islam, stop criminals. And what are we currently doing? We are legalising illegal immigrants; What the heck?

        https://youtu.be/4oSHUjHziSM?t=171

    • iarigby@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      What in the world are you talking about? I haven’t heard of any European countries where migrants have more or anywhere close to equal rights to citizens, not to say about financial, employment, or welfare access. So you’re pretty much full of so much shit. There are powerful systems in place to guarantee that a company is able to sponsor a visa only when there are NO qualified candidates available from within the country, and even then the process is extremely slow as to discourage companies from doing it, and most people being considered need to have strong education and qualifications. If by migrants you are primitive enough to only be referencing refugees or illegal migrants and the integration issues that a few countries experience from the late waves, you need to be a moron to believe that right wing politicians give a single shit about the problems that you experience. Either way, you are not in any way within a hundred miles from not being a first “class citizen in your country”. What you are is a bitter and mean dipshit who has so little humanity left in them that they are so obsessed with hurting others. So blinded by the need to hate that they have resorted to seeking psychopathic joy over other people’s misery, over “defeat” of those who are concerned about authoritarian, anti democratic parties. These parties’ main purpose is to deepen wealth inequality and corruption further and profit off of it, and further disintegrate the protections of the working class from corporate exploitation. Abandoning social democratic values fixes none of the issues that the European people are suffering from.