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    Anger - taming the beast

    I use the Constanza (Seinfeld) mantra "serenity now!"
  2. What are these numbers? You can't possibly be saying that the percent of people from Asia and Africa in Canada is only 2%
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    Funny people

    Old school comedians like Rodney Dangerfield are super funny too. Those one liners are killer funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPv2toi5og
  4. There are many refugees who are given/found job but they're still marginalized and live in ghettos. There's much more to integrating those people/families in a society than just providing them with jobs. In most cases the reality is that no matter what happens most of the 1st generation refugees/immigrants will more or less choose to hang out with people of similar backgrounds as theirs. In most cases they don't want to assimilate, but their kids are more likely to assimilate if these families not marginalized. We should be looking to the future and not short term.
  5. Not entirely true. I mostly agree that most of these first generation refugees will most likely never become part of the local societies where they migrate (be it Germany, Greece or other country), but their kids and their grand kids may very well assimilate to their new environment if their families are not marginalized. If the refugees are put in camps and ghettos and their kids are born and raised there then these kids will be raised as their parents did, and moreover, they will be radicalized seeing how they're discriminated against.
  6. This is true, but as I said, this is mostly the case for 1st generation immigrants. Their kids, and mostly their kids' kids won't be the same way. If you look at 2nd or 3rd generation muslims or hindus or punjabis are usually (there are exceptions of course...) "westernized". This is because Canada doesn't marginalize immigrants. It tries to slowly assimilate them, not by force, but by showing them how much better their lives will be if they drop their unreasonable and archaic religious and cultural beliefs of their ancestors. It's one thing to honor and respect your cultural past, and a different thing to live as if it's still the middle ages.
  7. If Germany marginalizes all these refuges then that's going to be a huge mistake. These refugees need to slowly become part of the German society, not live in the fringes of society.
  8. Come on, you're Canadian and you don't know what a "ghetto blaster" is?
  9. In order to argue your claims I'll have to go back to the example of Canada again, the only society in this day and age which is as close to multiculturalism as humanly possible. In Canada, even though on some part we do see what you're describing (newcomers are not readily adopting the Canadian/western way of life and mostly live and operate within their communities) on the long run - 2nd and 3rd generation Asians, Africans, middle easterns etc. do eventually assimilate in large numbers and adopt the western lifestyle. I believe that when cultures mix the one which is more intolerable will seem to be winning the fight at the beginning, but in the long run the opposite is true. Fanaticism can only get people so far. I know many people from Asia (Chinese and Indian) and also people from Africa. Some of them are immigrants from those places and others are 2nd or 3rd generation, and I can clearly see the differences between them. A good friend of mine is an Indian who was born and raised in Canada. His parents are Indians from India and they follow their traditions, as if they still live in India. My friend though, even though very respectful of his parents, lives a very Canadian life. His kids (and I coach his son in soccer) are as Canadian as any other Canadian kid - and note that my friend's wife is also Indian so they do tend to hold on to their culture a bit more than most other 2nd generation couples I know. This is not an isolated example. I'm seeing this all around me. Do you think the average Canadian born Punjabi boy wants to wear a turban, or the average Canadian born Muslim girl wants to wear a hijab? If they had a choice they wouldn't, but they do wear it (as 2nd generation kids born into families who have recently immigrated to Canada) because of the pressure they get from their families and communities. Remove those parents from the picture (those 1st generation immigrant will eventually pass away...) and you'll see a very different picture. I guess we'll know in the next 30-40 years whether I'm right with my assumptions or if I'm dead wrong and you're spot on. However, since Canada has been accepting loads of immigrants since the 1950's and there's already enough evidence to support my argument, I'm pretty confident that we'll see a similar development in Europe in the next 40-50 years.
  10. I don't think you're allowed to "attach" any images. You need to upload your images somewhere and then link to them (using that "photo" icon above)
  11. I think the reason behind Europeans not having enough kids is much more complicated. It's not just a matter of money. If this were the case then many African families who live with one dollar/day would not even dare thinking about children . There's more to it than the fact that kids are expensive to raise or that in our modern societies many women want to have careers so having kids is not a priority anymore.
  12. I think all regular graphic files are allowed (jpg, gif, png for sure).
  13. Can't see them either. Eyoismos you need to use the "image" tag to make this work.
  14. This is an interesting piece of info, if it's indeed true (which I don't doubt it is, as this is the norm throughout Europe). We're looking then at a society (if we see Europe as a whole) which is slowly aging and doesn't reproduce enough. On the other hand, we have a huge influx of people mainly from Asia and the middle East who reproduce like rabbits. It won't take long (possibly a couple of generations if this trend continues) before their numbers are significant enough to elect their own people in power and decide the fate of Europe. In many cases change is inevitable and welcome in order to breath new life in an aging and stagnant society. It's not only Europe which is changing though. It's the whole world which is turning upside down. I guess the challenge Europeans will be facing shortly is how they need to deal with the 2nd generation of those African, middle Eastern or other immigrants who are flooding Europe today. If they continue marginalizing this people as they do today (and have been doing for decades...) then they'll be creating generations of people who will not be embracing the European culture and way of life. There's a need for a major re-thinking of how European nations deal with the immigrants and refugees, and most importantly how their deal with the children of this people. Educating these kids and taking them out of the middle ages and into the modern era should be the highest priority for the European community. Failure to do this will have dire consequences for Europe.
  15. You can't be serious when you call the Chinese leaders competent and efficient. In any case, this article may explain some things a bit better than I would in a post: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/16/china-leaders-picture-totalitarian-banality
  16. Schauble is pretty old though, isn't he in his late 70s? Hardly someone who's going to be a long term solution for Germany.
  17. Who do you think is going to be the new chancellor? Schauble?
  18. If China is Trudeau's "paradise" then we're screwed as a nation I agree with eyoismos on this one. There are pros and cons in every system, and at the end of the day all systems are abused by those elected to serve them (or I guess in many cases ascended to power, not elected). In my mind, the right "system" should be designed to serve the well-being of its people. That should be the ultimate goal. Having uber rich and uber poor is not good, and unfortunately this happens in the mecca of capitalism (America) but also in the mecca of socialism/communism (China). The in between examples are also not good enough. Cuba for example has done incredible things for its people in the areas of education and medical care with very little resources and being very much isolated from the rest of the world. At the same time it really operates as a dictatorship and not as a socialist paradise. Even though the government provides for everyone so that there are not very many destitute people, as there are in the capitalist countries, most people in Cuba live meager lives, cannot travel outside Cuba, and are not really completely free to voice their opinions. This is not good. The Scandinavian countries have hit a good balance in the last few decades of some type of socialist system, but even those utopias have their share of problems. Canada has been pretty good too, even though the right wing governments of the past few years screwed up the education and medical care systems big time.
  19. What news source did you grab this from?
  20. There's very little we know about the Huns, so it's a bit unfair to judge them based on info we have from the very people who loathed them. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nice-things-to-say-about-attila-the-hun-87559701/?no-ist
  21. I think you're unfair to the Mongols and the Huns. Anyone can look as a barbarian, depending on where you stand. For example, Turks and Mongolians think of Genghis Khan in a positive light, while most other people he conquered (Chinese, middle eastern people, most Europeans) see him as a destructive barbarian.
  22. You should read the book then. It's much better than the movie. You should also look up on Kazantzakis' other works. It's all really good. By the way, did you know that the "Last Temptation of Christ" (another good movie by the way) is based on a book by Nikos Kazantzakis? That's worth a read too.

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