Subj : Great Replacement Theory
To   : Arelor
From : Kaelon
Date : Sat May 28 2022 10:16:01

  Re: Great Replacement Theory
  By: Arelor to Kaelon on Fri May 27 2022 01:17 pm

 > Also I find accusing countries that take immigrants of being the cause of
 > the flow of immigrants to be outright victim shaming. The Califato also
 > raped and pillaged the folks of the area which today is Spain and Portugal
 > but they didn't get a mass migration from Europe as a result.

I think the Caliphate paid dearly for its expansion into Europe through countless Crusades, the Spanish occupation of Morocco, the British intervention in Egypt and Africa, and France's subjugation of the Mediterranean throughout the early 1800s.  Turkey's eventual capitulation as Europe's "sick man" sort of finishes this cycle, but let us not pretend that there hasn't been population give-and-take borne from the imperial ambitions of European states.

If Europe is genuinely interested in changing the story that it has with migrant populations, it should look inward at its own social and demographic policies:

1. Improve demographic and economic conditions for its native population, to get to at least 2,100 births per 1,000 people.  Most of the West is well below basic replacement figures, and is reliant upon immigration to meet basic population economic needs.

2. Provide better integration and assimilation services: from language and skills training, to social welfare programming, and criminal justice reform to aggressively manage immigrant populations.

3. Re-think its foreign aid policies to ensure that countries that it borders are stable and successful.

The United States has a mixed record on all of these traits, as well, and for political (partisan) and economic reasons, it favors an unstable Central and South America but prefers a stable and successful Caribbean.
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