Denmark, the latest people to learn to be racists the hard way.

blaxshep · Sep 6, 2016

TAARNBY, Denmark — Johnny Christensen, a stout and silver-whiskered retired bank employee, always thought of himself as sympathetic to people fleeing war and welcoming to immigrants. But after more than 36,000 mostly Muslim asylum seekers poured into Denmark over the past two years, Mr. Christensen, 65, said, “I’ve become a racist.”

He believes these new migrants are draining Denmark’s cherished social-welfare system but failing to adapt to its customs. “Just kick them out,” he said, unleashing a mighty kick at an imaginary target on a suburban sidewalk. “These Muslims want to keep their own culture, but we have our own rules here and everyone must follow them.”

Critics complain that these newcomers have been slow to learn Danish — though the immigration ministry recently reported that 72 percent passed a required language exam. Some Danes blister at what they see as ethnic enclaves: About 30 percent of new immigrants lived in the nation’s two largest cities, Aarhus and Copenhagen, where Muslim women in abayas and men in prayer caps stand out among the blond and blue-eyed crowds on narrow streets.

â€˜Iâ€™ve Become a Racistâ€™: Migrant Wave Unleashes Danish Tensions Over Identity

joG · Sep 6, 2016

blaxshep said:
TAARNBY, Denmark — Johnny Christensen, a stout and silver-whiskered retired bank employee, always thought of himself as sympathetic to people fleeing war and welcoming to immigrants. But after more than 36,000 mostly Muslim asylum seekers poured into Denmark over the past two years, Mr. Christensen, 65, said, “I’ve become a racist.”

He believes these new migrants are draining Denmark’s cherished social-welfare system but failing to adapt to its customs. “Just kick them out,” he said, unleashing a mighty kick at an imaginary target on a suburban sidewalk. “These Muslims want to keep their own culture, but we have our own rules here and everyone must follow them.”

Critics complain that these newcomers have been slow to learn Danish — though the immigration ministry recently reported that 72 percent passed a required language exam. Some Danes blister at what they see as ethnic enclaves: About 30 percent of new immigrants lived in the nation’s two largest cities, Aarhus and Copenhagen, where Muslim women in abayas and men in prayer caps stand out among the blond and blue-eyed crowds on narrow streets.

â€˜Iâ€™ve Become a Racistâ€™: Migrant Wave Unleashes Danish Tensions Over Identity

The Danes are known to be provincial and look! They don't like Muslims even those that learn Danish.

Honestly, the Europeans are even more xenophobic than Trump's followers. This has been rather clear for decades. That is why the governments mostly kept a cover over the fact that immigrants were coming in numbers and would stay. Why, in England even blue eyed Poles are railing the masses. And believe me, I have had a lot to do with Poles and they are really okay.

The real problem is that the populations have been promised security nets of one kind or another by the let's just call it social democracies for simplicity. They have not understood that the social programs they built as public goods were misbegotten and would not survive even small shocks. The Greeks found that out, when the Euro destroyed them. Now it is the ignorant and self centered way Europeans went about security in their back yards. It has fallen on their toes and combined with the Schengen/Dublin set of treaties that the politicians never really explained to their populations other than to note how cool it was not to be checked at the boarder is becoming an explosive cocktail that could endanger political stability around the continent.

PeteEU · Sep 6, 2016

Yea saw this, this morning in the Danish newspapers.. and pretty much /shrug across the board. American newspapers tend to do this articles and they are usually full of mistakes and very narrow in their scope.

This article is no exception. Plus the name Johnny in Danish is often linked to "hillbilly" type persons with low IQ and such.. made me laugh a bit.

But this one made me laugh more

Birgitte Romme Larsen, a Danish anthropologist who has studied refugees and asylum seekers in rural areas, mentioned an African refugee who did not realize that closing his curtains during the day was interpreted as being unduly secretive.

What a load of horse****. Must be some local custom in some hick town somewhere in Jutland, because I have never heard of this before.

Other newcomers were not aware that congregating and talking loudly at a grocery might offend Danish sensibilities.

LOL like that is a Danish thing only. Spanish dont like it either, Germans too.. Swedes,..

But what the article fails to mention is that this has been a problem for decades.. yes it has gotten worse since the Syrian conflict, but integration of refugees and our own lax laws over time, have all contributed to the problem.

As the article mentions, Denmarks first taste of outside immigration from other than Scandinavia and Germany, came in the 1960s and 70s with Turkish and Yugoslavian migrants. The problem started there. For one there was no plan to kick them out once the jobs dried up. So when that happened, many of these migrants stayed behind and went on benefits. This caused all sorts of problems over time, as the very same migrants were able to get their families up and their families and so on. Poor legislation opened up the floodgates for the Turks especially back in the day and we are too this day paying for this. What people forget is that most of the Turks we got up, came from poor rural areas... very traditional, and that is where the patriarchal problems stem from even today.

Case in point. Denmark accepted a lot of Bosnian refugees from the civil war there. Many of those are still here. Why? The whole point of being a refugee, is when your country is safe again.. go home. We still have a large group of Lebanese in Denmark, who go back on freaking holiday to Lebanon to visit family and yet they are still considered refugees.

Now the Danish government is playing catch up and fumbling it as usual because of the racists in the Danish People Party. The problem is the Danish People Party.. always has been. They are boneheaded nationalists with links to neo nazi and racist groups across Europe, but are seen as mainstream these days as they have been able to use the fear of "outsiders" and blaming the EU to their advantage.

Instead of joining with the EU to mount a powerful immigrantion and especially repatriation system, Denmark because of the Peoples Party is becoming more and more nationalist and isolationist.

Case in point, we have around 200 criminal migrants in Denmark we cant kick out. Why? Because the best deal we could get with their homeland, is that the criminal has to agree with the deportation. And who do the Danish People Party blame? Oh the EU of course and everyone else, when the solution is the EU.. freaking morons.

blaxshep · Sep 6, 2016

PeteEU said:
Yea saw this, this morning in the Danish newspapers.. and pretty much /shrug across the board. American newspapers tend to do this articles and they are usually full of mistakes and very narrow in their scope.

This article is no exception. Plus the name Johnny in Danish is often linked to "hillbilly" type persons with low IQ and such.. made me laugh a bit.

But this one made me laugh more

What a load of horse****. Must be some local custom in some hick town somewhere in Jutland, because I have never heard of this before.

LOL like that is a Danish thing only. Spanish dont like it either, Germans too.. Swedes,..

But what the article fails to mention is that this has been a problem for decades.. yes it has gotten worse since the Syrian conflict, but integration of refugees and our own lax laws over time, have all contributed to the problem.

As the article mentions, Denmarks first taste of outside immigration from other than Scandinavia and Germany, came in the 1960s and 70s with Turkish and Yugoslavian migrants. The problem started there. For one there was no plan to kick them out once the jobs dried up. So when that happened, many of these migrants stayed behind and went on benefits. This caused all sorts of problems over time, as the very same migrants were able to get their families up and their families and so on. Poor legislation opened up the floodgates for the Turks especially back in the day and we are too this day paying for this. What people forget is that most of the Turks we got up, came from poor rural areas... very traditional, and that is where the patriarchal problems stem from even today.

Case in point. Denmark accepted a lot of Bosnian refugees from the civil war there. Many of those are still here. Why? The whole point of being a refugee, is when your country is safe again.. go home. We still have a large group of Lebanese in Denmark, who go back on freaking holiday to Lebanon to visit family and yet they are still considered refugees.

Now the Danish government is playing catch up and fumbling it as usual because of the racists in the Danish People Party. The problem is the Danish People Party.. always has been. They are boneheaded nationalists with links to neo nazi and racist groups across Europe, but are seen as mainstream these days as they have been able to use the fear of "outsiders" and blaming the EU to their advantage.

Instead of joining with the EU to mount a powerful immigrantion and especially repatriation system, Denmark because of the Peoples Party is becoming more and more nationalist and isolationist.

Case in point, we have around 200 criminal migrants in Denmark we cant kick out. Why? Because the best deal we could get with their homeland, is that the criminal has to agree with the deportation. And who do the Danish People Party blame? Oh the EU of course and everyone else, when the solution is the EU.. freaking morons.

Why is the EU so hell bent on multi-culturism in the first place? Why would anyone want millions of Muslim refugees in their country? Nothing good has come of it in any country that has tried.

chuckiechan · Sep 6, 2016

If there is any universal constant in dealing with Islam in the western world, is no one asks our women and if they do ask they don't listen.

Denmark, the latest people to learn to be racists the hard way.

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