A sharp rise in support for right-wing populist parties opposed to Islamic immigration is occurring in Europe, as an increasing number of indigenous Europeans start to ask themselves why a continent plagued ongoing economic problems has been busily importing low-skilled immigrants from an alien culture.
The obvious clue that Europe’s economic problems can’t be solved by bringing in cheap labour, is the continent’s persistently high level of unemployment. Generally speaking, there are two main reasons for high unemployment – either people can’t find work because there is a recession, or there are jobs available but the unemployed don’t have the skills do the available jobs. Conversely, where jobs are available that people are capable of doing, they will usually do them.
While recessions come and go, major structural problems with the economy take much longer to sort themselves out. Europe’s structural is that it simply doesn’t have a lot of jobs than low-skilled workers can do even if they want to. Economically, Europe has been on coal face of the global battle for industrial supremacy between East and West, and unlike colonial countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand, it can’t survive by exporting resources or selling real estate to Asians – in other words, it actually has to make or design stuff.
In this extremely competitive environment, Europe is having to compete with high-IQ oriental workers who not only seem to be genetically well-suited towards the world of high-end manufacturing but are also willing to work for third world wages, and unfortunately for Europe, most of its Muslim immigrants can’t seem to compete on either price or IQ.
Admittedly it’s doubtful if even East Asian immigration could have saved European manufacturing. Australia, Canada and New Zealand have been importing large numbers of Asian immigrants for about 20 years now, and even with the high education levels of these immigrants there’s little evidence to suggest they have developed any new industries in their new homelands. Even high IQ people often struggle to perform in a multicultural society which is not of their making.
While high crime rates, terrorism and rioting have been the main reasons for the rise in populist opposition to Islamic immigration, there are worrying signs that this immigration may already starting to erode the technological standards of Western European culture. One thing that hasn’t been talked about in the media (strangely) has been the ominous decline in the reliability of German cars, which has been occurring at the same time as the big increase in the percentage of non-native German workers in its car plants.
It seems pretty obvious that Europe’s elites have failed to take account of cognitive factors in their quest for cheap labour, but their blunder doesn’t stop there, since they’ve also failed to take account of cultural differences as well. The other main reason elites have been pushing Muslim immigration is to try to prop-up the tax base so there are more young workers paying taxes to support the growing elderly population.
Unfortunately, Muslims tends to have large families, but don’t tend to draw in big enough wages to support them. This means that instead of being net contributors to the tax base, many end up being net consumers of welfare. Compounding this problem is that as offspring of welfare dependents, it’s unlikely these Muslim welfare kids will grow up into productive high IQ workers. One of the ironies of life in a developed country, which today’s elites fail to grasp, is only the most successful can afford to have large families without government help, yet it is the most intelligent and successful who tend to have the smallest families.
Centre-right governments may be able to repair some of the damage from Muslim immigration by insisting that in future immigrants can’t raise more than two children on welfare, but it would be politically and socially difficult to restrict welfare for those Muslim citizens who already have large families and now can’t survive without state handouts. Subsequently, it’s vital that Western European governments act fast to stop further Muslim immigration and to discourage the next generation of young Muslims from using the welfare system to raise large families that they can’t support on their own. If European governments fail to do so, then it’s likely that Europe will slide down to socio-economic level of the overpopulated Middle-Eastern countries from which Muslim immigrants are trying to escape from.
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