Red Square wrote:In the USSR, where international friendship was enforced by state police, diversity flourished as long as everyone was equally and closely watched by the State.
Once the oppressive State control was lifted, international friendship turned into conflicts, pogroms, and full-scale wars ...
I wonder what will happen if/when the oppressive State control will be lifted in the EU ...
BUT.
_(most (all?) Kubists know/intuit all ↓ below, Comrade Director first; me just thinkin' aloud)
The Russian, later Soviet, forced multi-ethnicism is pretty unique, historically. Only Red China is somewhat comparable, with their 55 sharply distinct (mini-)ethnicities, each of them in their "own" ‒ geography, history, culture ‒ region, of quite clearly delineated perimeter, and all of them coerced to identify as "Red" with some (state-approved and -promoted) folklore to showcase.
In the Russia/Soviet case, it was old khanates/emirates (Islamic, and much older than Russia) and kingdoms ‒ again, all of distinct, though not homogeneous, cultures, in "their" territories ‒ step by step taken over by the expanding tsarist empire. Bolsheviks basically secured the tsarist status quo, and brutally recaptured breakaways (Baltics, Ukraine, Caucasus). In "our" time, Soviets grabbed Eastern Europe and (tried) to expand southwards (Afghanistan).
Yurop situation is very far from all that, indeed it's diametrically opposed. It's not "Yurop" spilling over alien (and ancient) folks, incorporating them and mandating "ethno-friendship". On the converse, we have a dripping/sloshing influx, lately gone torrential, of uprooted crowds. On Yurop's side, the driving enabler is, of course, "multiculturalism", lately whipped up by the lefty-green elite to kinda State Religion ‒ with "ethno-friendship" a required paternoster.
And, problem No. 1 ‒ it's MENA crowds (Middle East / North Africa). Uprooted, yet (hereditarily) socialized in the Islamic Belt. And ca. 80% of them, appears, Islam believers.
With the usual characteristics : (roughly) 60% for Sharia, 20% affirmative of "Allahu"-violence, 10% willing to support it, and a fraction of 1% actively "working" on the "cause".
For now, the "unlikely to integrate (let alone assimilate)" form dispersed micro- and mini-pockets (micro ‒ yet with wild spikes ‒ in rural areas and towns, mini in cities). In Germany, no-go areas are in the making (yet, by comparison, we are "behind" France, Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands).
Because of the (relative) dispersal of the "Allahu" potential, law enforcement is still a local ‒ city by city, country by country ‒ thing. (Future population trends and melting of that "dispersal", that's another chapter.)
So, if EUSSR breaks down / dissolves even within a day (to return later to what it was thought to be ‒ easing economic cooperation in Europe and building a common defense might), nothing would change in the "multi-ethnicism" field. It would still be a "local" matter, its intensity varying from country to country. Same true for crushing, country by country, the cult of "Multikulti".
Remarx (Germany) :
1) Nobody has any problems here with Chinese (typically students), or East Asians in general, or Hindus (typically in IT biz). It's not their relatively small numbers (say, some 100K Chinese). It's just that (were it not the "other" surface, the accents, and the ‒ naturally ‒ other cultural load in their minds), you would take them for locals.
2) Nobody has a problem ‒ just the opposite! ‒ with the (very) thin sliver of educated, westernized ex-Muslims, many of them scholars, and not few brilliant. Same true for the (few) entrepreneurs, and the (pretty common) family-operated shoppes.
3) No need to comment on the West-Europeans (Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, ...) who live here, many in 3rd/4th generation (and assimilated, particularly up the 2nd generation).
4) No need to comment on the East-Europeans (Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, ...) ‒ when ignoring an unmistakable trail of petty- and serious crime (theft, robbery) also seeping in from there.
5) Balkans ‒ ugh... petty- and serious crime "tourism" from there is notorious. Also "welfare tourism". Freedom of movement within EUSSR, most generous Welfare-Germoney, bureaucratic process, "ethno-friendship", willful blindness, weak enforcement ‒ you solve the equation...
6) Particularly Germany has a half-century (since the '60s) experience with import of foreign workforce, and consequences thereof. In the '60s, the post-WW2 industry was booming here, and Germany got political pressure to "import (temporarily)" people from poor regions ‒ primarily south Europe, Turkey ‒ for menial jobs. It was then, that Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese came here, and a huge wave from Eastern Anatolia (hello, Islam...).
And mind you : they came to "shovel-ready" jobs, with 1-2 year contracts, and under the assumption that ‒ having made some money here ‒ they will return home (with guaranteed pension for the years of work here, of course).
There were clear objections against the "Islamic import", but pressure (from U.S. ‒ wooing Turkey, by then still on the Atatürk-course of de-Islamization, to become an ally) prevailed.
And next : within few years, industry evolving, lots of menial jobs disappeared ‒ yet a big part of the Turks did (a) stay here, and (b) didn't adapt, say: learn new skills, and (c) went on Gubmint dole. The latter being much higher than what a (low-skill) worker got paid in Turkey. Next, via family reunion, the numbers (and dole payouts) multiplied.
And so, we now have the 3rd/4th generation, on average bad in school, typically dropouts, no skills, little chance and no want to work regularly, socialized the Anatolian family way (in 2nd/3rd generation), hereditarily dole-dependent (plus, not seldom, shady dealings), yet ostentatiously proud of Islam, devouring "Allahism" via FB/Twitter, chest thumping for Sultan Erdogan, and even more so ‒ for the Glorious Future of Islam, apparently goose-stepping over the Globe.
Homework-2017 : Comrade! Solve the just now sketched equation!
