A powerful process, Alexander! It’s settled my system, just reading and feeling into the deepening into our humanity as we’ve co-evolved with the land. Wishing you the very best with the pilot today!
The characterization isn’t quite accurate. In 2015, Germany received around 890,000 asylum seekers (not just Syrians - they included Afghans, Iraqis, and others). Merkel didn’t “invite” them in a formal sense - rather, she decided not to close Germany’s borders during the 2015 refugee crisis, famously saying “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”). This was a response to an ongoing crisis, not a proactive invitation.
On Sweden:
The “almost a quarter” figure needs context. As of recent statistics, Sweden has around 20-25% of its population that is either foreign-born or has at least one foreign-born parent. However:
• This includes people from other EU countries, Nordic neighbors, etc. - not just refugees or recent immigrants
• This has accumulated over decades, not from a single policy decision
• “Born overseas” is different from being a refugee or asylum seeker
On the framing:
The statement frames these as “acting against cultural norms and values,” which is a subjective political interpretation rather than an objective fact. Different people in these countries have varying views on immigration policy - some support it, others oppose it.
Conversation about immigration seems to be centred around the destination country of the people moving there. How about discussing the causes rather than the symptom? Poverty, War and Ecological breakdown and the influence the counties of destination have on those three.
A powerful process, Alexander! It’s settled my system, just reading and feeling into the deepening into our humanity as we’ve co-evolved with the land. Wishing you the very best with the pilot today!
On Germany and Merkel:
The characterization isn’t quite accurate. In 2015, Germany received around 890,000 asylum seekers (not just Syrians - they included Afghans, Iraqis, and others). Merkel didn’t “invite” them in a formal sense - rather, she decided not to close Germany’s borders during the 2015 refugee crisis, famously saying “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”). This was a response to an ongoing crisis, not a proactive invitation.
On Sweden:
The “almost a quarter” figure needs context. As of recent statistics, Sweden has around 20-25% of its population that is either foreign-born or has at least one foreign-born parent. However:
• This includes people from other EU countries, Nordic neighbors, etc. - not just refugees or recent immigrants
• This has accumulated over decades, not from a single policy decision
• “Born overseas” is different from being a refugee or asylum seeker
On the framing:
The statement frames these as “acting against cultural norms and values,” which is a subjective political interpretation rather than an objective fact. Different people in these countries have varying views on immigration policy - some support it, others oppose it.
Useful distinctions, thank you
great article, Mr. Beiner
Thanks!
Conversation about immigration seems to be centred around the destination country of the people moving there. How about discussing the causes rather than the symptom? Poverty, War and Ecological breakdown and the influence the counties of destination have on those three.
It is an interesting experiment though.
Love this. Let’s meet at knepp for the meeting ! I’m in ! Ali please can you tell me who you used for ancestral dna
Which company did you choose please ?
Ancestry.co.uk :)