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Yeah, but there are two completely different circumstances. Europe dosent have to deal with the absolute cluster fuck mess colonialism was. They just took money and resources and moved on.

"Hey broken country do want another million people?"

If the shoe was on the other foot? Gtfo your talking about highly corrupt administations propt up by western interests, that only providing aide for un-repayable loans. Look up what the IMF or World Bank has done and its failures.

Why do you think these people are refuguees?

They are usually running from their own country, they are running from situations from Muslim countries. How can you possibly extrapolate how billions of people would react?

You say muslims, most muslims are in Indonesia, Saudi is hardly representative of most Muslims.

Islam is far less organized or a pancea that you see it as. Muslim countries dont follow the spirit of any Islamic law, except when it suits their needs, Saudi is famous for this.

Its just too easy to paint broad strokes. You mischaracterize the situation to fit your own narrative.

Can we finally state as a fact that Europe is only democratic and fair for its own citizens?

Makes sense people in this world are selfish, and self concerned. I get your prespective but your Dutch way of life isnt even close to being threatened.

Next time you hear in the news about how progressive and equal your country maybe you ahould add that aestrix, then maybe less people will come.




> Europe dosent have to deal with the absolute cluster fuck mess colonialism was.

England is the product of many waves of colonization. Spain was colonized by the Muslims.

Why were the Europeans able to colonize these places in the first place anyway?

> Gtfo your talking about highly corrupt administations propt up by western interests, that only providing aide for un-repayable loans. Look up what the IMF or World Bank has done and its failures.

LOL! I’m from Bangladesh. The World Bank is the best thing that ever happened to the country. It basically teaches developing nations to get rich the same way European countries got rich. It’s native and organic cultural dysfunction that stands in the way.

Blaming Europeans for the dysfunction of the developing world is a false kindness. Ordinarily, you get better by copying the people who succeeded. People study how Steve Jobs built Apple. Blaming colonialism makes it easy for developing countries to falsely imagine that if they could only overcome colonialism, they would have been prosperous too.


At the risk of setting off pyrotechnics I’m going to point you to this op-ed (I am assuming you can read Bengali)

http://archive.prothom-alo.com/detail/news/67517

e: hmm it seems to be down but one of the things it states was how much money Pakistan federal government spent on upgrading education system in erstwhile East Pakistan holding it to high standards


> Why were the Europeans able to colonize these places in the first place anyway?

But why was she assaulted? What was she doing? What was she wearing?

> Blaming colonialism makes it easy for developing countries to falsely imagine that if they could only overcome colonialism, they would have been prosperous too.

anthropomorphization much?




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