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| Dutch desert their changing country |
| 2004-12-10 |
| An exodus of native-born Dutch in search of a new life abroad has reversed immigration flows for the first time since the post-war era. Last year more people left the Netherlands than arrived as migrants or asylum seekers, even though unemployment remains low at 4.7 percent and per capita income is higher than any major country in Europe. Lawyers, accountants, computer specialist, nurses, and businessmen are lining up for visas to the English-speaking world, looking to Australia, New Zealand and Canada as orderly societies where people have the space to breathe. The new wave of "middle-class flight" has quickened this year following rising ethnic violence and crime committed by and against immigrants, and in response to fears that social order is breaking down. In the first six months there was a net outflow of 13,313 people. They are disengaging from a multicultural experiment once hailed as the model for the world but now stretched to breaking point. They are also escaping traffic jams and chronic over-crowding. Requests for visa information have exploded since the murder of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch film-maker and acerbic critic of Muslim views on women. An all-party report by the Dutch parliament this year concluded that the country's immigration policy had been a failure, leading to sink schools and ethnic ghettoes. The Netherlands has been transformed in barely 30 years from a tight-knit Christian society into a polyethnic state, with three million people of immigrant background. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 If that many people were leaving the U.S. at the same rate, we'd be losing about 478,000 per year. That would be Denver and a couple of suburbs to be named later. The immigration rate is nearly twice that, and most of the immigrants are Muslim. The reproduction rate is only just able to keep up, and if reports are correct, a larger and larger percentage of that is among the Muslim population. It's not just the number of people leaving. One must consider who is leaving, and why. If the emigrants were predominately older folks who are sick of tulips and wooden shoes, it's no big deal. But if educated younger couples are leaving because they don't want their daughters raped by Islamofascists who consider every non-burqa-clad female to be a whore.... The Netherlands may be approaching the tipping point. |
| Posted by: Darth VAda 2004-12-11 12:15:11 AM |
| #3 WingedAvenger, you one of them self-anointed "nice people" who likes to strut around in a Che Guevara T-shirt and reflectively raise you fist when the International is played? Got you in one didn't I? Not hard really, because only someone living in an Alternative Universe would be so clueless, bordering on idiocy as to be unaware of the critical situation of group antagonism, bordering on civil war, that is currently the result of the failed "multicultural" policies in Holland. Ever heard of Theo Van Gogh? any idea why he was ritually slaughtered as a sacrifice to the moon god? As for the demographic argument raised, what part of "reversed immigration flows for the first time since the post-war era." don't you understand? |
| Posted by: tipper 2004-12-11 12:10:05 AM |
| #2 This rubbish is so barkingly biased its not worth commenting on, except to raise the point that a net outflow of 13,313 people in a country with a population as large as Holland is hardly a mass exodus. May i also suggest that emigration between states in Europe is, and always has been, high. Its an insult to all thinking people, regardless of political stripe, that someone thought to post it here. |
| Posted by: WingedAvenger 2004-12-10 11:03:15 PM |
#1 The Netherlands has been transformed in barely 30 years from a tight-knit Christian society into a polyethnic state, with three million people of immigrant background.Most of whom don't want to assimilate, but rather to destroy the society that has given them shelter and more freedom than their home countries could even dream of. Congratulations, tranzis and multi-cultis - your evil child has borne its poisonous fruit. Rot in hell, the lot of you worldwide. I'm sure you're happy now, tranzi destroyer of worlds. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-12-10 10:58:26 PM |