But I do not believe I am obligated to pay for what was essentially war. This is the history of war.
The problem is that it was not war. It was colonialization, it was exploitation. A domination, a crime against humanity, not a simple clash of forces.
I understand that you don't wanna pay for your ancestor, but someone must. Reparation - especially when our countries are still perpetuationg directly or indirectly this exploitation - is an absolute necessity to create peace everywhere.
I think the ones dominating the global south are billionaires disconnected from myself and the general populace.
You are right. But the right (all the rights) wants to make them keep their power, it's against their interest. These people should be held accountable, I agree, but it's impossible if no one pushes politics for them to be. And for that, you gotta be a leftist and vote accordingly, there are no multiple solutions here.
The right side of the political spectrum does not have the interest of the lower classes in mind.
I do think large swathes of migrants slowly eroding natural cultures is a form of colonisation, yes.
A colonization is a domination through forces, exploitation, enslavement, oppression. It's a power oppressing a population and extrating their ressources. Is that what you are describing ?
I think what you describe is a natural social process every culture experience. All culture shift and change according to the mix of differences. Your culture won't disappear, it will just evolve.
People have been led to believe that they need to hold to everybit of "culture" without rationnal reason other than the white supremacist ideology of eurocentrism (
even if the culture in question is horrible and it actually does not disappear). But they are being invisibilized from the new cultures that appears.
Culture transform. If something needs to be kept, then it will be kept.
My advice : Ask yourself deeply
why you are afraid that your culture might disappear, who threatens you. You will see the problem.
I am certain if we denied immigrants benefits, social housing, and other incentives such as access to our free healthcare system, only the ones who want to exist and integrate with my culture would remain.
That's not what would happen. Especially when these things are not accessible to the majority of migrant without papers. When people need to survive, they don't do it because you give them X€ of social benefit if they manage to magically get their papers. They do it because they have no choice to fled or find a way either to survive financially or help their family.
Also, "Integrating" is another world for "scrap your culture". This IS a way for culture to disappear. It's a form of oppression and domination.
Strange thing : people who lives their life in peace are STILL asked to "integrate". When we look, we just see that they are not of the "right" culture. > again, white supremacy.
You have a lovely sentiment, Logiko, but I think giving them access to something they never contributed to is a kick in the face of all those who uphold and pay for the system itself, such as your average working class individual.
You do not take into account the fact that the system NEEDS marginalized to exist. Without migrants, the poor would be the ones to pay and be ask to be "integrated".
IM being ask constantly to integrate into society. I'm neither a migrant or a black man and I still feel this sword above my head. What people refuse to do for migrant, they actually refuse to do for everyone else because migrants are not the one that will benefit from it first.
When we ask for more housing, it's also for the homeless, when we ask more social services it's also for the handicaped and yet, people will still refuse to give.
The problem has never been the migrants. They are just the scapegoat to avoid rethinking the system.
But I do not think deporting individuals back to their home is the same as gas-chambers and ethno-cleansing.
What home ?
When you leave a country at the risk of your life, there is usually no home back or no way for you to survive. The reality of departation is fascism and death, not a simple sendback. It's the absence of hope and a deresponsibilization of the society who actually created the conditions of poverty.
They need to provide something to have access
Ok. Fair. Give them access then.
Allow them a shelter, housing, food, water, security, safety, a decent life. And observe how much they will contribute in return because they definitely will.
Considering that migrant can't contribute if given the chance is another form of dehumanization. They are like you and me, they just need help urgently and then they will show you what they are made of.
A country that closes itself from immigration slowly dies.
I have seen places where I grew up become a shadow of the past, Logiko. Pretty much ghettos
Again.. Fair. Then we must allow people to strive, and they won't accept to live in chaos.
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