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bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 day agoThis is why people come over in small boats from France, because they see our empathy as something to be taken advantage of.
Oh, actually, this isn’t true, usually it’s because they speak English. The UK is quite a nasty place for immigrants.
It’s not though. All the major cities have cultural hubs and communities where migrants can find their place amongst their brethren. It used to be one of our strengths.
Compare that to Germany where even the Turks and Italians who have lived there for generations are still seen as oddities to be frowned on.
The UK pretty consistently scores low compared to other emigration destination countries, and Germany consistently scores higher, actually.
This is one of the mainstream media’s favourite pieces of propaganda. “we’re a soft touch, that’s why migrants come here!” it’s just completely transparently wrong, the reason migrants come here over other countries is because there used to be a British Empire that colonized half the world and as a result lots of people speak far better English than they do German or Swedish. Most of the countries people migrate from we had some hand in destabilizing too.
I don’t know what to say other than the anecdote I gave above after living in Germany for a decade
Do you remember after 9/11 and 7/7 how Indian and Pakistani (and frankly, any non-white) people living in Britain were treated? That attitude went away for a while, but came back with a vengeance. In many places around the UK, people of colour face really severe discrimination. I don’t live in Germany, so I can’t say which is worse, but I imagine both are pretty bad tbh
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Is it much worse than the rest of Europe? Basically every european country seems to have a populist right wing anti immigration movement