why is there so much xenophobia in european countries?

[Stelio Kontos]

I'm so sorry.

It's not so bad. I moved to San Diego and disliked it so much I went back to Seattle after a few months. But if I was making serious bank, I'd like to live in Manhattan, just for the NYC experience.

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That's just your "European xenophobia toward Americans" talking.

Apparently. I have American relatives, in VA. I've visited them before, but they don't care much for me. The way they see it their boy married a heathen foreigner....because we're not Protestant or American.

[Deleted]

What in the fuck are you even babbling about. We are talking about Modern CURRENT times. You know, where we have people with a shitty culture that promotes oppression and execution of people due to a belief of invisible people in the Sky moving into places where said People supposedly have equal rights yet have to deal with backwards morons not assimilating to said rights.

I mean if being Alt Right means you would rather have a civil society where everyone has rights regardless of their Gender/sexual preference which doesn't have people that come from places where things like that are still a Death sentence, then I'm fine with that.

Funny, you're using the exact same kind of rhetoric that nazis and other racists use.

Have some respect for yourself - at least admit you're a racist. People who identify with themselves as the alt-right... they're the absolute lowest of the low. At least nazis go out in real life, show themselves and have the self-respect to call themselves what they really are; the alt-right are a bunch of cowards who can't even admit to spouting racism to strangers on the internet. I mean, how pathetic isn't that? So do yourself a service, and stop acting as if the alt-right is something positive to be associated with...

[ati87]

I like how most arguments end up becoming ''they where wrong back then but now we are smarter and the thing we said back then is true now''.

Right wingers have been wrong in almost everything for centenaries at this point. They push for policies that don't work and after pushing for that policy which backfires they start blaming the ''others''.

[Dezerte]

I would like to ask you people who live in the European countries that are taking in the most refugee's. Do the majority of these refugee's appear to be fanatical Muslims who want to oppress people with their religion? I suspect that most of them are not like this but their are a few of them that stand out this way. Is that the way it is?

No, your suspicions are correct. Most of the Muslims here are refugees, i.e. they are fleeing their countries because of fanatical Muslims ruining it for them.

[Kuntantee]

Xenophobia is problem of the world, not just Europe. What you have in Europe is not xenophobia, it's widespread racism, barring few countries.

[Rennadrel]

Because locals don't like being treated like second class citizens while their governments give hand outs to people who are culturally incompatible with tbe rest of the civilized world and often do barbaric things and get away with it

[Deleted]

anyone that are not from the country seem to be subjected to xenophobia to some degree all the time, why?

Why there is so much trollbaiting in your post?

[Deletedaccount1]

anyone that are not from the country seem to be subjected to xenophobia to some degree all the time, why?

Western and Northern Europe is probably the least xenophobic place in the world save for maybe the US, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

[RobertMugabe]

Because the media has given you a skewed perception that there is. Europe has some of the most accepting countries in the entire world, with some of the most protective laws surrounding them and every other citizen.

This is true, but still...

To be fair, media also made immigration a much larger issue than it actually is

[Deletedaccount1]

Right wingers have been wrong in almost everything for centenaries at this point. They push for policies that don't work and after pushing for that policy which backfires they start blaming the ''others''.

Remind me what happened to most left wing countries in the past century would you?

[RobertMugabe]

Because locals don't like being treated like second class citizens while their governments give hand outs to people who are culturally incompatible with tbe rest of the civilized world and often do barbaric things and get away with it

This sounds more like these locals are just childish af

[Deleted]

anyone that are not from the country seem to be subjected to xenophobia to some degree all the time, why?

It's called the 'welfare state'.

[ParanoiD84]

Unlike Where? How is it going in the middleeast and africa with that?

Imagine if the roles where reversed and Europeans needed to migrate to africa and the middleeast in the millions, wouldn't work so good now would it?

[Deletedaccount1]

That all depends were you put the centre.

It does but left wing governments that are actually socialist either collapse, reform into capitalist economies or become hellholes.

It is a pretty laughable statement to say that right wingers have been promoting failed policies for centuries when literally every modern economy runs on a market system. I am no social conservative or opponent of immigration but that person's comment struck me as insanely ignorant or poorly worded.

[Fojos]

I would like to ask you people who live in the European countries that are taking in the most refugee's. Do the majority of these refugee's appear to be fanatical Muslims who want to oppress people with their religion? I suspect that most of them are not like this but their are a few of them that stand out this way. Is that the way it is?

Most of the ones we see are 20-30 year old guys pretending to be children.

Most of the fanatical ones are those who are already established here, like in mosques and these religious schools for children and teens (why these are even allowed to exist I wonder, especially considering both they and the mosques get funding from the state).

[Deleted]

There isnt. People dont hate foreigners, they hate being forced to accomodate to the newcomers.

[Deletedaccount1]

I think your confusing socialism with communism.

I don't think I am. Socialism is public ownership over the means of production. As far as I'm aware, no developed country subscribes to this.

[Deleted]

It's xenophobic to think that others are xenophobic. There are even different aspects. People value different things. What is considered xenophobic in one part of the world can be non-xenophobic in other parts of the world. It's actually twisted sometimes - victim of repressions is accused for being non-tolerant. And in world of political correctness anti-hate speeches consist lots of hatred.

[Deleted]

Unlike, say, Americas, Europe wasn't formed by immigrants; various European countries have been historically dominated by certain native groups. Those native groups' self-determination has never really been challenged by very large influxes of immigrants, and as such it is very strong, which necessarily leads to certain arrogance. I wouldn't call it "xenophobia" though: too strong a word.

This, though I would brand it ignorance without a second thought. In France and the UK, it is much less obvious than Norway for example, because France and the UK have had several generations of migration already.

[Deleted]

Unlike, say, Americas, Europe wasn't formed by immigrants; various European countries have been historically dominated by certain native groups. Those native groups' self-determination has never really been challenged by very large influxes of immigrants, and as such it is very strong, which necessarily leads to certain arrogance. I wouldn't call it "xenophobia" though: too strong a word.

On the contrary, the eastern border of Europe has been in turmoil for ages, ask the Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians etc what they had to put up with so that you wouldn't have to learn Mongolian under the threat of beheading.

Read up on the Akritai.