MavriKhakiss t1_ix9sf5l wrote
Just import Arabs, North African, and Latinos. Identity problem solved as your native population continue to shrink and your new arrivants fail to be properly integrated.
/s
Test19s t1_ixauzw0 wrote
>Latinos
So now they're being lumped in the same naughty bin as Arabs (whose current problems stem greatly from Islamism)? I don't want to live on a planet where Western-but-poor Latin Americans are seen as a "third world" people.
MavriKhakiss t1_ixawin8 wrote
No, and that’s beside the point.
neglectedselenium t1_ixd0quw wrote
For some reason even Romani people and muslims easily adapt in the US and the New World in general. Just tells you how racist Europeans are actually
MavriKhakiss t1_ixd3n6y wrote
« Racism » isn’t the explanatory variable however.
Thé prime factor of integration is work work work. Canada and US have more dynamic economies than Europeans. And they can chose their immigrants, so they take the best and they can « put them to work, so to speak.
North American culture is more easily accessible too; English in the lingua franca.
Sniffy4 t1_ixab4us wrote
this is actually the real answer. there are plenty of people for whom those abandoned structures and villages would be an upgrade over where they are now.
MavriKhakiss t1_ixaccf7 wrote
Absolutely.
But in this scenario, we shouldn't hold any illusion over a thing that Latvians seem to hold in importance: remaining Latvia.
Creepy-Tip-1753 t1_ixagy73 wrote
Is there a particular reason people care about that irrelevant country?
MavriKhakiss t1_ixakb2z wrote
Latvians do.
But the question of their relevance is itself irrelevant. That’s not the point of the article.
How they and others address demographic decline is in itself interesting.
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