by Giulio Meotti, GATESTONE • November 20, 2022
A country facing demographic suicide (1,707 kindergartens in Italy closed down in the last ten years) cannot afford to be overwhelmed by mass immigration without losing its national identity. That is why the new Italian government just returned to blocking ships carrying illegal migrants. Pictured: Illegal migrants that were brought aboard the Ocean Viking rescue ship between Africa and Italy, whom the Italian government refused permission to disembark, on November 10, 2022. (Photo by Vincenzo Circosta/AFP via Getty Images)
- Today, 90% of British demographic growth comes from immigration.
- The same shift is taking place in Sweden. In 2015 alone, Sweden welcomed 163,000 immigrants, the equivalent of 1.65% of its total population. Combined with other years, it is a demographic revolution: As of 2015, approximately 17% of the population were foreign-born.
- “Therefore, there has been a huge cultural change in the immigrant population, as its largest group has gone from being Finnish to being Muslim… with immigration unchanged, ethnic Swedes will be a minority in 2065.” — Kyösti Tarvainen, professor at the Aalto University of Helsinki, Folkbladet, April 13, 2021.
- That is why Swedish people recently voted in a conservative government. It is their last chance to stop an unprecedented national self-destruction.
- “Brussels is no longer Belgium…. There are more Brussels residents of Moroccan origin than Flemings or Walloons”. — Philippe Van Parijs, Belgian academic and economist, De Standaard, September 5, 2022.
- A country facing demographic suicide (1,707 kindergartens in Italy closed down in the last ten years) cannot afford to be overwhelmed by mass immigration without losing its national identity.
- The West is at stake. The choice Europeans urgently need to make is whether they would like to transform their countries into a wholly different culture — as the people who inhabited Turkey did after center of Christendom fell to the Ottoman Empire, or as Egypt did from being the land of the Christian Copts to that of a state where the Copts now face non-stop persecution.
- Unfortunately, Europe, whether it likes it or not, has virtually no time left to decide whether or not it wishes to continue embracing open borders, multiculturalism and globalism, and, through passivity, find that its hard-won Judeo-Christian values, freedoms and identity will be quickly made extinct.
Twenty years ago, the United Nations published a document titled “Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?”. It was not a right-wing conspiracy theory, but a sophisticated working plan for Western democracies dealing with demographic aging. It has since gone mainstream. Just read what Richard Thaler, a Nobel laureate in economics, said this week: “We need more immigrants to pay pensions”.<
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A recent article by Elsa Fornero, former Italian Minister of Labor, also explains the mentality of those who govern Europe and how they prepare the demise of its civilization:
Immigration is not really the issue as much as integration and assimilation. When newcomers stick to themselves and prefer to be “ghettoized” in their own communities without wanting to become a part of their “new” society, this is what causes problems. They must place their past customs where they now belong – in the past. They should be welcomed to exist here in their current status and realize that rules that used to apply no longer have the same value in their lives. There are now new rules to govern them. As the old saying goes, “When in Rome…”
Unfortunately, the governments bow down to their demands when these people have no rights to demand anything that is different from what the current domestic population is familiar and lives by. This does not preclude basic human rights.
Today’s Multiculturalism, resulting from the mass migration of peoples, brings to mind the “barbarian invasions” which contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. These started around 200 BCE and continued at least into the 600’s CE. The greatest civilization the world had seen up to that time came to an end. Some vestiges of the old Rome persisted, but for the most part, the new peoples built their societies on the ashes of Rome. It was the remaining Roman populace who had to assimilate into the new barbarian societies. Is this not what we are witnessing now?
One difference I see, however, is that the barbarian hordes who are entering Europe now, do not come with much of a culture, or values, let alone civilization, to build upon. They are a rabble, held together mainly by a religious ideology which has rightly been called “madness” and “retrograde”. The Globalist elite, for god knows what reason, sees this as a good thing. What are they thinking? The world will surely become a primitive, violent, tribal, and nightmarish place. Do they think that they can escape or insulate themselves from what they have wrought? They cannot.
At the end of the barbarian invasions of Rome, civilization and culture did finally re-establish itself and flourish. It took a long time, with much suffering along the way. As the new barbarian hordes flood into Europe, one is cautiously optimistic that culture and civilization will rise yet again. It may take a little longer, however. One also wonders what kinds of science, philosophy, literature, and arts will emerge, and most importantly, will people ever enjoy freedom again?
Politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from race.
“Is Multiculturalism Destroying Western National Identities?”
Of course it is – and of course that is and always was the goal. For more than 60 years, the Left has been working to destroy this nation and the West from within, using Herbert Marcuse’s “march through the institutions.” And so very sadly, they are succeeding beyond their wildest expectations. We in the West are in so much trouble…