I think the immigration is what keeps Spain from turning into another Japan or Germany - a stagnant, overly old place stuck in time.
I think the immigration is what keeps Spain from turning into another Japan or Germany - a stagnant, overly old place stuck in time.
Better to have an economically stangnant country than tp have no country at all. The people make the country. We are not economic units to be moved around so that the line goes up. Immigration leads to erosion of a country.
And in Spain most immigrants are from Latin America with close enough culture and language to avoid most integration problems.
Even if it's the same language, they do not integrate. They stay in their own social groups and economic groups, almost like a "parallel society". And they bring their religion, evangelical christianism, which is nothing like ours.
I wouldn't say most.
It's around 55–60% of immigrants who come from Spanish-speaking countries.
Also, this uses official numbers, which reflect a larger Spanish speaking share than there is in reality (as people from Spanish-speaking countries have more straightforward visa processes).
So the real percentage is probably much lower (as there are a lot of undocumented migrants. 1.2 million applied for "legalization").
Germany has had an immense amount of immigration over the past couple decades.
Immigrants but not immigration because there aren’t enough resources to help all the people to integrate.
Which is a political choice - not necessarily a resource problem. Germany, if any, would have the resources to help with integration but for decades most people and politicians were living in denial that people from other countries that came to Germany actually wanted to stay and _live_ there or were living in a world were state debt was seen as the devil's spawn.
Besides the mentioned comments Spanish speaking immigration is much more welcomed by radical right AND Germany had a lot of German speaking immigration from Eastern Europe. There are just no German speaking minorities left in other countries.
Just came back from Japan and I found it vibrant and modern.
If you went to Japan in the 90’s, 00’s or 10’s, you’ll find the issue is that Japan still feels mostly the same. It’s a wonderful country, but post-Japan’s asset bubble and crash there’s been noticeably less change.
Change for the sake of change is what cancers are.
Why does it need to change?
Did you visit the countryside?
Japan has an aging problem and a big misogyny problem too.
Name the country and I will easy find the spots where it is not vibrant and modern, and then say "did you visit those?"
Say, I heard France has great cuisine, but I had street food in Paris and it was meh.
Doesn’t change facts about Japan‘s problems. In certain parts they are just less visible.