Tuesday, July 6, 2010

"We won't have children but we'll keep the welfare state"

Europe has children. They have immigrant children. The Netherlands, for example, had to open the flood gates to foreign and former-colonial kids. Morocco and Turkey have contributed tons and tons of immigrants who LIKE children, unlike the "sophisticates" who descend from the local white people. The birth rate among the recent immigrants surpasses the replacement rate by something like three times. They have large families and they expect the Nederlanders to accommodate the old ways, the old religion, the old language. My roommate in the Netherlands was a school teacher whose job it was to teach Turkish schoolkids to speak English, which they never wanted to learn, and to try to get them a few employable skills. The kids, he said, were only interested in dropping out at age sixteen and taking up whatever their fathers did for a living, which was generally hard manual labor such as laying bricks. The saviors of the country were their mothers who were busy popping out families of four to six kids. It's a good thing for the Netherlands that their immigrants aren't part of the snooty, self-styled egghead generation who think children are a different form of cancer.

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