Are people becoming less tolerant towards Third World immigration?

Question

regardless if it's legal or not?

I keep hearing how third worlders are the only immigrants who refuse to assimilate, learn the language, tend to have lots of kids and outbreed ctizens, demand it's host countries change it's way to accomadate them, etc.

The immigration problems in the U.S. and U.K. are good examples of what I mean.

Your thoughts?

Answer 1

People are becoming less tolerant I think because the influx of immigrants is spiking. Legally and illegally, immigration is becoming a major point of contention for first world countries.

Most people don't want to change to accommodate immigrants because they feel that as citizens of their respective nations, they are entitled to live life the way they always have. Thus, those who are only here as visitors or immigrants should conform to the pre-existing terms of society, not demand changes be made to accomodate them.

Answer 2

It will continue to downgrade our way of life. An apartment building just a few blocks from me used to be an upscale residence. But within the last four years it has become primarily dominated by an ever increasing number of mexicans and the place looks like a dump. Laundry drying on the balcony, cars on blocks, half naked kids running through the parking lot, foot paths were grass used to be. Now its an eyesore. The same was said at the turn of the century in the north east. It took decades, generations for people to shed what they knew and learn this way of life. But as more come the very lowest class of people continues to increase also. It is a financial drag or drain on the rest of the country. We already have a whitehouse problem with 8 billion a month going on an illegal war. That money has got to come from somewhere. How much strain can the middle class take? The class that does most of the work, pays most of the taxes, has the highest number of children in the education system, are the first to be sent to war. The list goes on. So if the middle class is absorbed into two tidy classes of rich and poor the bottom half will take on what characteristics? That of a third world nation. Sorry if i oversimplified it but thats the long and short of it.

Answer 3

Many of those objections - high fertility, undercutting wages, 'refusal' to learn the language - are not new, and are just the standard fears of nativists.

The sheer flood of illegal aliens in the US, and of technically-legal 'reverse colonists' in the UK and EU, though, is a new phenomenon. And there are legitimate causes for concern.

The degree to which developed nations are catering to illegals/'reverse colonists' is a new thing, for instance. In the past, the first generation of immigrants might be unable or unwilling to master the language or fully assimilate, but subsequent generations were native speakers and assimilated fully. Today, that is turning out to be less the case. Subsequent generations are clinging to thier parent's language and culture, sometimes even exclusively, rather than adopting those of thier birthplace.

Similarly, in the past, immigrants who faced resentment and discrimination, if they protested at all, demanded equality - they wanted to be integrated into society and accepted as new citizens. Today, not only are they quicker to protest, but they demand accomodation and special privilleges, rather than acceptance and integration. This is doubtless not a change started in the third world, but a result of the adoption by the social-democracies of the developed of the dogma of Multi-culturalism, which demand respect for all cultures (except, of course, your own).

Answer 4

It is the human nature to protect his or her own interest at any cost. Why the Americans don't ask themselves ,where we have come from in the first place. Aren't the half of the Americans Irish immigrants and the rest are a mixture of other nationalities. Why we are so intolerant towards others, simple answer, self preservation!

Answer 5

It all depends on who you talk with, because different people have their priories and concerns when it comes to how much immigration effect them.. Alot of people have given their lives and in alot of cases limbs, here and overseas to maintain what we have, yet our government shows very little support for them and their families when they return to their homes, yet are willing to support the third world immigration. It has become a bigger problem because of special interest groups and our own government in the way they maintain information on issued green cards, student visas, visas in general, which has allowed immigrants both illegal and legal to come into the states without any sponsors or ways to support themselves. Case and point last week here in California a cabinet shop was raided by ICE to locate illegal workers. What was found was not only were there illegal workers, the owner was illegal also. That's only one case of many that can be told involving immigrates, but if you had paid this shop owner money for cabinets and now you have nothing, would you have any high regards for immigration, In alot of cases the children of immigrates find ways since they are citizens to bring everyone they can into the states and then we have to support these people. There are alot of immigrates that came to the United States and are doing real well without any problems for the US tax payers. There are alot of different categories that immigrates find themselves in because of the ways they handle living in the United States and changes they want. We wouldn't have these problems if we didn't open our hearts and arms to everyone that couldn't live in their country and wants to come to the United States. It's true that one way or another we have roots that trace back to family members being immigrates from other countries, but there isn't one older member of my family or my wife's family that came to the United States without a sponsor to support them until they were able to take care of themselves.

Answer 6

I live in UK and i agree people are becoming less tolerant to 3rd world immigrants. Have you seen in some part of the UK the BNP has 30% of the votes. But in my openion the immigrants bring this upon themselves.

Answer 7

In my opinion a big part of the problem is that the world is reaching a saturation point on population.

Because of all of the problems associated with overpopulation such as:
Higher crime
More poverty
More pollution
More noise
Less open space
Higher energy prices
Higher food prices - lack of farmland
Higher levels of communicable disease
etc, etc, etc

And there are no positives to the overpopulation issues. The people in countries like the US and the UK are experiencing a huge problem with large numbers of people flooding there. Then the costs (such as building schools, roads and all of the above) are usually placed on the shoulders of the citizens.

This creates lots of issues with people. 3rd world people will continue to breed far beyond their capability to provide for their own and even if we take in ten times the numbers we already do it will have NO effect on helping those still living in the 3rd world.

Trying to help people through immigration is a loosing battle and one we are tired of paying for with our taxes and our quality of life!

Answer 8

Lol. Some Americans refuse to learn the English language past 5th grade level, abuse the system, have lots of kids, and demand our country to change it's ways. You can tell those people, and they are not all 3rd world immigrants. (Nor do all 3rd world immigrants act this way).

Answer 9

I think someday Americans will start to see the illegal immigration problem as the scourge that it is. It has the potential to destroy our country, with all the money they cost, the crime they bring, and as you mentioned, the refusal to assimilate makes them worthless as potential citizens.

If it wasnt for the war in Iraq right now, it would be a much bigger issue, but it appears as if the government has it on their mind, they did reject the amnesty bill and the subsequent dream act...good for them!

Answer 10

the reason why americans and british dont like immigrants who dont speak english or come from the thirld world is not because only that, perhaps their skin color plays an important role, eihter African immigrants or latino immigrants, even though if they learn english no matter whatstill they wont like them, that is the reason why many british are coming here cause they cant stand their middle eastern immigrants and african immigrants. and usa dont protest when they know there is many europeans overstaying their visas too, why latinos cross the border? cause we dont get visas,, they are starving, the world is getting little the population is growing, the end of the worl is coming soon and we are less tolerant to each other, however in usa, ther is only one community harrased every day