The home ownership. Many people really would like to own houses. It's a selfmade problem though - the way houses are built over here makes them very expensive. People who build a "cheap" house are looked down upon (silly as that is). And there is a ton of regulations these days which all raise the price of buildings due to their requirements. So yes, many germans, me included, are unhappy not to have a house of their own, but many can't afford to built a high quality house, and therefore settle to rent some space. That's why so many frown when immigrants want a house - because it looks so exaggerated for a refugee to ask for such from the usual persons point of view here.
Yeah, that is interesting about Germany (not owning a home). Two things come to mind.
1) Many immigrants come from cultures where rent-seeking is the goal. They'd happily live 15 to a house in the hopes of buying a home and letting it out to a Germany. Over time, more Germans will rent from people who probably don't share German culture. Or alternative they prefer to pick tenants who are not too 'German'.
2) I've also noticed in areas where home ownership is low, slummyness is high. What I mean is, people from other cultures, who don't own the house they live in, and have no stake in the neighborhood, generally don't take care of it or participate in local matters. Why would they?
I think you'll find Slumlording will increase in Germany. Over time, you'll end up with no-go zones in your cities. Or so I would imagine. It happened in the USA, England, Canada, AU.
- The low level jobs. Germany doesn't have a lot of those left. Automatization was an ongoing effort since many years, and I dare to say that everything a machine can do cheaper than a human is nowadays done by a machine. This includes jobs in administration and even research. There is a segments of unemployed people here without hope. They do not have the skills that are needed, and also seem unable to acquire these skills. I've been worried since a while about the social tension that this causes. The immigrants make this tension even worse. Germany wants workers, indeed, but from craftsmen upwards (craftsman certificate means about three years of training here, with both, schooling and training on job, and that's the lowest level of training that is accepted, below is just "helper"). Many immigrants seem to be willing though to take this training and want to work as craftsmen. These immigrants will be integrated very smoothly, I expect.
IMO many of the current refugee immigrants do not have the disposition to work 8-5. Some? Sure. Many won't do that sort of work. Many will of course have IQs in the mid 80s, not ideal. Not ideal at all. As a matter of fact, I find importing a large chunk of people with an IQ of mid 80s, insane. As it correlates strongly with violent crime. But, anyway. Also, this means lower IQ Germans will have to compete for these menial jobs, that are rapidly vanishing. I can't see how this is a good thing? We'll see.
- Ghettos. Did happen in some cities, not in all. In the town here I live every 3rd or 4th is an immigrant, or child of immigrants. No ghettos, and a rather below-average crime rate. Just amazing how many languages one can hear at the bus or train station. The region has a very low unemployment rate though, and best job offers, this probably helps to avoid slums and ghettos. Many immigrants opened shops or run small businesses, this is very welcome, and earned them respect from the older people. But other cities have ghettos with all the problems already. It's something to deal with, but having examples where integration worked well gives hope that we can do it again.
Depends on the immigrants. Again, bringing in mid 80s IQ is a huge mistake IMO.
Germany probably doesn't have anything comparable to the welfare estates in the USA. These places are literal shit holes. Will they develop in Germany? Not if you stop this insanity. But, if Germany accepts millions of low IQ immigrants, then I suspect, yes. As we say: It's bakes in the cake.
But we'll see.
- Culture clash. A really big problem is the way how women live. The immigrants see german women as "sluts", because of their free, unguarded by the family and generally self-determined lifestyle, also their display of body. In their opinion women who live this way are of low level. This is something that must change. They must accept the lifestyle that has grown here over the years. E.g. nudity was/is more accpeted in Germany than it is even in the "free" USA, and I don't want to lose such lenient standards over regressive forces. Not far from my office space there is an "air bathing club" where man, women and their children can enjoy sun and wind on naked skin. It's a mix of grassland with trees and bushes. While this is maybe a bit of an odd offspring of nature-love, I see it as something important that such can exist in a suburbian region - even if archaic/shamanic or otherwise weird, it is accepted, and no one will protest there or run a campaign against the place. This is what tolerance means here. Immigrants need to adopt this sort of tolerance, even if their god says, naked men and women, particularly in mixed groups, and with children, are totally unacceptable. They totally are acceptable, particularly in such a secluded space.
I don't see conservative monotheists accepting women walking around nude. As a minority, they'll just avoid those areas and tell their kids not to go there (Or, at least their daughters). As a majority, I imagine they'll vote to make those areas illegal near where they live.
That's what I would guess. Remember, many people are immigrating to Germany because they were told Germany is a weak country and the German women need a 'real man'. While this sounds absolutely idiotic to you or I. To someone with a mid 80s IQ, it sounds like a dream come true. Those 1000 men are part of this wave of overwhelmingly men.
Don't forget, many of these cultures marry their cousins, which they will be bringing over to have large families. I think you'll find, this is going to end up much worse than you could imagine. Maybe even destroy the EU.
- German culture. It's a very blurry, fuzzy and fractured thing. The past 1000 years Germany usually was an area where many small states existed, with their own laws, measurement units, dialects and traditions and all this under changine influences from neighboring countries. Very interesting, but still quite fractured. Much of what we call culture is a very regional thing. These days show, we are not sure what German culture is. But a few corner stones show up, rooted in philosophy and ethics, mostly thoughts from the period after 1700, which finally formed the modern society. We must unleash these thoughts again, and become aware that they were the guidelines that shaped modern Germany.
I totally agree.
- The welfare system. It's been eroding even before the immigrants came. It needs a redesign. But we had more unemployed people already in the past, than today, including the immigrants, and the system survived the pressure. The immigrants are a problem, but not a fatal. We need a solution though for the increasing number of older people, and the decrease in workforce. The old system can't deal with the changed balance.
Japan is in the same boat. Essentially, the young have less, and so do the old. But, they'll dealing with it. It is possible to make do. Japanese stores are packed with the best goods you could hope for. The grocery stores are packed with the nicest food. Electronics are fantastic. Etc....
That said, there is a slight decrease in quality in some areas of Japan. Primarily from importing from China. Materials used in new home construction for example.
- Homosexuality. My impression is that the acceptance level was already higher, 10 or 20 years ago. But there is a clear consent that tolerance is wanted, and it has to be accepted. The debates are all about details, e.g. how to teach pupils in school about sexuality, if/how to mention alternatives to the traditional family, at what age to give such information etc. What I miss is a "partnership" contract for polygamous people. For some reasons, there is no talk about it, only 1:1 partnerships are accepted officially. But looking at the force of these debates, I don't think the immigrants can turn the wheel back there - actually "not backwards" is a clearer decision than the actual direction of "forward" - thats what most debates are about. Very bad point: A group of immigrants tried to stone two transsexuals to death near a train station recently. Apparently only the lack of stones saved their lives, the police came very late. This must not happen again. If some wants to be the other sex, it is their thing, and they must be left in peace. This is about the same the nudist club above - give those people a place, and let them be happy. Almost none of them are missionary, all they want is peace.
Again, I don't see conservative monotheists ever accepting homosexual relationships. They'll use this as an example of why Germans are inferior. Or so I would imagine. Again, remember, the average IQ is in the mid 80s. When you can't compete at nuclear physics, then you point at a gay man and say to your son, see, look at that disgrace. This is what simple people do. It's the way they think.
