Quote Originally Posted by Husar
Don´t many of these countries have a comparatively low life-expectancy anyway?
What does the average age tell us? I already knew we Europeans have too few children, but I am not sure whether that will be our destruction. We could just stop immigration anyway and throw any troublemakers out, some people shouldn´t be here anymore anyway, and while we´re at it, do not forget about Nazis and the likes, we have no use for them either.
Life expectancy is not the issue: these are the population profiles TODAY.

I think those demographic figures are very interesting. As for what they tell you, that depends in part on what you ask them.

For me, for example, the fact that the average age in Pakistan is under 20, and 40% of the WHOLE COUNTRY is under 15, tells me something about a cause of radical Islam in that country: teenage boys. Teenage boys like causes and death. Teenage boys start behaving better once they have a girl, but only if the girl has choices and some power, so she can force him to stop behaving like a [bottom] or she will leave.

Therefore defeating radical islam in Pakistan means giving boys jobs and girls rights.

And so on.

Incidentally, not that it may matter much, (although it may matter a lot), but exactly HOW will we stop immigration to Europe, when our average age is in the 40s and the surrounding nations is in the low 20s? short of recruiting some of the surrounding people and paying them to keep the rest out, physically how would you keep people out? You can't. Even the USA can't and they are in a far better position geographically. Another reason to work to make our neighbours better disposed to us.

Just to forestall the inevitable wiff of racism (hello, its immigration control, it necessarily discriminates on the grounds of nationality) why does this matter? Well, one for instance is that we are starting to feel our way towards consuming less and paying more in order to have a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle. Recent arrivals from poor countries are much less likely to accept that they should make those sacrifices. They will feel, accurately, that we had it good for years, and now its their turn. Their views on other issues, civil rights for instance, are likely to differ considerably from ours.

I make no apology for saying I like European culture and want to continue to live under it. That is in no way incompatible with immigration, but its incompatible with the namby pamby approach we have had to immigration so far.