@Zooey72:
Cheap labor does come with a price, the price Eurupe is paying right now. I won’t go into every Eurpean country because the reason they have allowed the influx of immigrants varies.
immigration has nothing to do with “cheap labor” and the economic problems. Just like immigration in the US has nothing to do with the economic “battle” over textiles you have fought with China. Cheap labor is eve ncheaper outside the wealthy countries, where the costs of living are high and thus the “market” (that is jobless human beings, and not human “ressources”) demands higher wages. And they will be higher as in other -poorer- countries you can “live” from a few US$/day.
My point is that as bad as the rioters in France feel that they have been misstreated is nowhere near the poverty they would have if they were in their home countries. However they feel that they are cheated out of the wealth, but keep their nationalistic identity
Then you are misinformed. Their home country now is France. They speak french. Their rap songs are french. They want the rights and respect that any french citizen can demand from France. They have not kept their grand-parents identity.
It has become much more about respect than anything else. Only after Sarkozy called them “scum”, the situation totally escalated.
The immigrants in Eurupe do not look at themselves as Eurupeans, they cling to the nationalistic insanity that is destroying their own home countries.
Again you are not fully informed. In France, the second and third generations immigrants see themselves as French. In Germany, the turkish community sees itself as european, as they see Turkey as european. The other great block of immigrants in Germany are Russo-germans, both european countries.
The first influx of immigrant labor after WW2 to Eurupe was more than happy to take crap jobs for crap pay (remind you of what is going on now in the US?) because it was much better than what they had. Their children want more, and they should. But there has been no integration.
Most often, the pay was not even crap. The first wave of immigration -in germany- was mainly from countries that had not lost so many men in WW2 (Turkey, Portugal) and with the fast growing economy, we needed men to work there. In the 60s, we still had zero unemployment in Germany. So, the first wave was paid really well! I suppose that it was similar in the other countries that had suffered a lot in the war.
Bu you are right in the other point: there has been not enough integration.
And please:
Europe
It is not that hard to spell.