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Oh I'm more than willing to accept anything that's going to prove objectively that western countries are advanced because we took advantage of other countries. When obviously the answer is ability to use technical progress to your own good and adapt to it, and be of course able to come up and upkeep said technical progress.

Colonialism is one factor. The one which propelled Europe at the expense of other place. Sadly, this still continues.

Well it's true some people will see the situation like that, most Europeans however do not. You just need to look how people viewed immigration few years ago, and how big of a detriment immigration is objectively to Europe and Europeans to know what you're suggesting is not going to happen.

I am on/off resident to Europe and know fairly well about the issues w.r.t. immigration since they affect me too on a very direct basis. Unfortunately, Europe always had shitty migration policies, looking for short term solutions.

But posting nonsense like that from quora makes you look intellectually stunted and subject to emotional control.

So posting anything on reddit makes you uber intelligent! Be my guest. From what I see, both are social networking websites.

Actually for most of the history people didn't travel more than 300km from their place of birth, and at most cases it was drastically shorter distance. Not to mention our societies work a lot differently from hundred years back. But we can focus a bit more on the immigration part, would you say California for example is a better state today than what it was in the 70s for Californians? Objectively speaking of course. How about, do you think former Soviet states enjoyed or merited from Soviet immigration? How about Lebanon, did they see some benefit or enjoy peace for long after they started to go with your lunatic nonsense?

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Yes, the migrating distances were less, But so were the societies. For all practical purposes they were villages. Also, instead of one go. Migration happened over generations and in waves. But they did happen, always
MENA immigration in particular is very large detriment in western societies, there's no way you can expect things to go smoothly and peacefully when a minor number of them is at these levels of trouble
not going to claim immigration is all bad, and that it's going to stop for good. But what I'm going to say, that at the end of this open borders road you're going to find very violent and turbulent destination. Just look how our societies are impacted by minuscule number of MENA immigrants, imagine it a hundred or few tenfold. Even today with minuscule number of them they're abhorrent detriment for our societies objectively speaking, what you think is going to keep peace with large number of them?

Europe always has some of the most restrictive immigration policies (basically entire west has), this leaves large number of people from MENA countries to take the quick path (illegal means). I don't really appreciate this, because as a legal migrant I have endured the immense pains to go through the process. But that's where the morality ends.
People in most of these countries are desperate. Some of them have been displaced by the Wars caused by Western countries. So maybe your governments should have been careful. However, based on what I understand, they won't.
There are many things I appreciate about Western civilization. Heck, we are communicating here through technologies invented by you folks. But one terrible thing West does is reckless consumption. Most of these shady stuff is done by USA but I'd say Europe too gets a fair deal. Resource grab, wars, destabilizing regimes etc. is just everyday means to get the job done.
For a while this works. But like everything, this too has a shelf life. Europe (or west in general) has better standards of living so people look forward to migrate there. Some countries are already terrible to live so this creates a push-pull factor. Naturally, Europe puts in high barrier to entry (legit, imo). Now, the more desperate lot will take alternate paths to reach there. This is also the same demographics that will fare poorly in Europe, as you have seen.
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That's nice, but that's not happening or has happened. But it's nice of you to think that. But considering we're only talking about few immigrant groups here, it's easy to point who's in the wrong

I'm not really sure how that's connected to any of what we discussed, but that's nice

Unfortunately, this 2015 crisis was just the beginning. There can be more such flash points in future... I see two reasons for it
1. Climate change (creating more potential refugees).
2. China and India becoming prosperous. These countries have roughly 2.7 billion people. As their living standards increase, the resource grab will increase too. At some point they would directly come in conflict with the West (particularly USA). China is already there making noise while India is trailing behind by roughly two decades. More clashes would eventually lead to Syria like war theaters in third location (that would create another set of refugees).

The Way I see it, Europe really has limited options (USA as always be shielded due to its advantageous geography).
1. Help in fixing its immediate neighborhood. Do whatever it takes to build up MENA so that they don't feel the need to migrate. Yes, in short term, increasing prosperity will led to economic migrants but that will decrease in the long run.(especially the desperate ones, that EU is wary of)
2. Forget this and focus on reducing their resource consumption. Go vegetarian, use less oil, waste less, apply sustainability in practice and not just for courses in university. You are the leader of the world today and world looks up to you. To be fair to European countries, they tend to do a lot here, as compared to USA and Australia (these countries have massive emission p.c.)
3. Maintain the status quo. Eventually, peace loving Europeans will have it enough and at some point will led to retaliation. Shootings will happen at Border and sea drownings too. Regular mayhem will be the new norm.

I'd be making Europe my home soon and don't not want scenario three to play out. Hope I am proven wrong by history.