Culture, religion or merely because of immigrant status?
The last couple years, much has been made of moslem immigrants in Denmark having a lower employment rate than Danes, or for that matter any number of other groups in the immigrant population. A number of theories have come up trying to explain this, from the less-than-charitable ("they´d rather mooch off of our taxes") to the more graceful. One of the latter set is, that the simple fact that many of them are refugees means that many of them are incapable of holding down a job.
Fair enough. The theory has to be put to a test though. Preferably against a country without a lot of moslem immigrants, but with groups of various other religions in it large enough to have the comparison make sense. From the 2001 Indian census (Im throwing literacy in just for fun):
Literacy rate:
- Jains: 94,1%
- Christians: 80,3%
- Buddhists: 72,7%
- Sikhs: 69,4%
- Hindus: 65,1%
- Moslems: 59,1%
Work participation rate:
- Buddhists: 40,6%
- Hindus: 40,4%
- Christians: 39,7%
- Sikhs: 37,7%
- Jains: 32,9%
- Moslems: 31,3%
Some might argue, that the civil war islamist fundamentalists are running in Jammu and Kashmir is to blame, but given that less than 1 in 20 moslem indians live there, we can safely dispense with that excuse.
So, even in a nation in which they have been present for more than a millenium, they still end up at the bottom. Somebody aught to look into just why that is.
Henrik
posted by Henrik at 3:01 AM
2 Comments:
Shocking! Hindus are such racists! And they venerate the Swastika too. Poor Muselman! Allah Karim!
Seriously, Islam teaches the faithful that the way to riches is robbing other groups and gaining dhimmi taxes and war booty. Labour is not appreciated as a way of gaining an income. The problem for Muslims is of course that it does not work anymore once a county becomes majority Muslim. Then they have to stand on their own feet or become vampires sucking from vampires.
Snouck
"So, even in a nation in which they have been present for more than a millenium, they still end up at the bottom. Somebody aught to look into just why that is."
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Henrik,
One guess is that half of their population (women) aren't allowed to be educated, thus the lower literacy rate. Another guess is that Scandinavian countries provide no incentive for them to work. Why work when you can receive the largesse of your host country for doing absolutely nothing?
Ik,
Your post was outstanding & educational. You should consider creating your own blog. You have a perspective/information that aren't readily available to most Westerners.
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