Lisbon, Portugal - End of Ramadan
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How quintessential Portuguese.
How big an issue is this though, a search tells me that there are 0.4% Muslims in Portugal. Looking at other countries I can see that Romania is at 0.65%, Hungary 0.50% and Germany is 5.7% (which is insane considering the population of Germany - is almost the entire population of Ireland, New Zeeland or Croatia).
Or are this more feverous Muslims? I assume central or eastern Europe has mostly Turks.
Don't believe those numbers. Portugal has been giving the nationality at a rithm of more than hundred thousand a year! The Iman from the Lisbon Mosque says there about 120 000 Muslims in Portugal, about 1.2% of the population. But I think it is too low, because we have about 700000 legalized immigrants in the territory right now and many came from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.
Why though? Why in the world is Portugal so keen on immigration? Is this a trend of the ruling class?
For the life of me I can't understand why you would not bring immigrants from Brazil or other parts of Europe. Portugal is relatively small, how big can the demand for immigration be over there?
Is bizarre that having so many countries with similar religion and culture (I assume here that a lot of South American culture has similarities with Spain and Portugal) you would bring in people from countries with a total different culture, history, language and religion. I can only assume malice as no other logical reason is to be found.
Feminism -> collapsing birth rates -> lack of future funding for their welfare states
What do you do? Even if their birthrate jumped up to african nation's rates tomorrow, it's still going to be 20 years before they start contributing to the tax base.
Cut welfare? Enjoy your riots. Tax more? More people decide to just stop working and help themselves to the dole. Inflate the currency? You're just moving the timeline, not stopping fate.
The collapse of empires never happens at an instant, but stretched out for many years.
I understand that, I do not understand why they get immigrants from Pakistan or India when you can get immigrants from Brazil, Christians that speak the freaking same language.
Is the equivalent of Brits moving to US.