Japan To Embark On An Era Of "Mass Foreign Immigration" | ZeroHedge
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Australia has this. There's about 1.5 million of them, which is... ~5% of our total population.
In theory they are "temporary", but the vast, vast majority stay for 5 years or more, get permanent residency, or don't, but still buy real estate anyway, because you don't even have to be a resident to do that...
Even if they were temporary, as they claim, it still completely fucks up our entire housing market, and completely fucks over both wages and entry-level jobs (because they're competing with us natives for both).
It's a fucking disaster. Both the backpackers, and, more significantly, the international student population. A complete fucking Ponzi scheme, which pretty much every "native" Australia knows is fucked, but the media will never talk about...
A week ago, two generations (father and grandfather) of an Indian migrant family drowned in a hotel pool on the Gold Coast, because they didn't fucking know how to swim, yet were still around the pool anyway, and they jumped in to save their two year old daughter.
That's at least the fourth time in the last year that a group of Indians has drowned, here, because they do not know how to swim. Yet we're importing more and more of them.
Apparently 50% of our population, now, is second-generation at most. That's totally fucking insane.
So yeah, never, ever trust that these things will be "temporary", or that they will leave after the work, whatever it may supposedly be, is done...
Yeah, they never leave. I think Japan is a bit better about sticking to rules, so they'll get a few more years of reprieve vs. the West, but it won't last with subversive agents running things behind the scenes. The workers will get married, or bring their families over and go on NHK whining about how they should be allowed to stay like we see with the Kurds.
I'm surprised Indians don't know how to swim. Don't they bathe in the river for religious reasons?
I guess there’s a difference between bathing on the ghats vs actually going in the water properly (having been to Varanasi and done that - I admittedly didn’t see many of them actually going beyond the very edge)…
But also, there’s over a billion of them. If you’re from some middle class family in Delhi, say, which is pretty much desert, you’ve very likely never spent much time near the water…
And wealthier families rely on servants to do things like teaching their children to swim (hypothetically), so… It’s not that surprising, to me.
When I was over there, I very, very rarely saw the locals go in the rivers. That was, unsurprisingly, mostly tourists like me and my friends…
But beyond that, all Australian kids take swimming lessons. They’re mandatory. So we all learn to swim. Which is logical in a country where 80% of us live on the coast. And where freestyle (Australian crawl) was arguably “invented”…
As a result, when you get migrant families that don’t have the same experience, this is gonna happen…
All of which is to say, perhaps putting “Can you swim to save your own life?” on citizenship tests is arguably not that unreasonable…
It won’t happen of course, but it’s not that… Outlandish.