I was at a popular Dutch festival in my state that draws in 600k+ people a year and got hit by diversity shock. At least 1/3 of the people there were jeet Indians, half were some variant of Asian. It wasn’t just smatterings of couples or small families like the white and non jeet Asians either, it was multigenerational groups of 6-20. This is in a state where supposedly the entire Asian population is ~6% from the 2020 census. So either the census massively lied or the infinity immigration under Biden was far, far worse than the illegals the right put the spotlight on. Mass “legal” chain immigration is the real killer and both sides are in support of it.
Other typical tropes were on full display, every interracial couple was with an obese-morbidly obese white wahman. 1/3 of the white people were Reddit tier gross, 1/3 were boomer tourists who looked happy as can be about their imported retirement plan littering everywhere and the last 1/3 were the only people apparently trying to maintain and interact with their cultural heritage. This festival is very Dutch and was at least very clean, the last time I went was 2019 pre Covid however. Magically with the diversity came trash heaps and littering, to the point the locals now have trash bins on the edge of their yard and a sign asking them to not litter. It’s a weird feeling watching the culture of area erode over time, I honestly doubt the Dutch part of the festival will last another 20 years.
Edit: forgot to add the social media rot culture was all over, people were lining up to take selfies and instagram pics with flowers instead of actual trying to enjoy the point of the festival. It was hilarious watching millennial/ gen z women putting on long sleeves over their spring dress to hide their tattoos when they were posing in the flower beds. Also we really need to ban fat women from wearing spring dresses.
Yeah that is a depressing shift to go through….i grew up about 4hrs away from NYC in a very nice White town in the 1980’s. Lots of Americans who date back to the founding or somewhere near that time living there, and quite a few Italians who immigrated there in the 1920’s or whatever. Great food, great place to grow up but around 1990, our mayor made a deal with the governor to take in thousands of NYC’s worst problem children (mainly blacks) in exchange for a boost in funding. Within 10 years of that, I watched gangs pop up all over the place and crime rates skyrocket, now that entire area is an economically depressed crime ridden shidhole. Not really the same experience you’re having because you are talking about complete foreigners, but it was a massive culture shift nonetheless. It sucks knowing that once the demographic change is noticeable, it’s already too late, there’s no coming back from the damage it’ll do to the area you loved your whole life.
To protect your towns fron demographic destruction, you must gatekeep them and not let undesirables move in. It's the only way.