EUROPE AND THE CHALLENGES OF ITS CHANGING DEMOGRAPHY ... 1

EUROPE AND THE CHALLENGES OF ITS CHANGING DEMOGRAPHY ... 1

We have to increase the love in our hearts. It is so easy to be spiritual. Look beyond yourself and love those who are in need of love, shelter, help and solace, those hapless souls of wartorn nations, refugees fleeing the slavery of regimes that have brutalised them for decades.

Humanity needs to come together and it is possible only if we increase our capacity to love and share and do not focus solely on self-benefit. Nationalism to that effect is a sin, internationalism a noble ideal to pursue as man steps into the millennium. But then culture matters, civilisational faultlines needs checkpoints. Else, cultural quake destroys it all.

But right now the refugees have nowhere to go where they may find a roof, bread and clothes, and a warm embrace to enhance living. Europe thus far has offered refuge but is feeling its pinch on its purse and its pernicious effect on its social culture. Thus, gates are being shut on immigrants with the far right across Europe gaining popularity and power to influence policy decisions to that effect. 

Immigration has its problems. Immigrants with wide cultural differences and theologically indoctrinated minds find it difficult to integrate themselves in the society of their refuge-givers. Proselytising and politicking make matters worse. Immigration is often infiltration as well by elements antithetical to the West. This is causing great social tensions across Europe with potentially dangerous trends surfacing which could spiral out of control unto devastating ends.

Written by Sugata Bose