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Terminus's avatar

I am not European, but when I arrived to Germany for my studies, I realized something was wrong because it seemed that Germans were in the minority already. When I looked at the birthrates and demographics of the whole country, I came to the realization that Germany was irreversibly cooked, so I talked to my German boyfriend about it, and he did not believe me. Eventually I told him: "if everybody in Germany were foreigners, would you care?" and he replied: "as long as they speak to me in German I could not care less", so at that day a cried bitterly in one of the most disgraceful nights I have had in my whole life. Then I talked to my girlfriends about it and they called me basically nazi and insisted that Germany was modernizing and that was a good thing. At one point I had some verbal fight in which I told one of them that they are being demographically replaced by their government and she told me that I have had hurt her feelings and never talked to me ever again; long story short I never talked to Germans about it again and now I only see them self-destruct. My then boyfriend now is my husband and I accept that he's hypnotized by the media or the history of their country and that's it. I love them anyways and hope that they will eventually rise from the ashes. But France is the same, they are also in the exact same situation. The French with whom I have talked about the fact that they are dramatically dying out, excluded me completely from their social circle, which I must admit that did not affect me because I was disgusted by their statements anyway. But I am also permanently shocked and I would not believe it if I did not see it every single day.

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Richard Casselle's avatar

We have enjoyed a blessedly long period of peacetime and prosperity, but it’s made us very complacent, and quite insensitive to the risk of losing privileges hard-won by our ancestors. It’s like we’ve become the spoilt rich kids who’ve had everything easy, have had to fight for nothing, and who can’t now contemplate the possibility that their lifestyle could degrade. But that’s an illusion which can fail dramatically.

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