Europe faces its own Destruction

A British Jew wrote last month:

The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction ...

Civilisational erasure is the term the Trump administration used in its new national security strategy, published last week. It claimed that immigration, among other factors, will result in the destruction of European civilisation. In reality, without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation and no one left to argue about it.

Of course, we’re talking about different things. The Trump administration appears to see “civilisation” as a white and western property, threatened by Black and Brown people, regardless of whether they were born here or have recently arrived. This week, Donald Trump claimed that, with the exception of Poland and Hungary, European nations “will not be viable countries any longer”, as a result of immigration.

He is Jewish so when he complains that Europe is White Western, he is really complaining that it is Christian. And he is eager to replace the White Christians with brown non-Christians.

The erasure the Trump government appears to fear is of “white” culture.

There is and was no such thing. Our language, science, mathematics, music, cuisine, literature, art and – thanks to the legacy of colonial and post-colonial looting – much of our wealth, originated elsewhere. Italian cooking might be unimaginable without tomatoes but, originating in South America, they were not widely used until the 19th century. ...

Some rulers once understood the power of pluralism. King Stephen I of Hungary, who reigned from 1001 to 1038, noted that the cultures and knowledge of foreigners enriched the realm, while “a country unified in language and customs is fragile and weak”. A thousand years later, Trump appears to have forgotten this obvious truth.

This sounds like a joke. Italy imported tomatoes, not South Americans.

Without immigration, there will, within a number of generations, be no Europe and no United Kingdom. ...

Perhaps this is why, in the new novel by the always prescient Ian McEwan, What We Can Know, set 100 years hence, the dominant global power is Nigeria, one of the few countries that today still has a fertility rate well above replacement, though it’s also falling fast.

I saw the Wakanda movie.

India has already out-reproduced the rest of the world. And it is not a dominant global power.