Refugees

in German published 2018-1

We humans are individuals who have to find their way in the world. However, we are also social beings who seek support and affirmation in society. By nature, we are made to seek support and affirmation from like-minded people or from people who are as similar to us as possible. When it comes to people with other skin colors or ways of life, we only feel comfortable when we have established that they are just like we are in terms of what makes them tick. People with a rosy worldview and do-gooders will reject this idea and assert that they do not have this "primal" feeling. However, I am convinced that everyone has this primal feeling, although it is not equally easy for everyone to override it. Nor can it serve as an excuse to surround yourself only with similar or like-minded people and to declassify everyone else.

The refugee problem can cause us inner anguish. We see the misery in which a large proportion of the people in the world live. However, even if we take on a great number, we can only accept a small fraction of the people who want to come to our country.

It costs a great deal of money to integrate a refugee or a migrant. With this money, 10 - 100 people could be helped in the Middle East or in Africa.

The stream of refugees cannot be reduced with development aid in the medium term! On the contrary, due to more development aid more people have access to a television, where they see what "paradisiacal states" we live in, and increasing numbers of people raise between 3,000 and 10,000 euros to pay smugglers (escape agents?) to escape to Europe.

So far, refugees coming from Africa hail from North and East Africa. In the future, refugees from Central Africa will come too, for example from the Republic of Congo or the Central African Republic, where the population is growing exponentially.

Having said that, of course, I also believe that development aid is very important, especially if it is self-help.
With do-gooder thinking, we often support the wrong people. If we allow ourselves to be guided by our feelings, we will cause crisis countries even greater problems.

We promote unrest and conflicts in third world countries with our asylum law!

When they travel to a third world country and are asked by a young man there: What do I have to do to get asylum in Europe? Then they would have to tell him that he must oppose the government to such an extent that he ends up in prison for a few weeks. He is subsequently a victim of political persecution and almost certainly qualifies for asylum.

The reasons he is being persecuted are irrelevant for the asylum authorities in Europe. He may have committed Sunni violence against Shiites, or he may have committed violence against Sunnis as a Shiite, he may have participated in mass shootings as an IS fighter. If he fails to mention this and says he is threatened with life and limb, he will obtain asylum.

Young men should not flee crisis areas, but seek peaceful solutions in their countries and then help rebuild them.

This could be seen as an empty claim, but I do not think I would leave my country as a refugee if it was in crisis.