were prone to alcoholism and violence because they sure as hell didn't have access to mental health plans. And then there's the way men are raised in any culture - swallow that shit, keep it down, be the man, don't cry, provide.
Huge issues. And I get it, I could talk about this for days! I was thinking more along the lines of sexual assault outside the home, of which there has also been a strong wave (as well as thieving, battery, etc.) perpetrated heavily by immigrants - things locals in cities (esp. Westerners) know, but which seldom make it to the news, perhaps to not cause strife with the respective country's very pro-immigration views, I don't really know.
Most immigrants here are so bloody grateful to be here they work hard and keep their heads down.
It's so important not to forget that is also the case for many.
Yet we have definitely jumped on the bandwagon of far right angst going on with the rest of the world.
It certainly seems to be a rising trend. We were on the leftist bandwagon for a while, but now it seems increasingly to be the other way around. I'm terrified where that might lead us, also. I was just listening to a podcast discussing how you should be worried more not about the other "side" (be it left or right), but rather the extremists on your own side.
Id hate to be an immigrant anywhere right now.
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Bandwagons of any kind are ill advisable.
God I'm pretty sure there would be lynchings if immigrants started behaving that way here. That's fucking terrible. I'm glad I don't live in Europe tbh though I miss it terribly.