US-American view on refugees

Miller wrote:

Setanta wrote:

Miller/Foofie is working hard to trash this thread--Miller's anti-goyim bigotry working ...

What I find typical of certain threads is the inference that the U.S. population all think about the subjects that wind up as thread topics on this forum. Folks in the mythical Mayberry could care less about refugees, since they won't be coming to Mayberry. Over half of the U.S. cares more about NASCAR/rodeos/American football/new movies, etc. This country lives in the popular culture. Too many threads give the false impression that the U.S. seems to be populated mainly by Catholic intellectuals. What a crock, in my opinion.

Setanta wrote:

Saab, i suggest to you that Miller/Foofie is just trying to trash the thread and at the same time forward her bigotry. Don't bother with her, she has nothing to say.

I cannot answer for Miller, but my experience meeting midwesterners of mixed Scandanavian/German ancestry, the German side was always talked about proudly, the Scandanavian side was just perfunctorily acknowledged, in my opinion. Sort of like when someone with German Jewish and German Polish ancestry might be more vocal of their German Jewish ancestry, since Einstein was thought of as more German (than Austrian). But, your attempt at having mind reading capabilities for one's motives on a forum is just so Sentantish. But, don't accuse me of being an anti-Setantite.

I've never known any Polish folks named Sanders.

I've never known any Polish folks named Sanders.

Foofie wrote:

Setanta wrote:

Saab, i suggest to you that Miller/Foofie is just trying to trash the thread and at the same time forward her bigotry. Don't bother with her, she has nothing to say.

I cannot answer for Miller, but my experience meeting midwesterners of mixed Scandanavian/German ancestry, the German side was always talked about proudly, the Scandanavian side was just perfunctorily acknowledged, in my opinion. Sort of like when someone with German Jewish and German Polish ancestry might be more vocal of their German Jewish ancestry, since Einstein was thought of as more German (than Austrian). But, your attempt at having mind reading capabilities for one's motives on a forum is just so Sentantish. But, don't accuse me of being an anti-Setantite.

Very clever! Sounds like something out of a Woody Allen movie!

Miller wrote:

I've never known any Polish folks named Sanders.

Well, his father changed the family from Gutman to Sanders.

His father's family is actually from Galicia (Austria-Hungary at that time), while his mother's family is from the (formerly) Polish part of Russia.

Slopnice, where his father was born, is now situated in southern Poland.

I'd guess most Americans only know that Sanders is from a Jewish family.

I've never known any Polish folks named Sanders.

Your nuanced awareness might correlate as to why the EU may fall apart.

Foofie wrote:

I'd guess most Americans only know that Sanders is from a Jewish family.

TMiller wrote:

I've never known any Polish folks named Sanders.

I was reponding to the above.

Foofie wrote:

Your nuanced awareness might correlate as to why the EU may fall apart.

Historia est vitae magistra.m

My thought was in response to your nuanced derivation of the name Sanders.

When I see the numbers of refugees in West Germany between 1945 and 1950 I every time have difficulties to grasp how it could work so well in such a short time. No infrastructure, cities bombed etc.

How was Gutman converted to "Sanders"?

Asylum in the EU Member States
Record number of over 1.2 million first time
asylum seekers registered in 2015
[...]
More than a third applied for asylum in Germany
In 2015, the highest number of first time applicants was registered in Germany (with 441 800 first time applicants,
or 35% of all first time applicants in the EU Member States), followed by Hungary (174 400, or 14%), Sweden (156
100, or 12%), Austria (85 500, or 7%), Italy (83 200, or 7%) and France (70 600, or 6%). Compared with the
previous year, the number of first time asylum applicants in 2015 increased the most in Finland (+822%), ahead of
Hungary (+323%), Austria (+233%), Belgium (+178%), Spain (+167%) and Germany (+155%).
[...]
Highest number of first time applicants relative to the population in Hungary and Sweden
Compared with the population of each Member State, the highest number of registered first time applicants in 2015
was recorded in Hungary (17 699 first time applicants per million inhabitants), ahead of Sweden (16 016), Austria
(9 970), Finland (5 876) and Germany (5 441). In contrast, the lowest numbers were observed in Croatia (34
applicants per million inhabitants), Slovakia (50), Romania (62), Portugal (80) and Lithuania (93). In 2015, there
were on average 2 470 first time asylum applicants per million inhabitants in the EU Member States.
[...]
Almost a million asylum applications pending
Pending applications refer to all persons who have made, at any time, an application for international protection
which is still under consideration by the responsible national authority at the end of the reference period. It thus
refers to the “stock” of applications for which decisions are still pending. This indicator is meant to measure the
workload of the national authorities.
At the end of 2015, 922 800 applications for international protection in the EU Member States were still under
consideration by the responsible national authority. At the end of 2014, there were about half as many (489 300).
With 424 800 pending applications at the end of 2015 (or 46% of the EU total), Germany had the largest share in
the EU, ahead of Sweden (156 700, or 17%) and Italy (60 200, or 7%).
[...]