Denmark's Immigration Policy: Danes Should Not Become the Minority in Denmark

[Theudanaz]

Danes re-elected "hardliner" Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
I hope the government will crack down on immigrants as promised.
The problem is, this government makes a lot of promises.
Denmark can't take much more of these so-called asylum seekers
who don't wish to integrate, and who take vacations in their home
countries often (which they are supposed to have left for persecution!).

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...k_elections_dc

[Fraxinus Excelsior]

Danes re-elected "hardliner" Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
I hope the government will crack down on immigrants as promised.
The problem is, this government makes a lot of promises.
Denmark can't take much more of these so-called asylum seekers
who don't wish to integrate, and who take vacations in their home
countries often (which they are supposed to have left for persecution!).

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...k_elections_dc

I hope so as well; but, unfortunately, some idiots (politicians in particular) actually support non-Europid immigration to Scandinavia.

[Theudanaz]

Immigrants and refugees in Denmark are buying up land and building large villas in their original homelands. But the streams of wealth often pass by the local populations, because the costs of living are squeezed in the weather. Islamabad, Pakistan




Four billion crowns, equivalent to one-third of the total Danish uhlan (sic = ? foreign) assistance of 12 billion crowns. Refugees and immigrants in Denmark sent almost as much much home last year to their birth countries, according to the latest numbers from the world's bank Jylland post has gotten estimates of.



Immigrants in Denmark send home the second most in comparison with number of inhabitants; 100 crowns less per year than immigrants in Norway. Especially Turks, Pakistanis and Iranis send home a lot of money. According to OECD, which has specified the numbers, they sent home in the year 2000 respectively 534, 108 and 76 million crowns to their birth countries from Denmark.



"It is money that has a colossal meaning for Pakistan," says Dr. Azizullah Khattak, director of statistics in the State Bank of Pakistan in Islamabad.



Pakistan has registered record high amounts sent from guest workers in other countries the last three years. The money constitutes today six percent of the country's gross national product, equivalent to about 21 billion crowns. But the money isn't spreading easily everywhere.
Abdul Quyyum Bhatti is the mayor of the town of Kharian in an area popularly called "Little Scandinavia", southeast of Pakistan's capital Islamabad. This is where almost all Danish and Norwegian Pakistani's have their roots. "The rich get richer, and the poor poorer. Those who don't have family in Denmark don't have the ability to live here, because danish-pakistanis squeeze the rent prices up by buying land. Only a few of them are doing something for the local community. Most don't do anything. They build palaces and then we onliy see them when they're on vacation," he says.

http://www.jp.dk/indland/artikel:aid=3114308/

[Oskorei]

The ones with their own palaces will be easy to repatriate.

[Theudanaz]

If I was God for a day... or better, Danish secretary of immigration...

[Theudanaz]

Young immigrants do poorly on the military boards' written test.

Integration Consultant: It already is going wrong in kindergarten.
(TV AVISEN 21:00)

28 percent of all immigrants flunk the IQ test on the military boards, while the number is only seven percent among Danes. This is shown in a report from the Military Academy.

The examination was given from september 2003 till june 2004 and is based on 22,646 boards results.

According to the report verbal problems might not only explain the great discrepency in the boards' written test.

The research also points out that the cause could be a lack of motivation, and that young immigrants have parents who came to Denmark without an education in their home country.

Immigrant Children Understimulated:

Military academy chief psychologist, Stig Meincke, also thinks that the main explanation is that immigrant children are understimulated at home.

"They aren't getting stimulated in the same way that danish kids are. You have to be stimulated to develop a talent, and it's not easy if you're alone too much and aren't interacting with other people," said Stig Meincke to TV-avisen.

According to Stig Meincke children and youth typically face demands and challenges in kindergarten or recreation centers.

Boards statistics:
DK ET
Boards-treated, number 21.167 1.479
Qualifying % 61,1 45,3
Physical, qualifying limit % 11,3 8,0
Physical, not qualifying % 20,7 18,6
Written, not qualifying % 4,7 19,3
Physical / Written, not qualifying% 2,1 8,8
Total 100 100

Less than qualifying (in all physical) % 34,1 35,4
Less than qualifying (in all written) % 6,8 28,1

DK = Danes, ET = Immigrants and recent arrivals


"That's why the society has to ensure that immigrants get into kindergarten and recreation centers early and, taken as a whole, get integrated into the danish society," he said.

They lack language and concepts

According to school inspector Olav Nielsen at Humlehave school in Vollsmose in Odense, many young immigrants lack both linguistic and conceptual preparedness, for instance vocabulary.

"A lot of young people grow up in families with lots of children in environments with relatively poor stimulation. And if you don't have language or concepts, you have a hard time solving complicated tasks," said Olav Nielsen. He thinks that in the home there is scarce interest in the kids' education.

In light of the examination Olav Nielsen invites society to help immigrants get to work having an education.

"It is the key to solving many of the social problems that are taking the headlines in the press all the time," he said.

Translated from
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/art...ticleID=260213

[Oskorei]

According to the report verbal problems might not only explain the great discrepency in the boards' written test.

The research also points out that the cause could be a lack of motivation, and that young immigrants have parents who came to Denmark without an education in their home country.

Immigrant Children Understimulated:

Military academy chief psychologist, Stig Meincke, also thinks that the main explanation is that immigrant children are understimulated at home.

I wonder if the results are the same as they get in their home-countries. In that case it should be explained using genetics, not language and "motivation". But of course that is a modern taboo.

[QuietWind]

This sounds like the same sort of reasoning and arguements often given in America for the low IQ, high drop out rates, etc. of minorities. They blame it on the lack of parental education and an unstimulating environment at an early age. They blame it on motivational issues and the cultural attitudes of the people towards tests and education. They even blame the tests as being biased. They create huge programs like headstart designed to give disadvantaged children a good start in school and provide them with equal stimulation and learning experiences early in life. The results of headstart programs are actually poor. Studies have found that as long as a child stays enrolled in head start throughout elementary school, the child does indeed maintain an at least average educational standing. As soon as enrollment in the program ceases (for whatever reason) the child slowly declines and slips back to their pre-headstart level of aptitude. Although the long term results of headstart programs show a poor outcome, taxpayers are constantly throwing more and more money into the programs.

[GreenHeart]

Blame it on anything but the fact that they are inferior...

[Hardwig]

Why the Danish people are more conscious about immigration issues than other Europeans? I heard that among the Scandinavians they are known for their growing aversion to foreigners especially middle-easterners.The Danish Government also sent troops to Iraq ,is the Danish people approving this action? Danish opinions are welcome of course..http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4276963.stm