and, to me, this is not surprising. but, let us understand it: it is a consequence of an immigration policy that does not screen for education levels.

when you have an open door policy like europe has had, and i understand that the circumstances are dire in syria, but, nonetheless, when you let refugees in with little if any screening, then these refugees act as ambassadors for their entire religion and their entire ethnicity and opinions and perceptions are formed based on what people see in front of them: because, of course, many of the europeans that the refugees are coming into contact with are not particularly skilled or intelligent, themselves.

i do agree that the way the situation was handled in europe was shockingly poor, and that there are going to be long term circumstances. i mean, there's a "jungle" of refugees in calais. there are camps of hundreds or thousands of people. when the government lets this happen (and, again, i know it's hard), you have to expect the outcomes you're seeing.

i don't live in europe. i live in canada. and the government needs to understand that it's all in the implementation: the system that pearson designed works, and now is not the time to fuck with it - lest we see results like this begin to appear.

that means that we can't let the whole world in; it means that we need to address the problem at the source. a good sales strategy would be to convince the protestors that this is rational, just and correct. you won't convince all of them, but it is so obvious that i think that most of them can be convinced that wide open immigration is not the answer to the problems they're identifying.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/most-europeans-want-muslim-ban-immigration-control-middle-east-countries-syria-iran-iraq-poll-a7567301.html