It's like you literally did not even read my post. Where did I say anything about primarily Slovakia? This is an EU wide issue. Also what the fuck does land have to do with it? Do you want the refugees to live in the 90% of Canadian land that is primarily forested or Arctic? Canada is the second largest country in the world and yet the majority of it's population is right near the US border in a handful of cities. Most of Canada is either frozen tundra or vast wilderness like Russia.
Yeah it might be cold and wilderness but there is still a mass land available along with huge natural resources, where people can potentially live. You are making it sound like it's an alien land that has no oxygen...Even if you discount Canada entirely, you still have USA which is more than double the land mass of EU and has nearly half as less population as the whole of EU.
I agree that Slovakia shouldn't have to shoulder the burden at all. But when they come out and say, we'll take refugees but only if their Christian, it says something. Whether that's right or wrong depends on you. Don't tell me Syrian Christians will have it any easier integrating into Slovakia or that they'll be accepted by Slovakian Christians.
Like I said, if Europe doesn't want to take these people in, address the elephant in the room why, don't keep playing whataboutism. These numbers are unsustainable. That's pretty much a given, and it goes beyond just Syria. Europe is getting thousands of migrants from North Africa, other middle eastern countries. What does it say when the UK doesn't even want Polish white migrants coming in? That Switzerland wants to limit EU migration, even from places like Germany?
There is no elephant in the room....The fact is that people from the EU and from African & Middle east simply are used to different rules/cultures and religion. Both sides in this argument will try and preserve their culture and this can be seen all over Europe and all across the world. This is basic human fear and protectionism that can be seen here.
You can see it all over in the UK. Here you have whole communities that are built by Indians/Pakistanis where 90% of the population from these communities are from these areas and you hardly see any British person. Same applies for the British, they usually don't move into this areas, because their lifestyle are not compatible with theirs.
This doesn't mean that anyone is being racist, it is simply the case of an Indian finding it easier to live in his community. He can use his own language, can have access to specialised Indian shops, where he can get food that he can't from a normal British shop etc. He feels more at home in his own community, something he is already used too. Exact same thing applies to an average British person. Sure this can be viewed as integration problem but at the end of the day, people move to an area freely where they find life to be the most of their liking. Nobody is forcing them to live there. Again I speak from experience, I live in a total British area and have never had any problems from anyone.
Slovakia is having the same fear and by them using the christian excuse has two effects. They believe that the two cultures might be easier to integrate but more importantly they simply dodge a large number of immigrants this way.
As for Switzerland, I am not too familiar with their policies, but it is clear that they are more protective about their whole country on numerous other policies. I mean they are not even in the EU and will never be since they clearly want to do things their own way. Switzerland has always been almost like a separate entity from the rest of Europe though recent history. Considering their economic standard, clearly this seems to be working for them and they clearly are very protective on any significant changes to their society.
Just because a society is protective of their culture and their standard, does not immediately mean they are racist.
You argument about UK and Polish is also simply not true. Again some people might not like them being here and are making a big fuss, especially some conservative right wing newspapers, but the majority of the population don't really give a damn. I can speak from my experience, I am a foreigner from eastern EU and have been living in the UK for 10 years now and I have never had any problems due to being a foreigner.
The same issues you see on the news about EU and their immigration problem is similar to the issue I see on the news about America and their Mexican immigration problem. You have a minority causing a mass hysteria about Mexicans and how a wall needs to be build to protect the USA. I can't speak from experience but I would guess that large percentage of Americans, don't have anything against Mexicans and it is pretty much the same here in the EU.
If anything you're argument about elephant in the room makes no sense. Which other continent on this planet, allows people from different EU countries (which speak different languages/culture/history/everything else) can freely move about with no border checks, go and settle in another EU country (as I have done) with minimal fuss and minimal paperwork. This same policies apply across the 28 member states.
I can move from the UK (where I been living for 10 years), back to my country or move to any other 28 member states and eventually be allowed to apply for that countries citizenship. I mean we can move freely to totally different countries and then apply for citizenship. Which other continent allows population this much freedom to move and live between different countries....If this racism problem really existed in such a large scale as portrayed in the foreign and some domestic media, then this free movement of people policy would never have ever even been brought up, let alone implemented.
