Quote (Black XistenZ @ 22 Nov 2019 00:55)
Interesting stats. Some random thoughts:
- regarding reform vs revolution: I think it depends a lot on the historical experience with reforms and revolution within the various countries. France and Germany have experienced reforms which were quite bad for ordinary people in recent years, so support for this approach is muted. Austria, Italy, Germany and Spain have made some very bad experiences with political revolutions, so people in these countries are more against it than the youth of countries with successful revolutions (France, Poland).
- regarding the "nationals should be preferred over foreigners" question: Spain is really the outlier in this regard. Is it perhaps because you have very limited social security compared with the other countries, so that treating citizens and foreigners equally amounts to less of a "devaluation of citizenship/destruction of privileges"?
well, germany, austria and france are the major destination of the non-EU migrants arriving in Europe. they bear the brunt of the burden in the long run, so they imho are more outspoken in their rejection of this type of migration. a larger share of their population wants to reduce the burden that has to be shouldered versus insisting on a quota solution which has already proven to be politically infeasible. that Spain and Italy, the countries of first arrival, prefer a quota solution doesnt surprise me.
Not surprising. Poland is one of the few countries in the Western world where a significant chunk of the population has seen a big jump in their economic situation/standard of living thanks to capitalism/hard work in recent years. Elsewhere, the young generation tends to be more sceptical of capitalism, probably due to the experience with high youth unemployment, student loan debt, paltry wages for entry-level jobs, untenable rent in big cities with job opportunities, and of course the big "innocence lost"-experience during the great recession of 2009.
Well, like I've said in other occasions, most immigrants are well integrated here. Especially the kids of immigrants... it's not like in other European countries were they live in ghetto's for life and you see 4th generation nationals still identifying as citizens of whatever country their great grandparents came from.
I very often see kids and teenagers... Spaniards, Latin Americans, Chinese, Moroccans, Romanians... they mix into the the same group and act like any homogeneous group of Spaniards would. It wouldn't make much sense if a society of Spaniards that grew up in this environment would believe that his best friend Ahmed from 5th grade or his first girlfriend Mei Ling, who worked just as hard as him in school, should be treated as second class citizens.
The only serious pressure immigration puts on our social services is in regards to things like public nursery schools, where are somewhat saturated despite our low birth rates and can sometimes require the parents to wait a few months before they can let enroll their kid. Although this of course isn't generally a concern for people in their 20s, which is the poll's sample. The percentage of people in favour of equal treatment would shrink if people from older age groups were asked about this... but I wouldn't be surprised if they still kept a majority in most working age age groups.