How is this sustainable? How can it be justified? How can Portugal remain Portugal in this situation? Because the migrants are largely “brown” and the natives “white,” any discussion of this is dismissed as “racist.” If it were happening in reverse, if hundreds of thousands of Portuguese were moving to Dhaka and it now had a majority Portuguese population, no one would hesitate to say that this constituted an invasion that would transform the native culture. But in this case, such things cannot be said.
“Portugal: Almost 300,000 of the roughly 500,000 inhabitants of Lisbon are immigrants,” ReMix News, October 13, 2022:
The number of immigrants residing in Portugal has never been so high, with almost 300,000 of the 500,000 residents of Lisbon labeled as immigrants, according to a report by the Globo Repórter news outlet….
Globo Repórter talked to people from Bangladesh, India, and some Brazilians, who have become the majority immigrants in Lisbon.
At the same time that this has created a diversity of cultures has created competition for jobs and housing. Since 2017, complaints of xenophobia in Portugal have increased by more than 430 percent, a dilemma that the city and the country itself have yet to resolve.
Informal work is also on the rise. The news outlet spoke with Bayê, who came to Lisbon from Dakar, Senegal. In the African country, he was a painter. In Portugal, he is an artisan. Bayê works continuously daily and earns up to €1,000 a month….
Dave says
This kind of story is rarely, if ever, covered by the U.S. media. Immigration from largely Muslim countries is not just an event but an ongoing, World altering, phenomenon. And because of partisan reluctance to just take a glance at the issue not a single thing will be learned. Before entertaining a thought over the problem it is deemed unworthy of investigation. When doubts and questions cross a left leaning mind another more powerful part of their brain orders the fortress gates closed and the draw bridge raised. This fear based reflexive response controls the minds of so many because it raises the real fear of being socially and professionally rejected. Some of the the bravest people in today’s World are those who publicly point out the facts and remain true to themselves in the face of the easily predictable backlash.
These people are never contradicted on the merits of their arguments. Instead they are judged and labeled. Even their friends will put up as much distance between themselves and the “extreme right wing fascist” they used to invite to their children’s birthday parties and sibling’s weddings. Their children will no longer be allowed to see or talk about “Uncle” John. These man made disasters all spring from the same imaginary fountain of ideological purity that will never exist. What is not imaginary is how this dream destroys people and cultures alike.
tim gallagher says
What an appalling situation. Lisbon is like the canary down the coal mine, a warning about what fate so many other formerly civilised western countries and cities will be like if the invasion by barbaric people is allowed to continue. So many countries will end up like third world crap holes and the once decent civilsation those countries had built will disappear down the drain.
Wellington says
I toured much of Portugal, tim gallagher, in 1994 and fell in love with the country. Of all continental European nations I have been to, Portugal is my favorite. The cuisine was superb, the wine excellent, the people so friendly and the artistic heritage of Portugal was everywhere—with churches, public squares, etc. and from small towns to large cities. Besides, Portuguese is one of the most beautiful languages on Earth.
I fear so much of this is being wiped away and for no good reason. A monumental folly.
tim gallagher says
I remember liking both Portugal and Spain a lot when I travelled in Europe back in 1982, Wellington. I preferred those two countries to the other European countries. It sounds like a disaster that is happening there.
Wellington says
Complaints of xenophobia in Portugal? This is how Westerners are regularly described when trying to preserve their civilization. Notice that only the West is held to this false standard and no other civilization or society is, as examples the Islamic world in its entirety or Japan.
The self-destruction of Western Europe continues. And which is why the last half century or so has been by far the most destructive half century for the West in all of Western history, making the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the middle ages from the 4th to 7th centuries look like nothing more than a temporary setback. Besides, the Germanic incursions in that time were perpetrated overwhelmingly by invaders who actually admired Rome, who admired the best of the West, and did not have massive ignorance about, or contempt for, classical civilization—contra presently.
And why has this massive folly in our era occurred? For utterly deficient reasons, like temporary economic gain or to show how tolerant the West is. What a waste, arguably the greatest waste of a civilization in all of man’s history. Beyond tragic and here’s a guarantee: Western Leftists will never comprehend how much they are presently in the process of destroying the greatest civilization ever established by man, so foolish and idiotic are they. Indeed, these Leftist rubes don’t even comprehend how great the West has been though all the while enjoying the many benefits of living within the Western sphere of mankind. The Age of Nonsense marches on unimpeded.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Wellington. Like you, I see western civilisation as the greatest achievement so I strongly disagree with all this bullshit these days about how the western world has been nothing but an evil force, colonising the world and being only destructive. We get plenty of this bullshit in Australia and I think that it is a load of rubbish wherever this nonsense has infected the minds of so many idiots throughout the world.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
You are correct, tim.
Western civilization has not been perfect, but – on balance – has created the greatest civilization in the history of man.
And it has gone to great lengths to rectify past mistakes…
tim gallagher says
That’s definitely the way I see things, James. I suppose I tend to say about these other civilisations, which we are supposed to think are so great, but achieved very little, OK, where are your Isaac Newtons, or your Galileos, where are your Beethovens, where are your Leonardo da Vincis, where are your Shakespeares?. They aren’t there because they don’t exist. Some of these non-western cultures achieved bugger all. And, as you say, western countries have tried to improve their behaviours, as in the Christians who abolished slavery unlike the Muslim knuckle draggers who seem to think that slavery is still OK.
Jim J says
“OK, where are your Isaac Newtons, or your Galileos, where are your Beethovens, where are your Leonardo da Vincis, where are your Shakespeares? They aren’t there because they don’t exist.”
Sadly, if things continue as they are without massive pushback soon, in a hundred years, most of the West’s achievements will be thrown down the Memory Hole and attributed to other cultures and societies. We have already been accused of “stealing” most of the advancements made in the last 500 years and our own historical memory is disappearing through the deliberate miseducation of the last couple of generations of our youth.
I think everyone who cares about our civilization should read “The War on The West” by Douglas Murray. You and James Lincoln have both touched on points that Murray brings up.
tim gallagher says
There is no doubt that what you say is true, Jim J. So many people in our western countries have bought the self loathing and utter bullshit that is being peddled by the left wing wanker brigade. I know quite a few left wing people and many of them seem to have bought the propaganda and want to put the boot into our western civilisation. I am surprised that they are so gullible and can’t see though the bullshit. I have seen Douglas Murray interviewed a few times and am impressed. I did get his book, I think it was called “The Death of Europe” out of the library and read some of it. I agree with his take on things. A book that I like and read a couple of times over the years, my copy is falling apart, and it is an old book, published in 1960, and I liked it is “The Western Intellectual Tradition” by Jacob Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish. It doesn’t sugar coat the history of the western world, but I thought it gave a bloody good basic history of our western civilisation. I imagine it would be hard to find a copy of it anywhere these days as it is so old.
somehistory says
I had come to know some very sweet girls from Portugal when they came to the States on school vacation to visit with their paternal grandmother. I have not heard from them in many years and hope they are okay.
“xenophobia ” is a dislike of others who are different. or from different, nations. There is a huge increase in this in Lisbon. And the article says it’s “a dilemma that the city and the country itself have yet to resolve.”
Now, a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones, is the definition of a dilemma.
Just how does the city and the country, or the writer of the article, believe they can “solve” this?
Are they going to expel one of the “alternatives” or are they intending making an attempt at forcing one of the “alternatives” to like the other?
it has been said that you “can’t legislate morality.” Knowing this, will the government attempt to make a law that says those born in Lisbon must, absolutely must, like all of the *migrants*?
If that doesn’t work, which group will they choose as the better “alternative”?
gravenimage says
Portugal: Almost 300,000 of the 500,000 residents of Lisbon are migrants
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I had no idea things were this bad in Lisbon–I had thought that Portugal was one of the saner European nations.
One of the most troubling things about Muslim immigration is the targeting of our great cities, and often our capitals–London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, and more. Culturally unsustainable, as it is intended to be.
somehistory says
mozlum terrorists have their “soft targets,” and they have the more complicated “hard targets,” and the taking over of major cities…is “forward fort establishment.”
somehistory says
the “migrants” have Lisbon by the throat…60% of the population
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“I had no idea things were this bad in Lisbon–I had thought that Portugal was one of the saner European nations.”
So did I.
Pew Research (2016) puts the muslim population of Portugal at 0.4%. Even a high migration scenario estimates the muslim population at 2.5% In 2050.
They must all be in Lisbon – and I had thought that that city was one of the better cities to visit in Europe…
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/
Hank says
The EU and its globalist left wing policies on Illegal Muslim migration and open borders contributed to the state of affairs we see in Lisbon. There are other dangerous factors now appearing that threaten western civilization. The greed for money is one reason that the west is falling apart. Here is one unexpected group that turns traitor for money. Everyone seems to be getting on the band-wagon to destroy western democratic civilization these days.
https://news.sky.com/story/chinas-armed-forces-recruiting-dozens-of-british-ex-military-pilots-in-threat-to-uk-interests-12723395
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/18/uk-officials-threat-alert-china-attempts-to-recruit-raf-pilots
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I can understand there being Brazilians in Portugal: after all, a common language is one of the minimum things someone needs to pick a country to go to. But Indians and Bangladeshis? The only Indians who speak Portuguese are a few Goanese Catholics of Portuguese descent, otherwise Portuguese is not a language understood in India, even among fluent English speakers. And Bangladesh is even more remote
It would seem that most of Europe, instead of publishing everything in immigrant languages, can turn off the spigot by only doing it in their own languages. Like if one had to know Portuese to be able to live comfortably in Portugal, I’m willing to bet that most of those immigrants would be gone faster than one could say, “Você tem que falar português se quiser que eu lide com você”
DDMisra says
By chance I happened to meet a friend from Goa, which was a Portuguese colony, in India.
The Goans follow Portuguese news just as the rest of India like to watch BBC.
He told me that the Portuguese will get the just reward for what they have done in Goa.
Same is the feeling of most of the Indians about Britain.