In his 2008 book Et Delt Folk (“A Nation
Divided”), The Danish historian and writer Morten Uhrskov Jensen carefully went
through publicly available sources. He demonstrated that the opening up of his
country for mass immigration was arranged by just part of the population,
sometimes in the face of considerable popular opposition.

Roughly speaking, those representing the
political and media establishment and the upper classes were in favor of open
borders, whereas those from the lower classes were often opposed. This divide
is viewed by those from the upper segments of society as caused mainly by
racism, prejudice, ignorance and xenophobia.

Since the educated classes enjoyed a virtual
hegemony over public debate, they were able to define all opposition as hate
and intolerance, exemplified by people such as Pia Kjærsgaard of the Danish
People’s Party. The well-to-do themselves rarely lived in areas with many
immigrants and could afford to move, at least for a while, if that was needed.
They focused on the abstract and allegedly humanitarian aspects of mass
migration.

Immigrants are simply referred to as “new
countrymen,” who as if by magic always seem to enrich the natives with their
presence. In Denmark, multiculturalists have successfully managed to establish
the neologism nydansker or “new Danes,” a vibrant new breed of people currently
displacing the tired and boring “old Danes.”

For poorer people, immigration was a concrete
issue, as immigrants moved into their neighborhoods and went to school with
their children. To put it bluntly, for those with money, globalization
initially meant that they could travel on holidays to exotic lands and treat
the world as their playground. For those who were less well off, it meant that
the entire world suddenly moved into their street and took over their
children’s local playground.

When the Titanic during her maiden voyage
across the Atlantic Ocean struck an iceberg just before midnight on 14 April
1912, the first people who could see the water pouring in were the third-class
passengers who happened to be situated closest to the waterline. Meanwhile, the
richest passengers at the top were drinking fine cognac long after the ship had
started sinking. They didn’t realize what was going on for quite some time,
because they were further removed from the physical problem. The poor
passengers still unfortunately suffered the highest fatality rates, because the
wealthy benefitted from having privileged access to the lifeboats.

We see the same phenomenon on display today,
on a much larger scale. Having Islamophobia in Europe today is just as rational
as having icebergophobia on board the Titanic in 1912.

Uhrskov Jensen in 2012 published another book,
Indvandringens Pris (“The Price of Immigration”) about how much money non-European
mass immigration costs his native Denmark. His conclusion is that this cost is
great in terms of welfare payments and rising crime combined with declining
efficiency and technological innovation.

He shows through carefully researched
statistics that only certain Asian immigrants are able to keep up with northern
Europeans in the educational system. A few skilled immigrants from India or
elsewhere can compete, but mainly those from East Asia: Japanese, Koreans,
Chinese, and to some extent Vietnamese. All other non-Western immigrants show
lower levels of skill and competence than Europeans, many of them a lot lower.

It should be mentioned here that these numbers
correlate quite well with average IQ, where a few other Asians can compete with
Europeans, but primarily East Asians. Other ethnic groups cannot do so.
Although it has become taboo to say this in the modern Western world, it is
well-documented fact that IQ correlates well with economic level, for
individuals as well as for nations. The scholar Charles Murray has written much
about this.

Former professor Helmuth Nyborg at Aarhus
University in Denmark has conducted controversial research on the subject of
the genetic inheritance of intelligence. His conclusion is that today’s mass
immigration of non-Europeans will lead to an overall marked decline in the
average intelligence of the population, and by extension a significant decline
in social and economic competence, scientific progress, as well as
technological innovation.

For decades Westerners have been told that
immigration from less developed Third World countries is “good for the economy”
and will “pay for future pensions.” Morten Uhrskov Jensen proves conclusively
that this claim is fundamentally wrong, not just regarding Denmark or
Scandinavia but for other Western countries, too.

Certain private companies may enjoy short-term
benefits by having access to cheap labor and borderless export markets.
Socialist parties can cynically import a reliable voter base of backward
peoples who overwhelmingly vote for left-wing parties so they can receive
generous welfare payments from the high tax payments extracted from the
majority population, essentially forcing the white natives to fund their own colonization
by foreign peoples.




Second part of this essay here:
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/fjordman/the-price-of-european-immigration/

More infos here:
http://chromatism.net/fjordman/fjordmanfiles.htm