“You racist bastard!” said once a stand-up comedian named Jeff Dunham in the form of a terrorist puppet called Achmed.

Whereas immigration once was a surplus for the population, bringing knowledge and manpower, it is now the largest disgrace a nation faces. These “other” people, with their different cultures, alternative ways of thinking and behaving, think they can move to a country, just like that, and settle to live there, taking advantage of the country’s resources and welfare.

When countries couldn’t afford to teach these additions to the population the primary language, making the immigrants outcasts of the society, misunderstood and discriminated, the immigrants, those who were desperate and destructive enough, turned to the underground, illegal activities and so forth. This did not at all help their situation, but make it worse, giving an overall image of people from a certain culture to be more crime-prone than others, further undermining their chances to fit into society.

This again, was used by politicians and other pseudo-intellectuals to advocate for lesser immigration and harder control. What people failed to realise was that the argument is an argument from ignorance, building on the fact that, because the situation was handled badly from the beginning, and gave negative More >