Lately, studies have crowned the people of Denmark as the “Happiest People in the World”. Now it looks as if the Danes have decided that there is something they are not so happy about. Foreign immigrants.
Today the Danish government and the Danish People’s Party have made an agreement on a new policy regarding foreign immigrants, and what to do about them. The new plan, which is nothing short of bribery, says that if a foreign immigrant who has come to Denmark as an asylum seeker or to seek family reunification, will receive 100,000 Danish Kroner, or around $20,000 U.S. dollars, if they pack their bags and go back to where they came from.
The recent media attention on the country of Denmark (for example, Oprah’s show on women around the world) has focused on healthy eating, the welfare society, and how Denmark is at the top of the Pyramid of Civil Society, while the rest of the world is wishing they could get there.
One of the many flip sides to this false image is the growing immigrant population in large cities such as Copenhagen and Aarhus, where immigrants have been responsible for numerous shootings and stabbings on the streets. Now it seems that the problem has gotten so out of control that the only way to solve it is to pay the “trouble makers” who can’t integrate themselves into society to go pick on someone else.
Did I mention that the Danish government paid these people to come to their country in the first place? Oh, yeah, I wonder if giving a complete stranger a living wage to come into the country as an asylum seeker, and then do nothing, contributed to the problem…
