(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
There is a demographic crisis in Europe. We do not produce enough children, the population is on the way down, we do not have enough labor and in the long run the whole of European civilization can be destroyed, the crisis warnings.
We do not have enough money to sustain a severe and ever-growing wave of public welfare either.
It affects the economy, must know. Frames where it pains the most, namely the whole basis for consumption growth. That is why Europe has started talking about controlled labor immigration to keep the wheels going. Controlled in the sense that labor immigrants can be evicted if they are no longer needed.
But it is not enough. The need for labor will be formidable for the next 50 years. Because we are closing our borders to keep Europe clean and white, we have only ourselves to thank. We will notice it in a few decades.
Different then with the US. There, immigrants float almost freely across the borders, a strange phenomenon considering the very rigid surveillance of the surrounding areas towards Mexico.
In the last ten years, the United States population has grown by 32.7 million people. This is an increase of 13.2 percent, the highest in recent American history.
Spanish-Americans
The results of the 2000 census were recently published. The United States population is now at 281.421.906 people.
These are the so-called Hispanics which accounts for the largest increase. They come legally or illegally from countries south of the United States; Mexico and Central America, and are often young and urban. Spanish-American society in the United States has increased by 60 percent since 1990, when the previous census was conducted. And they are about to pass, in number, the black minority.
About eleven million of the immigrants – that is, of all the 32.7 million – come illegally. This is twice as many as the researchers had expected. The severe and unregistered immigration brings out the wrinkles on the foreheads of both economists and politicians. The question many ask is whether the United States is able to absorb such a high proportion of presumably rootless immigrants.
Or whether the country is capable of accommodating over three million immigrants at all every year; in average.
But there is only one side to the issue. It's not even the most important side of the issue. For the most important, and the positive, thing in the demographic context is that the United States is boiling with a dynamic and creative chaos that gives life to cities that ten years ago were almost dead from lack of human "input."
"The United States is ending the century as we began," he wrote USA Today with marked, American pride. "With unparalleled growth and dynamism in the industrialized world."
Revitalizing cities
It's a creative chaos, Americans pretend to mean. Big cities are being revitalized, such as New York where the population has increased from seven to eight million in the last ten years.
Houston, Dallas and San Antonio in Texas have gained twenty percent during this period, and then we are talking about population growth. Phoenix has grown by 34.3 percent, but part of this growth is also due to whites in California moving away from the pressure of hispanics there – to be honest.
Chicago, for its part, has succeeded in reversing the decline in the population that has ridden the city like a mare for the past 50 years. There, Hispanics now make up a quarter of the total population, compared to a fifth ten years ago. Plus, the city also accepts a whole slew of Asian immigrants each year.
In the somewhat smaller cities, between 250.000 and two million inhabitants, the positive effect of immigration has been even more evident, comments in the census say.
it gives renewed strength to areas outside the old centers in the north-east and midwest. The demographic – and thus also economic – center of gravity is more and more in the south and in the west. This is where population growth is greatest.
But it is also the case that the population is increasing the fifty states. And those that are growing the most are Nevada (+ 66 percent), Arizona (+ 40 percent), Utah (+ 30 percent) and Colorado (+ 30 percent).
The whites in the minority
Hispanics 46 percent, white non-Hispanics 32 percent, blacks 12 percent, Asians 11 percent and "multi-ethnic" five percent.
Hispanics flock to unions like never before. It has led to a revitalization of the American labor movement, and it is not least a completely new phenomenon in the traditionally very anti-union city of Los Angeles…
