The End of a Culture

At this writing literally millions of Arab migrants are streaming across the borders separating the nations of Europe. Many are fleeing the warfare, and radical Islam which now threatens the survival of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, as we know it. Others who have joined the mass exodus are economic refugees, and simply wish to enhance their financial wherewithal.

It has and continues to be an amazing exodus with men, women, children and infants of every description walking, (with the emphasis on walking) over 1500 miles to what they might characterize as the Meccas of Austria, Germany and Sweden. Ultimately, some will end up in Great Britain, America and points beyond.

One cannot but watch live and video footage of these countless masses without being emotionally pulled into their plight. Hungarian policemen have pepper sprayed them, roughed them up, deceived them into boarding trains to inadequate refugee camps, and is currently completing a hundred mile long barbed wire fence along its border. Croatia, though initially sympathetic, ultimately put a hiatus on their travel. Germany, which represents the most welcoming of any nation thus far, recently made the decision that they’d had too much of a “good thing,” and for the moment has closed its border.

And whether one is sympathetic, or not so much, pro or con, for or against this unprecedented exodus of peoples moving from the Mideast, and adding a decidedly Arab bloodline to what has ‘til now has been overwhelmingly Germanic/Scandinavian/Norman/Anglo-Saxon mix, the fact remains that European culture is on the verge of irrevocable metamorphosis.

While statistics indicate that the percentage of population growth among the European Union nations hovers near zero, it is expected that with the onslaught of Arab refugees, and their generally higher birth rate, the historic “look” of Europe can’t help but change. If, as expected, the greatest assimilation (or lack thereof) of people groups since WWII occurs, Culture, Religion, Politics and even the Legal System will experience irrevocable change.

Stay tuned.

By William McDonald, PhD. Excerpt from "(Mc)Donald's Daily Diary" Vol. 8