*Laughs* You know what I just thought of? "People smuggler always tell you that you get everything for free - they want customers, respectively: their money", but I really don't want to make accusations towards anyone. But even though, it gives me thinking how that is with the refugees that come here that paid thousands of Dollars just to get to Western Europe. If in half-way still decent countries these myths about Germany circulate - I also once encountered that myth with free education with somebody from the other side of the big lake -, should I be to believe that it's so much different in countries were people long for that kind of wealth that Western Europe called its own for such a long time? I wouldn't guess it's any different. But to these people, the impact of that myth is much stronger: It's like their last resort to look up to, like their salvation. When you take this myth away from them it's like taking all hope away from them that life could get any better than they know it. And that is a reason for why they don't believe it until they sit in an overcrowded refugee shelter where food is even a little scarce, where they get told they first need a permit to work to be able to get hired officially at all, where they face long queues and waiting time in bureaucracy matters, and where they get rid of their savings because the state says "you pay for your board and lodging first before anything like everyone else of our own poor people that gathered financial richnesses". That also would explain everything in willfully failed adaption to the customs and regulations over here and claims like prayer rooms even in ground schools. - They're coming here to experience salvation, they don't want to give up the way they lived before, they want to continue living like that only in Central Europe - with that wealth ensuring them a good life.
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But even though, it gives me thinking how that is with the refugees that come here that paid thousands of Dollars just to get to Western Europe. If in half-way still decent countries these myths about Germany circulate - I also once encountered that myth with free education with somebody from the other side of the big lake -, should I be to believe that it's so much different in countries were people long for that kind of wealth that Western Europe called its own for such a long time? I wouldn't guess it's any different.
But to these people, the impact of that myth is much stronger: It's like their last resort to look up to, like their salvation. When you take this myth away from them it's like taking all hope away from them that life could get any better than they know it.
And that is a reason for why they don't believe it until they sit in an overcrowded refugee shelter where food is even a little scarce, where they get told they first need a permit to work to be able to get hired officially at all, where they face long queues and waiting time in bureaucracy matters, and where they get rid of their savings because the state says "you pay for your board and lodging first before anything like everyone else of our own poor people that gathered financial richnesses".
That also would explain everything in willfully failed adaption to the customs and regulations over here and claims like prayer rooms even in ground schools. - They're coming here to experience salvation, they don't want to give up the way they lived before, they want to continue living like that only in Central Europe - with that wealth ensuring them a good life.