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1. Settlers are not migrants. Settlers leave an existing society, usually in groups, in order to create a new community, in a new and often distant territory. Imbued with a sense of collective purpose, they subscribe to a compact that defines the basis of the community they create and their relations with their mother country. Migrants do not create a new society, they move from one society to a different society. 17th & 18th century settlers and conquerors created societies that embodied the cultures and values they brought with them from their origin country, and created a first world civilization.

21st century economic migrants to vast welfare apparatuses first world countries and multi-billion dollar "refugee" resettlement industry are not the same.

2. "Multi cultural" societies are not the end of history, but rather a complete cultural anomaly afforded to certain countries by financial domination of the US led global order.

As the empire rots and recedes, and the elaborate network of printed money and taxes that keeps rival groups placated drys up, conflicts amongst racial and cultural lines will explode. You are seeing this in Denmark.

Not all countries have formal population registers. However, Scandinavian countries in particular are well-regarded in this respect, having government databases storing comprehensive and high-quality data of the full populations. Denmark is especially interesting because it is the only Scandinavian country to have properly quantified the net fiscal impact of immigration based on register data. This analysis has been conducted and described in the official Danish government report, Immigrants’ net contribution to the public finances in 2018. The net financial contribution of a person is conceptually simple: their total contribution to the state finances, subtracted their total costs.

The report finds that the total net contribution in 2018 by native Danish people was +41 billion DKK. The contribution of immigrants and their descendants was net negative at -24 billion DKK (Table b).

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