Re:Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War fo...
by pjc50 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:14AM
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If "mass immigration" makes war in Europe less likely then that's yet another thing in its favour.
But I don't think there's much of a correlation. People forget that migration was much easier administratively before WW1. Austria-Hungary was a multicultural state with a dozen languages whose residents could live anywhere within the borders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary#/media/File:Au...
Similarly the British Empire had free movement of people within it.
But I don't think there's much of a correlation. People forget that migration was much easier administratively before WW1. Austria-Hungary was a multicultural state with a dozen languages whose residents could live anywhere within the borders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary#/media/File:Au...
Similarly the British Empire had free movement of people within it.