Some of you might have noticed my chatroom in the sidebar. This is intended to be a casual chat where people can speak to each other while visiting the blog. However, it is public and anyone can comment.
The regular Thursday meet-up will be in my private chatroom (details at the top of the page under DD Live) where you need a password from me to enter. For those of you who have visited before the password has stayed the same. If anyone else is interested in joining in tonight, please drop me an email at thedeviousdiva@gmail.com and I will let you know what the password is.
Times around the world:
18:00 – Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo
20:00 – London, Dublin, Lisboa
21:00 – Rome, Paris, Madrid, Tirana, Berlin, Lagos
22:00 – Athens, Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Minsk, Johannesburg
23:00 – Nairobi, Baghdad, Moscow
23:30 – Tehran
00:30 – Mumbai, Delhi
04:00 – Beijing
12:00 – Los Angeles, Vancouver
13:00 – Denver, Edmonton
14:00 – Chicago, Dallas
15:00 – New York, Toronto, Kingston
16:00 – Halifax, St Johns
Hope to see you there!
A very poor article: typical journalistic crap. It has been the case for more than a decade that Greek schools in certain regions (e.g. Crete) have stayed open only because of Bulgarian and Albanian children. ON average, foreign births in Greece are 10% or more of births, but this doesnt measure the total number of non-Greek children in schools. The data from the state are a mess, but it is very clear that there are massive regional differences.
And this situation is not specific to Greece: all of Europe has exactly the same situation. In Germany, the pension system has been propped up for 20 years by immigrants.
When people know these facts, they might begin to understand why this racist mentality that Greeks are now showing is so ridiculous. Greece needs immigrants in very large numbers — although there may be problems associated with their legal status, but mainly caused by Greek stupidity and arrogance.
Xenophobe,
I think you’re being slightly unfair ^. The UK needs immigrants to run the NHS, build the 2012 Olympics, pick the lettuces, care for the elderly in care homes, and for many similar reasons that Greece needs them. But the UK and every EU country is deporting ILLEGAL immigrants just like Greece but you seem to be suggesting that only Greece is guilty of being arrogant and stupid in this regard….hypocrite….
Ehhh
the article was not talking about immigration. It was talking about the demographic problems of europe. The oly point it made about immigration is that while short term it alleviates the problem, long term the immigrants are going to face the same problems Europeans face child wise, especially if the social explanation (inflexible marital norms) holds. The unwillingness of men to help in the rearing of the children in more traditional societies, means that working women, as well as stay at home moms have a de-incentive to make many children. Again if it holds (I buy it suffice to say, from examples here in the U.S, were parents who are both willing to help in child rearing have 3 to 8 children on average). The new generation of academics especailly is rather child rich.