okay, first of all you're getting awfully defensive and I did qualify my first reply with "This is purely anecdotal..."
So I'm open to being wrong about Croatia's attitude to having a immigrant community of muslims - it's just not what I saw.
"Its true that most refugees are trying to make it to Germany - but if Germany closes its doors, they wouldn't get stuck in the immediate neighbouring countries "
No, the Germans would never close the door per se, they'd just stall and delay things till the bordering countries end up having huge camps while the famous EU bureaucracy does it's thing. Macedonia was clever and quickly managed to get them all across the country and dump it off on the next guy. Croatia pulled off something similar.
And ofcourse Croatians aren't painting all muslims with the same brush - sorry if I gave that impression. But one group, the one they seemingly don't want, comes from a land of boogeymen full of religious extremism Al Qaeda and the IS while the other is their war-buddies/neighbors (and as far as I know hasn't yielded a single terrorist - though with all the money coming from Saudi and Turkey that may change..)
I'm not mixing up my countries, passage was granted b/c no one was concerned that they would stay in Croatia and they were just dumping the problem on to the next neighboring country. Everyone knows they're trying to go to Germany and the Nordic countries. The countries that border Austria/Germany obvious were a bit more concerned that they refugees wouldn't be let in and so they'd end up with all these people on their border.
When the gov't agreed to accept several thousand refugees several people told me they thought it was a horrible idea and that they don't need these communities in Croatia.
This is purely anecdotal, but countries that haven't actually been touched by terrorism seem to be a lot more terrified of terrorists than countries that have been. It's a lot more of a boogeyman when it's those-people-over-there-doing-crazy-things
I remember in Poland and Croatia people were so scared that a common sentiment was basically wanting to ban all muslims.. you know.. just-to-be-on-the-safe-side
So while yes, this is a scapegoat, people in China are actually scared of the terrorists.. it's bizarre
I've never actually seen a union used in a C++ codebase. What's the usecase? I know people use them in C for bitfields, but outside of embedded (which is almost always just pure C) that just doesn't seem to come up
You know it's funny, living now in China sometimes it feels a lot more free than the US. You can drink, smoke and piss anywhere, and you can go and buy basically whatever you want (except drugs), drive any way you want - as long as you're not really bothering other people no one really cares. It helps that the cops are more bored teenagers and less ex military assholes waiting to blow some holes in some meatbag. It's s bit of a free for all and sometimes it feels like a bit of fresh air
Like sure you can't talk about a few things or criticize the gov't, but I have better things to do anyways
I think the undercurrent that in implied is that there are countries like China who don't play by the normal rules of international espionage. Since they are so tightly coupled to Chinese industry they abuse their resources and power to feed domestic industry. To most people this seems very scummy.
Are there examples the other way? Where the US stole secrets and then handed them off to domestic companies? Maybe in defense? but otherwise?
So I'm open to being wrong about Croatia's attitude to having a immigrant community of muslims - it's just not what I saw.
"Its true that most refugees are trying to make it to Germany - but if Germany closes its doors, they wouldn't get stuck in the immediate neighbouring countries "
No, the Germans would never close the door per se, they'd just stall and delay things till the bordering countries end up having huge camps while the famous EU bureaucracy does it's thing. Macedonia was clever and quickly managed to get them all across the country and dump it off on the next guy. Croatia pulled off something similar.
And ofcourse Croatians aren't painting all muslims with the same brush - sorry if I gave that impression. But one group, the one they seemingly don't want, comes from a land of boogeymen full of religious extremism Al Qaeda and the IS while the other is their war-buddies/neighbors (and as far as I know hasn't yielded a single terrorist - though with all the money coming from Saudi and Turkey that may change..)