Really, the best thing is to remember we're all just human beings, and should try our best to try and look after one another as best as possible.
For instance, my country only started existing in 1991. But we have written records of people speaking our language and thinking of themselves as us going back to 800 AD. Germany can trace its origins straight back to The Holy Roman Empire, the ruling classes of which spoke German, thought of themselves as Germanic, had the same crest as Germany uses now, and started existing as a state in 962 AD.
And so on.
It's less about genetics and more about language.
So you get situations where 'low skilled' jobs pay peanuts, but end up being taken by people who send the money back abroad where the amount is more valuable than in the UK. It can sometimes lead to people from poorer backgrounds not getting these basic jobs because the employers know they'll want a wage they can actually live on.
That said, that's not really an issue with immigration specifically; anyone who immigrates to the area and knows about the minimum wage and decent working conditions will also find it more difficult to get a job.
No doublethink involved, as long as you see history as a continuum, rather than believing in a fixed set of norms (typically your own, no offense) as an absolute ideal "best" transcending space and time.
The same with immigration, then. Psychologically is even worse maybe, because instead of an overtly foreign power coming to conquer your land it's your own very government selling your society.
> it's your own very government selling your society.
It's as much "your" government as it is mine, and I don't feel like they're selling anything, in this particular case.
If you think freedom of movement is bad, do you think capital should also be controlled? If not, why should money be free to flow, but not people? To artificially create "salary jails" to exploit? If you assume that money should move to maximize its potential, then the same should be allowed for people, surely?
Freedom of movement and freedom of enterprise are amongst the highest achievements of human civilization, which we paid for with millions of deaths in the XX and XIX century.
History hasn't ended up yet. I think we're going to see how far the string can be tensed, and whether that multi-culti "solution" isn't the genesis of new strife. Things aren't looking bright.
> If you think freedom of movement is bad, do you think capital should also be controlled?
Actually yes, in moderation. I used to lean libertarian, but not anymore. But that's another talk.
> then the same should be allowed for people, surely?
Why? Capital at least doesn't behead you, people do.
This is off topic, but what is up with the Roman numerals when referring to centuries?
I tried googling it but came up empty. I can't find any authoritative source for this being a thing in any particular dialect of English and at least one person I've seen using this was a native Russian speaker. Google results only indicate that this is common in Spanish and maybe Polish.
Am I missing something? Is this a thing in American or British academia? Is it part of some popular newspaper's house styles? As a non-native speaker I find this incredibly peculiar.
With price a consequence of demand, <all> Britons on average salary (about $38K pa) have given up any hope whatsoever of buying their own home thanks to demand exacerbated by an influx of immigrants unprecedented in any of the last two centuries. Indeed even professionals earning around $150K are very hard pushed. Of course planning permission & other factors have played a role in this but unquestionably, Britain is overcrowded and folk-in-the-street looking for jobs and accommodation are suffering thanks largely to a smug rich elite who accumulate moral brownie points opining on the value of immigration. I would have thought that enough is enough.
All this is redolent of vitamins: "If Y mg of vitamin X is good for you then Y*10 mg is ten times as good for you!". Really?
Britain is not "overcrowded". If you don't want to live in expensive London, then move.
The main reason we need working age immigration is our ageing population. Our retiree population is set to massively inflate over the next few decades. Unless our otherwise shrinking working age population wants to be financially buried under the costs of supporting them, we need to support our working age population size and the only way to do that is through immigration.