There are roughly 1.2 million "foreign students" in Australia (4.4% of the Australian population), only 500,000 of which are actually studying. The whole institution has effectively turned into a backdoor UberEats visa. A case study in the problems with expanding student visas.
In 2025, "student visas" in the Anglosphere have effectively become a backdoor to the labor market. The problem is worst in Canada, followed closely by Australia, Britain, and New Zealand, but it's a problem in the US too (OPT), and we have birthright citizenship.
Quick thread on "white flight" in the Bronx. In 1950, the Bronx was over 90% white. Between 1970 and 1980, the absolute number of whites dropped by half, partially replaced not by blacks but by new immigrant minorities (Puerto Ricans, Hondurans, Vietnamese, etc).
From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Bronx was known for its tranquility, with children playing outside unaccompanied, bikes and scooters left unattended, and doors left ajar for fresh air (!).
This changed in the 60s/70s, when black and Hispanic residents entered the Bronx en masse, attracted by public housing and rent-controlled apartments. For some reason, crime and drug use exploded around the same time. Knives, mugging, shootings, drugs, gang warfare.
A few excerpts from the 1968 book "Danger in Washington," about 20 years experience in Washington DC public schools, serving as head of the system for decades. Had a much longer thread, but the site ate it. Author is a postwar liberal overtaken by the 60s Cultural Revolution.
The author, Carl Hansen, moved from Omaha, Nebraska to DC to join the public school system there. He was shocked and horrified by segregation in DC, which he regarded as evil, and made up his mind to do all he could to oppose it.
By 1954, pretty much all DC was desegregated except the schools. Basically the whole DC govt and school system was thus prepared and eager to comply when Brown v Board was decided.
If democracy means unlimited pensions and Pakistanis, of course it won't be popular. The prestige of democracy came from the fact that in the late 20th century democratic countries were world-historically rich, stable, powerful, and internally peaceful.
Fact of the matter is that most of the winning Cold War democratic bloc has been in very noticeable decline since 2008. In my view, mostly because of extremely destructive social/legal changes in the 60s that undermined the basis of our civilization.
The US has had actual economic growth thanks mostly to tech and fracking, but even worse social decay.
1Disagree. 85.9 to 77.4 is like going from Argentina to Kenya. This is one reason why getting some sort of racist or nativist political consensus is so urgent from a "keep the power on" perspective. If half the political spectrum is pro-Open Borders when Africa's pop doubles...
Even ignoring absolutely everything else, the default future of the rich world without severe immigration restriction is like 3/4 African + (unselected) South Asian. That's civilization-ending. We need a consensus for restriction on *some* basis ASAP.
This in turn is the single biggest reason mass skilled immigration is fatal: skilled immigrants tend to see themselves as *immigrants* (rather than Americans, or civilized, high IQ individuals, or some other identity that could oppose this) and oppose restrictions on that basis.
Destroy your society with welfare-parasite-rapists vs with welfare-parasite-rapists aligned with intelligent foreign subversives who can take over. Not as though Britain has actually benefitted from nonwhite immigration, "we're going to have a civil war" is now mainstream.
I'm sure everyone who follows me has seen the "Britain immigration charts" a few times, but I'll post them again here. Severe 21st century economic dysfunction, declining physical capital stock per person.
The Usual Suspects are criminal in Britain as they are in the rest of Europe, Tories quadrupled Pakistani immigration, British industrial economy is collapsing, the % of net fiscal burdens keeps going up.
Smarter people learn to cooperate more in Prisoner's Dilemmas over iterations (blue: higher Raven's Matrices score, red: lower Raven's Matrices score). This is plausibly one of the reasons for the "Hive Mind" effect (national IQ being more important than personal IQ).
Apropos of nothing: immigration lowers national IQ almost everywhere.