Examples of strategic cruelty and strategic harassment are abundant in Germany after 2015. In 2015 the German government admitted a million Syrian refugees. This policy angered a segment of German population. As a result harassment, cruelty and violence against all visible immigrants has intensified. The angry mobs not only target the new refugees but they are making life more difficult for all visible minorities - even third and fourth generation immigrants whose families have lived in Germany for 60 or 70 years.
Domestic White Flight: As the non-white population of a community increases, the whites that feel concerned about the I/N ratio might relocate to states with smaller non-white population. Studies of residential choice in the United States based on census data provide strong evidence for domestic white flight among communities and among states. These relocations defeat the progressive federal policies that try to generate more diverse communities. They also lead to geographic and political divide among more diverse states and states with smaller non-white population. This geographic divide at state level, in turn, will lead to a liberal-conservative political divide over a wide range of socio-economic policies.
White Flight to Europe
While traditionally the trans-Atlantic flow of immigration has always been east to west (from Europe to North America), high I/N ratio might lead to a reverse migration by some white Americans to European countries with a solid white majority. While imposing severe restrictions on non-white migration many European countries welcome white immigrants, particularly their own diaspora population. The reason is that they, on one hand they experience low fertility among their native population and on the other hand their are worried about high fertility among their non-European population. As a result return to Europe is relatively easy for any white American that can prove his/her European heritage. When Argentina faced a severe economic crisis in 1990s, some Argentinians where able to migrate to Italy simply because of their Italian last name.
2) Immigrant Experience and Ratio Anxiety
When the immigrant community is relatively small and it is not perceived as a threat to the population ratio of the native population, the native population has a tolerant and positive attitude toward the immigrants. If the population of immigrants grows larger and becomes a concern for the natives then the native attitude toward immigrants will change and they will face a hostile social environment. Immigrant
Suburban atomization and isolation: Some American suburbs have undergone a visible transformation as a result of the rapid influx of high-wealth, highly educated professional families from non-European ethnic groups. As the number of these visibly different residents in a community increases, the natives become more anxious about their "other-looking" neighbors. They try to minimize their interactions with these new neighbors and, as many social scientists have observed, the large number of new neighbors will result in the atomization of these communities. The sense of common values and community spirit will decline as neighbors become more distant from each other.
Gone are the days that neighbors knew each other and they had occasional social interactions. Now each resident family mostly socializes with members of its own ethnic community and the interactions among neighbors of various ethnic communities is limited. In prosperous suburbs everyone is nice and polite but no one shows much interest in others. Not only the natives don't show much interest in "others", but the immigrant/ethnic families live in isolation from each other as well.
On a typical street in a suburban town you can find families of Chinese, Indian, Russian, Iranian, Arab and other ethnicities plus ordinary euro-Americans. However, it is rare to see social interactions (such as friendships, dinner invitations, ") between two neighbors of different ethnic backgrounds. Many residents don't even know the na e of their next door neighbors. This is happening at the same time that residents are well aware of the growing ethno-isolation. If the ethnic balance of these communities shifts even further in favor of new immigrants, the situation is likely to get worse.
Education-obsessed neighborhoods: We are also observing a new development in some high-income suburbs that have developed a positive reputation for their education systems. These communities are very attractive to ethnic groups that put a high value on education of their children. However, as the ethnic mix changes and the share of these ethnic groups increases, some native families with school age children stay away from these communities because they are worried that most students in public schools of these communities will be so competitive that their children will be in a disadvantage.
This perception will keep away some families and lead to an even larger concentration of education-oriented ethnic groups in these communities. In a 2011 academic article Albert Saiz and Susan Wachter provide evidence of white flight from neighborhoods that have experienced rapid increase in immigration inflow. In a related 2013 study Tomas Jimmez and Adam Horowitz look at how the norms of achievement and success have changed in a California community with the rise of Asian population.
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