re: Training / drill recommendations for a novice footballer

It's no problem. What is a very interesting question for me is posing if the Warsaw Pact didn't exist, it is unlikely that Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands would never have sought worker agreements with countries in MENA, thereby avoiding the Muslim question entirely. Similarly, if Portugal and Spain were not fascist, there would have been a greater degree of emigration from those countries to the richer central European countries, during the 60's, which would have also mitigated the need for immigration.

At the same time, without those worker agreements, many Muslim nations would have struggled, even more than they did, to deal with the massive population growth that occurred after various independence movements. Emigration from Muslim countries eased population pressures and also created wealth in the form of remittances as well as knowledge transfer. It's virtually the same thing that China and India have done with their diasporas. Now that the TFR of Muslim countries is tending downwards, it would be very easy to imagine repatriation occurring, though in some ways, repatriation is harder, with the case of Japanese-Brazilians being one of the primary case studies.

Honestly, the Muslim issue in Europe contains so many what-ifs, all of them working chaotically to make the situation both unsustainable and to give the appearance that it is worse than it is. The colonial system worked very hard to destroy localized versions of Islam, which often relied on Sufi orders. It's only in the absence of those versions that a globalized version like Salafism could even take hold. Once you have a disaffected class of young men, as America often has had with its immigrant groups (Irish, Italian and African-American participation in crime, historically, can be thought of as disaffection created by the perceived lack of opportunity), it's very easy for violence to take hold. On top of all this, you had what amounts to the first world war of the 20th century in Syria, in which the disaffected could find purpose in their lives by fighting for a cause bigger than themselves.

In literally every other case, that disaffection would have been expressed through crime that would have been limited to specific regions. That this took place during a globalizing period for the world created the perfect storm. The causes of the problems started in WWI, where the pattern of population loss, and using colonial armies to supplement regular ones, began a pattern of decision-making, the consequences we still feel today. The thought was that if armies could be integrated on some level, then society could be too. I think America's efforts at integration show that integration takes a long time, and is an uneven process.

ETA: I simplified a lot of things when writing this, because I'm covering a long period of time. The migration patterns that resulted from the fin de siecle period to WWI are extremely complicated, and are the result of things that started with the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

I actually have a word document where I compile a bunch of data from different sources. If I want something quickly wiki is fine, but I usually look through my own stuff first.

Mostly because its tremendously interesting, and fits in with a lot of my other reading interests.

Do you get upset that most football players are black?

Dude didn’t even understand why England has so many black people

Idiots get upset when they can’t comprehend things or read basic history

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I'm surprised you're still bothering to interact with him as he is just throwing the whole kitchen sink at you, with no intention of being consistent.

Concern trolling about Jews while being a supporter of the National Front, shifting the goal posts from Muslims taking over France to blacks taking over the French team (particularly when 9 out of 14 black players aren't even Muslim), and failing to understand the difference between the open borders policies favored by leftist parties and the impact of colonization of the past century.

Yet you are the one being naive

ETA: According to the 2015 Pew study on religion in Europe, there isn't a single Western European nation with more than a 10 percent Muslim population. And in all of Europe, the only countries with more than 10 percent Muslim populations have next to nothing to do with immigration.

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I'm surprised you're still bothering to interact with him as he is just throwing the whole kitchen sink at you, with no intention of being consistent.

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I'm actually procrastinating. I have 3 interviews in the next 3 weeks, and I've quit my job, so I'm freaking out by discussing this stuff instead of preparing for the interviews.

No, I was working at a hospital. I'm applying for either DO/Ph.D's and MD/Ph.D's with the aim of becoming a medical scientist. Otherwise I read a bunch and argue a bunch on reddit and TD.

Yeah. No idea of what I really want to practice, but neurology and psychiatry interest me on a research level.