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RE: Dalai Lama: "Immigrants should rebuild their own country."

This is a very clear - almost deliberate - misinterpretation of a statement of the Dalai Lama, whose name, because it is very well known, is misused for propagandistic intentions and create a mood of anxiety. Moreover, torn out of context and in seemingly ignorance of the history of the Buddhist leader. The Dalai Lama himself is a refugee and lives in exile in India for many decades.

He knows very well what the refugees are going through - and in so far I can imagine that he emphasizes that it is important for the refugees to have hope to eventually go back to their countries.

In fact, many of the refugees aren't happy to be here in Germany, as they were forced to flee. I personally talk to families and ask them about their hopes and plans. Those, wo do not live here as their free choice, feel torn from their roots, their daily lives and work places, their families, who sometimes are spread around different countries. They would be relieved to finally get back to their normal life.

Then there are others, who, for instance, already got used to our western lifestyle and are as educated as we Europeans. Damaskus has 7 million citizens, formerly run businesses like Volvo and other manufacturers were closed off and engineers and the staff lost work and income. Those people, who feel here at home in almost the same sense as in their own town do not have this strong longing to go back, as they find here also what they had found there. The westernization of other nations is long in full swing and there is no threat towards a German culture when it comes to all the similarities we can already identify. In fact, every mega city is westernized already.

The source that you publish here I consider unhappy chosen. It is obviously not interested in deeper research and understanding of the events.

You have to imagine what it would be like if your own apartment and the street you were used to live in were destroyed by bombs and shot in the streets. How it must be when the order is out of order, the political situation is uncertain.

Moreover, this above video doesn't mention how many of the displaced and homeless and frightened family members and friends living in Syria have already taken up residence with them. People are crowding into 50 square meters, sometimes with twenty people. The neighbouring countries also take in a large part of the refugees. Please research the numbers if you are worried.

The Dalai Lama is portrayed as an ugly, even right-wing personality - this is a slander of his ethics. Those who know Buddhism will identify it much faster as opinion-making. But I assume that not many people study Buddhism and the history of the Dalai Lama and therefore take up the headlines and fast written texts superficially.

The first source "quora" is even spreading hatred. When you are interested in a culture, when you want to be tolerated in the world and not seem as an unfeeling uncaring person you can start to do deep research with what you are interested in. In all cases, you will find as many sources which will publish what is good and as many what is bad about the Tibetans or the Dalai Lama. When you are interested in the Dalai Lama you can study the doctrine of his religion and watch some videos where you hear him talking for himself. There is plenty of stuff to find.

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