Persuasive Speech On European Refugees

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Not a day goes by without extensive coverage of the EU refugee crisis in the media. Everybody should know by now. That there are thousands people leaving their home, their live, they leave everything behind to leave the country. Trek cross half of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, pay a lot of money, get abused by smugglers, and then risk their lives on unseaworthy boats? Why would they do that? Nobody cares. Until everybody was on social media and saw a shocking picture of a 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach in Turkey after a boat taking his family to Greece capsized. Then everybody began to pay attention to the Refugee Crisis. Should the European Union open its borders or not?

The funny thing is people only pay attention to the dead people who they can’t help …show more content…

But this current crisis happens to coincide with a moment of fear about national identity in both the US and Europe.Taking in large numbers of refugees requires accepting that those refugees might bring changes to a nation's identity or culture. That change is often beneficial not just for the refugees but for the host countries as well. Better food! New cultures! But immigration, especially on a larger scale, can also feel scary to people. When their communities change in small but important ways that can feel like neighborhoods and communities that were once designed for people like them are now interested in catering to someone else. And that is the real problem: This crisis has come at a time when many people in wealthy countries already felt tremendously threatened by immigration, and by the idea that their towns, communities, and cultures are changing in ways that feel uncomfortable or scary.

But that’s not true. As you can read there are many good things about refugees too. New food, new cultures, new people to work with. We should open our borders. If we can live a good life, why can’t other people live a good life without a

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