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I would argue that growing up in a comfortable Western lifestyle is contributing to this infantilism and will be one of the contributors of the decline of the western world.

If you are a Syrian refugee, the last thing you are caring about is the new Mario Nintendo game and Starbucks frappucino.

Time to get serious and have children (me talking to myself)

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Once the Syrian refugees arrive somewhere safe and settle, they quite like the creature comforts too. It's not an innate property of different groups, it's a Maslow situation.

Of course he does. Parent comment means the socioeconomic conditions of the refugee place of origin.

There is a huge difference between fighting tooth and nail for creature comforts and just being born into it.

I suppose you can move to Syria then. Thankfully the mature mindset of the socioeconomic realities have led to prosperity, and not total collapse, like the childish west.

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