bbloff: I am NOT a refugee in dire need of survival. If I were, the first thing in my mind would be safety and a dire hope that the place I landed wasn't a concentration camp; or an endless queue waiting for minute interrogation and microscopic examination.
Since I am in a safe country, then, I suggest I could stretch my hand out and try and pull some distressed people out of the ugly swamp that Fate has dropped them.
The language and the culture bits would come soon afterwards.
What you and redgreek are advocating is a dreadful examination of every part of the human being, not so as to accept but so as to reject. It is a useless examination which seeks to let people die in their misery because they don't look like you or go to the same church as you. Reproachful view of our country and its beloved motto, "fair go for all."
You wish to prejudge. To select OUT, rather than to help. That is what the word "prejudice" means: pre judge. Who are you to judge? Who are you to say whom I want to be my neighbour?
The rest of your stuff about integration is irrelevant.
