Extinction narratives reduce host populations to folkloric relics like reservation Indians

Evidence

In just two or three generations, there will be no Europeans, except, perhaps, in isolated enclaves (one respondent, a city council member in Rotterdam, anticipated that they would be like “amusement parks or Indian reservations”). Muslims will be the demographically and politically dominant group in a Europe that by the year 2060 will be an extension of the Arab Near East and Maghreb. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 124

Categorization

• CANDY: A Rotterdam council member imagining Europeans as living in ‘amusement parks or Indian reservations’ is a memorably quotable line.
• SEED: Essay angle: how majority-group decline fantasies borrow the settler-colonial imagery of the groups they fear.