I wish we could stop the marginalization, but just free education including university, healthcare, etc, isn't enough apparently.
It's a similar problem as other marginalized groups - there must be some dynamics in play that keeps them marginalized.
Maybe it's as simple as their own pride combined with more or less subtle classism (more than racism) from the middle classes that alienates them.
I don't think this is fixable without rather far going measures, like tearing down bad suburbs and rebuild as low scale areas that encourages a high degree of social control that also the middle class would like to live in, forcibly designate schools to assure an even mix of social background, programs for encouraging studies, repress religious influences, some new ideas to punish young criminals without putting them in crime-scools like now, and probably really harsh punisment for repeat offenders.
Nothing of this is likely to happen except harsh punishment that won't do much on its own.
> It's a similar problem as other marginalized groups - there must be some dynamics in play that keeps them marginalized.
It's called having a scapegoat, it's especially obvious in Europe.
30 years ago the scapegoats in Western Europe used to be Eastern Europeans. Refugees from the Yugoslav wars had not been welcomed at all, EU expansion to the East (Poland) resulted in a lot of racist sentiments flaming up along the lines of "These Poles are gonna steal all our stuff and are criminal".
Now, 30 years later, not much has changed. Those that used to be marginalized have now found a new target they can marginalize themselves: Muslim refugees.
Suddenly we have a "European Identity" and that identity even includes Eastern Europeans who seem to have learned very little from their own marginalization and now proceed to do exactly the same things to another group.
It looks like humans always need somebody to put the blame on, stuff just can't go wrong, there always has to be some "evil mind" behind all the ugly stuff that happens.
It's a similar problem as other marginalized groups - there must be some dynamics in play that keeps them marginalized.
Maybe it's as simple as their own pride combined with more or less subtle classism (more than racism) from the middle classes that alienates them.
I don't think this is fixable without rather far going measures, like tearing down bad suburbs and rebuild as low scale areas that encourages a high degree of social control that also the middle class would like to live in, forcibly designate schools to assure an even mix of social background, programs for encouraging studies, repress religious influences, some new ideas to punish young criminals without putting them in crime-scools like now, and probably really harsh punisment for repeat offenders.
Nothing of this is likely to happen except harsh punishment that won't do much on its own.