Talk:Heusden-Zolder

Immigration in Heusden-Zolder
The second paragraph argues that H-Z is very multicultural, because it has almost 2.000 immigrants. Apart from the logical leap (does a high number of immigrants automatically make a city multicultural?), the statistics don't bear out. 2.000 immigrants out of almost 31.000 translates to an immigrant ratio of almost 6.5%. This is not exceptional, and is in fact quite a bit below the Belgian average of 9.11% (see http://www.werk.belgie.be/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=28772, p.11). Barring any replies in the next week or so, I'm editing this paragraph to remove references to multiculturalism, unless anyone can point to other arguments to keep it. I'll also do some minor editing to improve the rest of the text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Undyne (talk • contribs) 08:41, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * In fact H-Z is very multicultural, the number of foreigners (they're not always immigrants) is almost 2000, but the number of inhabitants of foreign descent (1st, 2nd, 3rd generation) is much higher. Check the graph on this webpage, in 1991 there were over 5500 foreigners. They did not move out of Heusden-Zolder but acquired the Belgian nationality. I know of the Turkish man they often change nationality to evade the military service. In general there is a large and vivid community of mainly Italians and Turks with own shops, cultural centra, religious services, ... but apart from that there are also a lot of Spaniards, Marrocans, Greeks, Poles, ... all of them came in the 50's & 60's to work in the coal mines. --Eigenwijze mustang (talk) 11:40, 18 October 2010 (UTC)