What Albania can teach us about trust
Albanian here.  What the article omits, or misses is that most refugees during the Kosovo war were Albanians as well.  Same language, same culture.<p>We had a large house and my parents hosted 7 people (two families), during that time.  One of the families were actually long&#x2F;distant cousins.<p>Now, this is not the same as hosting Syrians refugees.  I think very few Albanian families are willing to host them in their own homes.  Albania itself is a very tolerant country (religious wise, as most people are not religious themselves or are atheists), and we think of having a large amount of people coming from arab countries as a regress in the freedom and quality of life.  They are a lot more conservative, and coming from a completely different culture which will not be compatible with a tolerant one like Albania&#x27;s.<p>I think few Albanians would want to put up with that.  Very limited numbers yes, massive 100k+ numbers, no way.