Yes, there has been cases of racism in the other cases. Yet, this has been totally blown out of proportion. One tries to present it as if Syrians were completely ignored. That is ridiculous claim and frankly offensive to the countless families and volunteers in the West who opened their arms to Syrian refugees, Iraqis before that or Vietnamese before that. Over a million Syrians were welcomed and that is not nothing. Sure more got accepted by immediate neighbours, but none of those provide the kind of extensive support and aid they get in Europe, US and Canada.

Europe and the North America is still the main recipients of refugees from areas outside of their immediate neighbour regions. I don't see Japan, China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore or many other rich countries take in a lot of refugees other than possible those of neighbouring countries.

I am totally fine attacking the racist who wanted to deny Syrians refuge here in the West. But I reject the idea that the West is universally racist. Here in Norway there was an anti-immigrant party pushing against Syrian refugees and saying nasty things. However, they represented 15% of voters.

People talk as if the majority rejected Syrians. No they didn't. A small minority made a stink about Syrian refugees.

Other than that I think we are entitled to be more concerned with our immediate neighbours than people from distant lands. Just like you care more about your brother and sister than some random person living one town over. As a European I think I am entitled to be upset about a brutal war in Europe.

I don't think Europeans are any different in that regard than anybody else, but these is this attempt to frame us as uniquely racist.