multicultural society has failed

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Europe seeing the light

BBC NEWS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11559451

16 October 2010 Last updated at 16:51 ET
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Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
In a speech in Potsdam, she said the so-called "multikulti" concept - where people would "live side-by-side" happily - did not work.
Mrs Merkel's comments come amid recent outpourings of strong anti-immigrant feeling from mainstream politicians.
A recent survey showed that more than 30% of Germans believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners".
Continue reading the main story The study - by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think-tank - also showed that roughly the same number thought that some 16 million of Germany's immigrants or people with foreign origins had come to the country for the social benefits.
Foreign workers
Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at "the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country... We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone', but this isn't reality.
"And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other... has failed, utterly failed."
In her speech, the chancellor specifically referred to recent comments by German President Christian Wulff who said that Islam was "part of Germany" like Christianity and Judaism.

Mrs Merkel says Islam is part of Germany but more must be done on integration
While acknowledging that this was the case, Mrs Merkel stressed that immigrants living in Germany needed to do more to integrate, including learning to speak German.
"Anyone who does not immediately speak German", she said, "is not welcome".
By speaking now, Mrs Merkel has now joined the increasingly hot debate on multiculturalism, coming down on the side of those who are uneasy about immigration, says the BBC's correspondent in Berlin, Stephen Evans.
Her comments come a week after she held talks with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which the two leaders pledged to do more to improve the often poor integration record of Germany's estimated 2.5 million-strong Turkish community.
Earlier this week, Horst Seehofer, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party, CSU, said about integration that it was "obvious that immigrants from different cultures like Turkey and Arab countries, all in all, find it harder".
"'Multikulti' is dead," Mr Seehofer said.
In August, Thilo Sarrazin, a senior official at Germany's central bank, said that "no immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime". Mr Sarrazin has since resigned.
Such recent strong anti-immigrant feelings from mainstream politicians come amid an anger in Germany about high unemployment, even if the economy is growing faster than those of its rivals, our correspondent says.
He adds that there also seems to be a new strident tone in the country, perhaps leading to less reticence about no-go-areas of the past.

 

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A recent survey showed that more than 30% of Germans believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners".

Wow... Germany has a higher per capita rate of xenophobic tea-baggers than the U.S. does. Go figure... :142smilie

 

[THE KOD]

we have family in germany

the ones they hate the most are the turks

they have slums there just for them

they are unclean and dont care to work.

DTBlackgumby would love them sucking the germany tits

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Thomas Sowell

The Multicultural Cult

By Thomas Sowell

Somebody eventually had to say it -- and German chancellor Angela Merkel deserves credit for being the one who had the courage to say it out loud. Multiculturalism has "utterly failed."
Multiculturalism is not just a recognition that different groups have different cultures. We all knew that, long before multiculturalism became a cult that has spawned mindless rhapsodies about "diversity," without a speck of evidence to substantiate its supposed benefits.

Germany, as in other countries in Europe, welcoming millions of foreign workers who insist on remaining foreign has created problems so obvious that only the intelligentsia could fail to see them. It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious.
"We kidded ourselves for a while," Chancellor Merkel said, but now it was clear that the attempt to build a society where people of very different languages and cultures could "live side-by-side" and "enjoy each other" has "failed, utterly failed."

This is not a lesson for Germany alone. In countries around the world, and over the centuries, peoples with jarring differences in language, cultures and values have been a major problem and, too often, sources of major disasters for the societies in which they co-exist.
Even the tragedies and atrocities associated with racial differences in racist countries have been exceeded by the tragedies and atrocities among people with clashing cultures who are physically indistinguishable from one another, as in the Balkans or Rwanda.
Among the ways that people with different cultures have managed to minimize frictions have been (1) mutual cultural accommodations, even while not amalgamating completely, and (2) living separately in their own enclaves. Both of these approaches are anathema to the multicultural cultists.
Expecting any group to adapt their lifestyles to the cultural values of the larger society around them is "cultural imperialism" according to the multicultural cult. And living in separate neighborhoods is considered to be so terrible that there are government-financed programs to take people from high-crime slums and put them in subsidized housing in middle-class neighborhoods.
Multiculturalists condemn people's objections to transplanting hoodlums, criminals and dysfunctional families into the midst of people who may have sacrificed for years to be able to escape from living among hoodlums, criminals and dysfunctional families.
The actual direct experience of the people who complain about the consequences of these social experiments is often dismissed as mere biased "perceptions" or "stereotypes," if not outright "racism." But some of the strongest complaints have come from middle-class blacks who have fled ghetto life, only to have the government transplant ghetto life back into their midst.
The absorption of millions of immigrants from Europe into American society may be cited as an example of the success of multiculturalism. But, in fact, they were absorbed in ways that were the direct opposite of what the multicultural cult is recommending today.
Before these immigrants were culturally assimilated to the norms of American society, they were by no means scattered at random among the population at large. On New York's lower east side, Hungarian Jews lived clustered together in different neighborhoods from Romanian Jews or Polish Jews -- and German Jews lived away from the lower east side.
When someone suggested relieving the overcrowding in the lower east side schools by transferring some of the children to a school in an Irish neighborhood that had space, both the Irish and the Jews objected.
None of this was peculiar to America. When immigrants from southern Italy</SPAN> to Australia</SPAN> moved into neighborhoods where people from northern Italy lived, the northern Italians moved out. Such scenarios could be found in countries around the world.
It was in later generations, after the children and grandchildren of the immigrants to America were speaking English and living lives more like the lives of other Americans, that they spread out to live and work where other Americans lived and worked. This wasn't multiculturalism. It was common sense.
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[WhatsHisNuts]

:facepalm:

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

You might want to read the one Merkel also Garry --It is also in the "most read section"
at Real Clear Politics --but expect the one by Bob Herbert would be more to your liking

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=noad



Most Read
Last 24 Hours
That Sinking Feeling
- Bob Herbert, New York Times
Angela Merkel Says the Unsayable
- Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
The Wave and the Reality
- Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
The Multicultural Cult
- Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics

 

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:facepalm:

 

[rusty]

It's just a matter of time if the West don't act now.
Read Buddy's post (with video)if you haven't already.

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Should we should start rounding up the minorities and place them in work camps.:0corn





























:facepalm:

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

I love the fact that doggie bumped this thread to the top. No shame at all.

:facepalm:

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Appears Muffins liberal mecca France--having a few probs with Trolls too :mj07:

Fortunately ours here confine themselves to :talk:

 

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Should we should start rounding up the minorities and place them in work camps.:0corn

I think Dogs would prefer "they" all go back where they came from. Apparently he has pre-Columbian roots here.

 

[Duff Miver]

Appears Muffins liberal mecca France--having a few probs with Trolls too :mj07:

Fortunately ours here confine themselves to :talk:

Never been to coal mining country, have you doggie?

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

<DT>Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. <DD class=author>Albert Einstein, (attributed)
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) </DD>
Appears UK is now making it unanimous along with France and Germany on cutting back on that gov tit--while Gumby/liberals trying to take us in other direction.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ukunveils-dramatic-austerity-measures-2010-10

The UK?s Conservative-led coalition has announced the most drastic budget cuts in living memory, outstripping measures taken by other advanced economies which are also under pressure to sharply reduce public spending.

Declaring that ?today is the day where Britain steps back from the brink?, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, revealed dramatic reductions to core departments over the next four years, a ?7bn fall in welfare support and 490,000 public-sector job cuts by 2014-15.
?Tackling the budget deficit is unavoidable,? Mr Osborne told parliament. ?To back down now and abandon our plans would be the road to economic ruin.?





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Meanwhile Tea-Baggers like Dogs are rallying behind candidates like O'Donnell, who
don't even possess a basic knowledge of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights...

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