Merkel says German multicultural society has failed
From Eye on the World:
(BBC) 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".
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.
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."
17 comments:
Pastorius,
I hope most other people Europe start to realize that soon, if they haven't already.
oooohh noooes who would have thought it wasnt possible to have two cultures exist in one space!
especially when beleives the other must be dominated and destroyed and replaced by itself by any means nescessary.
its like thinking you can invite in the borg as your nieghbor and everything will be swell
To some extent it depends on the culture.
Wherever the Chinese have settled in large numbers you get a Chinatown, which becomes a tourist attraction. Wherever Muslims have settled in large numbers you get a ghetto, which becomes a no-go area.... http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/02/community-cohesion-and-muslims.html
Islam is not so much a culture as a destroyer of cultures: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/multiculturalism-does-islam-bring.html
It's europe.
How many cultures have successfully assimilated and left anything of themselves there?
The USA exists for a reason.
We have said that in the end europe would end up settling things in the familiar way many times around here.
It is the USA that will be the acid test, not for multiculturalism... we already HAVE a total goop melange culture and thank god for it, PROVIDED the group to be assimilated accepts the idea which is america. The USA will be the acid test for another group, for there is no way the ascendant form of Islam can tolerate the idea which is the USA either from immigrants or those who simply want to kill it.
I love the "multikulti" concept ! - where people would "live side-by-side" happily !
"multikulti" lives happily everywhere! The joke about the " Optimist Vs. Pessimist " we all know...
Did you hear the last one about the "Fatalist" ?... In Europe it ain't a joke !...
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Epaminondas,
I agree,
And Rumcrook, here's something else to think about. Many Historians have refereed to the Roman Empire as a multicultural society. In many respects, for most of its history, it was really deserve, and although it was also a dictatorship for most of its later history, it did last a long time. In fact Rome was pretty unique at the time, in that they'd let conquered people become citizens. That's kind of unique, even now.
damien, guys, I beleive your missing a larger thread that runs through this.
allthough we (USA) and rome had something in common, a willingness to incorporate everyone from many cultures and make them part of our system, tolerating and enjoying many unique things what both have expected is an allegiance to the system as set up in our wider culture.
that is very important, we are fine with italians celebrating thier heritage and making great food, mexicans ditto, chinese ditto,
what we are not fine with is for new arrivals to dismiss our culture,
not only cling to thiers but to insist that thiers is superior and must dominate ours. and we must comform to them.
rome never allowed that kind of bullshit. and when they finally did it speled thier doom.
chinese come they excell they increase enterprise, and want the american life et al for thier children.
same for latin immigrants, ect.
what I see from many muslims is a disdain for us and our nation and ethos, as shown by the honor killings of some young daughters whos only crime was wearing blue jeans. and they had to die.
or cabbies refusing to pick up blind people at the airport with dogs!
or british muslim police refusing to uphold the law if it is applied to "joooos"
I beleive my point is valid no to cultures can inhabit the same space. the immigrant culture has to find a way to integrate and be apart of the larger western culture which it resides within and with that western culture being dominate or it will try to take over de legitimize and destroy the host culture.
for me this has allways been about culture not race. we have allowed many races and ethnicities in and they fitted thier home cultures to our world.
what I am against is any culture that cannot peacefully co-exist and has a record of poor performance with integration being allowed to immigrate to our country.
and right now the elephant in the room that fits that description is pretty apparent to everyone here.
Rumcrook,
I understand and I completely agree with you.
I'm getting tired of the only leaders having large external gonads, being women. When is a male politician going to man-up and say what needs to be said.
Glad Merkel did this. How long before the riots/killings start?
SamenoKami,
Are you forgetting about Geert Wilders, as well as some others?
Forgot about Geert. I was thinking US politicians. Sue Myrick comes to mind for US politicians, but it still seems no one wants to call islam what it is.
SamenoKami,
There are a few male American politicians who are critical of Islam, but I don't think that any of them are well known, unfortunately.
Here's one, unfortunately I don't know if he got elected or not.
Vijay Kumar
However, you may like him.
You guys rule! You are thinking culturally about how different groups assimilate in different ways and have different impacts on our majority culture. What would we name such a science of cultural melding?
And, multiculturalism has failed. Too bad there isn't an alternative. If there was an alternative, what would we cal it? Hmnn.
Let me know if you think of anything!!!
www.culturism.us
so why was merkel telling erdoclown that she means integration not assimilation when comes to turks?
something stinks.
Epaminondas said...
It's europe.
of course, it's europe. it's never islam.
"assimilation is a crime against humanity. Turkish citizens should achieve integration," - erdoclown
"Assimilation is not on our agenda, this is about integration," Merkel added, stressing that learning the German language was integral for the employment opportunities of young Turks living in
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6097261,00.html
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