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Multiculturalism has "Utterly Failed"

Mike

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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.

In 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 to Australia 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.

Thomas Sowell
 

Grandad

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It is refreshing to hear a politician state the obvious instead of dancing around the subject. We have a multicultural trainwreck here in Canada thanks to Pierre Elliot NOT DEAD ENOUGH Trudeau. I doubt if anyone of any import has the stones to say it!
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Grandad said:
It is refreshing to hear a politician state the obvious instead of dancing around the subject. We have a multicultural trainwreck here in Canada thanks to Pierre Elliot NOT DEAD ENOUGH Trudeau. I doubt if anyone of any import has the stones to say it!


:agree: :agree: :clap: :clap:
 

per

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Just in case some didn't understand, it deserves to be repeated in French. I wish I had said that.

Il rafraîchit pour entendre un politicien déclare l'évidente au lieu de danse autour du sujet. Nous avons un trainwreck multiculturel ici au Canada grâce à Pierre Elliot Trudeau PAS ASSEZ MORT. Je doute si n'importe qui de n'importe quelle importation a les pierres pour le dire !

:agree:
 

per

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We're not that good at French out west here and we shouldn't need to be. That is the point about multiculturalism. The only language used in my house is English and there is a decidedly western culture here that I respect. The use of other languages have unfortunately become necessary in order to carry on business with all the multicultural nonsense creeping in. Having said that, there could be up to 4 conversational languages spoke at one of our family gatherings. It is fairly obvious that not all my relatives followed my recommendations. It does however keep your language and cultural skills in tune for when you need them. And I can honestly say my culturally non western family in an acute sense are very nice folks and we get along fine. On a macro level though the melting pot is starting to melt the pot.
 

Grandad

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I believe a lot of people voted for the new mayor on account of his faith much like a lot of folks voted for Obama on account of his color.
 

jingo2

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hypocritexposer said:
Talk about multicultural. first Muslim mayor of a major city, and it is in Calgary no less.

He seems like a very inrtelligent individual.


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hypocritexposer

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jingo2 said:
hypocritexposer said:
Talk about multicultural. first Muslim mayor of a major city, and it is in Calgary no less.

He seems like a very inrtelligent individual.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yep, mis typing is happening a little more lately. New Laptop and the keys seem to be fairly sensitive.

We call it "fat thumbs".

What do you call it in Georgia?
 

hopalong

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kolo never paid any attention to spelling, she is using it to try and take away from the fact she really is jingos lol lol lol
EH kolo??????????????
 

andybob

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Each country evolves a culture over a long period of time, this is an ongoing process as changes occur, often as new groups of people arrive, assimilate into the eixsting culture, but add something such as cusine or art. The important fact here, is that the new arrivals first assimilate not maintain their own ghetto mentality.
 
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Anonymous

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andybob said:
Each country evolves a culture over a long period of time, this is an ongoing process as changes occur, often as new groups of people arrive, assimilate into the eixsting culture, but add something such as cusine or art. The important fact here, is that the new arrivals first assimilate not maintain their own ghetto mentality.

AMEN-- and when folks from 3rd world cultures are continually brought in with the primary goal to maintain slave or semislave "cheap" labor for the corporates- rather than assimilate into the culture- it will never occur....
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
andybob said:
Each country evolves a culture over a long period of time, this is an ongoing process as changes occur, often as new groups of people arrive, assimilate into the eixsting culture, but add something such as cusine or art. The important fact here, is that the new arrivals first assimilate not maintain their own ghetto mentality.

AMEN-- and when folks from 3rd world cultures are continually brought in with the primary goal to maintain slave or semislave "cheap" labor for the corporates- rather than assimilate into the culture- it will never occur....
You mean like the thousands and thousands of Chinese who built the railroads in the 1800's? :roll:

If you think about it. The only people who have ever really truly "assimilated" in the U.S. society are white Europeans. The rest are mainly segregated by choice today................ Think Chinatown or Harlem.
 

hopalong

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Oldtimer said:
andybob said:
Each country evolves a culture over a long period of time, this is an ongoing process as changes occur, often as new groups of people arrive, assimilate into the eixsting culture, but add something such as cusine or art. The important fact here, is that the new arrivals first assimilate not maintain their own ghetto mentality.

AMEN-- and when folks from 3rd world cultures are continually brought in with the primary goal to maintain slave or semislave "cheap" labor for the corporates- rather than assimilate into the culture- it will never occur....

So you are saying that only reason 3rd party are being brought into the USA
is to provide slave labor?
Do you have facts to back that up or are you just being OLDTIMER and using you mouth to try and bolster your brain???

Show us facts oldtimer, not your hate to anyone that has more than you!!!
Show us real facts not your mis information,
Get off your soap box and back up what you say! REAL FACTS!!!!!! Baring that you are nothing but a phony! wanna be!
 
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