Thursday, October 21, 2010
"Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel: Multiculturalism a Failure"
Sound familiar?
Obviously, immigration issues are not isolated to the United States...
Obviously, immigration issues are not isolated to the United States...
Rudi Stettner recently reported on this at IndyPosted.com:
"Merkel focused in her speech on the need of immigrants to learn German and to integrate into German society. A greater frequency of crime and welfare dependency among immigrants in Germany has fueled frustration and resentment among Germans. By tapping into widely voiced frustration, Merkel undoubtedly hoped to take the hot button issue of immigration away from Germany’s extreme right and to deal with it in a firm and lawful manner.
Merkel’s remarks mirror the experience of other countries in Western Europe such as France, where immigrants are often likely to be involved in crime, lack fluency in the national language and suffer from higher rates of unemployment.This in turn fuels rightist extremism among native Europeans and Islamic extremism among immigrants, many of whom come from Muslim nations."
