German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party this weekend that the “multikulti” concept – where people of different backgrounds would live together happily – does not work in Germany.
At “the beginning of the 1960s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country,” said Ms. Merkel at the event in Potsdam, near Berlin. “We kidded ourselves a while. We said: ‘They won’t stay, [after some time] 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.”
The crowd gathered in Potsdam greeted the above remark, delivered from the podium with fervor by Ms. Merkel, with a standing ovation. And her comments come just days after a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank (which is affiliated with the center-left Social Democratic Party) found that more than 30 percent of people believed Germany was “overrun by foreigners” who had come to Germany chiefly for its social benefits.
The study also found that 13 percent of Germans would welcome a “Führer” – a German word for leader that is explicitly associated with Adolf Hitler – to run the country “with a firm hand.”
Source:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/1017/Germany-s-Angela-Merkel-Multiculturalism-has-utterly-failed
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Germany’s Angela Merkel: Multiculturalism Has ‘utterly Failed’…?
Posted on October 18, 2010.
I don’t have much time- but I’ll try to answer.
I read that- and wondered- in the US every group of immigrants that has come were treated with disdain and sometimes violence and hatred. The reason they came was for a better economic condition. Most have assimilated into the culture and we have a multiculturalism- However we have a new world – the US is now developed and closed and seems more resistant to immigrants. Germany is a much more closed society – they aren’t composed of different groups. It may take decades for a multiculturalism to take hold.
When people in europe say “multi-culturalism” they mean “islamification”
Americans have a much less understanding of that.