Multiculturalismo no seu melhor

 

Multiculturalism: A bad idea

 

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"Germany is abolishing Itself"

Criticisms of parallel societies established by some immigrant communities increasingly came to the fore in the German public discourse during the 1990s, giving rise to the concept of the Leitkultur ("lead culture"). In October 2010, amid a nationwide controversy about Thilo Sarrazin's bestselling book Deutschland schafft sich ab ("Germany is abolishing Itself"), chancellor Angela Merkel of the conservative Christian Democratic Union judged attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany to have "failed, utterly failed". 

She added: "The concept that we are now living side by side and are happy about it does not work". She continued to say that immigrants should integrate and adopt Germany's culture and values. This has added to a growing debate within Germany on the levels of immigration, its effect on the country and the degree to which Muslim immigrants have integrated into German society. According to one poll around the time, one-third of Germans believed the country was "overrun by foreigners".

The principle of "Ius sanguinis" complicated citizenship for immigrants, as their dual citizenship was not recognized. This particularly affected the Turkish community in Germany as it led to political setbacks, such as losing in elections. Despite many efforts, there has been a growing disdain towards multiculturalism, accompanied by the rise of far-right parties in Germany. Thus, to reduce populist agendas, there is a growing importance for multicultural policies in addressing the needs of minority groups and immigrants in Germany to improve social cohesion and integration.

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GOING, GOING - by Philip Larkin

 

I thought it would last my time - 
The sense that, beyond the town, 
There would always be fields and farms, 
Where the village louts could climb 
Such trees as were not cut down; 
I knew there'd be false alarms 


In the papers about old streets 
And split level shopping, but some 
Have always been left so far; 
And when the old part retreats 
As the bleak high-risers come 
We can always escape in the car. 


Things are tougher than we are, just 
As earth will always respond 
However we mess it about; 
Chuck filth in the sea, if you must: 
The tides will be clean beyond. 
- But what do I feel now? Doubt? 


Or age, simply? The crowd 
Is young in the M1 cafe; 
Their kids aree screaming for more - 
More houses, more parking allowed, 
More caravan sites, more pay. 
On the Business Page, a score 


Of spectacled grins approve 
Some takeover bid that entails 
Five per cent profit (and ten 
Per cent more in the estuaries): move 
Your works to the unspoilt dales 
(Grey area grants)! And when 


You try to get near the sea 
In summer . . . It seems, just now, 
To be happening so very fast; 
Despite all the land left free 
For the first time I feel somehow 
That it isn't going to last, 


That before I snuff it, the whole 
Boiling will be bricked in 
Except for the tourist parts - 
First slum of Europe: a role 
It won't be hard to win, 
With a cast of crooks and tarts. 


And that will be England gone, 
The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, 
The guildhalls, the carved choirs. 
There'll be books; it will linger on 
In galleries; but all that remains 
For us will be concrete and tyres. 


Most things are never meant. 
This won't be, most likely; but greeds 
And garbage are too thick-strewn 
To be swept up now, or invent 
Excuses that make them all needs. 
I just think it will happen, soon. 

Charles de Gaulle and immigration

 

"Those who advocate integration have the brains of hummingbirds, no matter how learned they are. Try mixing oil and vinegar. Shake the bottle. After a while, they’ll separate again. Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. Do you think the French body can absorb ten million Muslims, who tomorrow will be twenty million and the day after tomorrow forty?"

Delícias do multiculturalismo

 

O colapso social da Europa

 

Not welcome, refugees from Gaza!!!