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| Merkel: German multiculturalism failed |
| 2010-10-18 |
| [Iran Press TV] German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country has totally failed to create a society where various cultural backgrounds can live peacefully. The concept that "we are now living side by side and are happy about it," does not work, Merkel told a Christian Democrats meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin on Saturday. "This approach has failed, totally," AFP quoted her as saying. The German official warned against growing "immigration that weighs down on our social system." She further stressed that Germany needs specialists from other countries to continue its economic development. A recent study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank shows that more than one third of Germans believe "foreigners should be sent home when jobs are scarce." The German chamber of commerce, however, has recently announced that the country is in urgent need of 400,000 engineers and qualified workers. In a speech marking 20 years of German unity on Saturday, German President Christian Wulff said Mohammedans had become "a part of Germany." Merkel recalled the comments, urging immigrants already living in Germany to do more to integrate into society. During a meeting in Berlin on October 9, Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to do more to improve the often poor integration record of Germany's 2.5mn-strong Turkish minority. Germany plans to use celebrations in October 2011 for the 50th anniversary of a key immigration agreement on "Gastarbeiter" (guest workers) between Germany and Turkey to "take stock," Merkel said after talks with Erdogan. "We propose that everywhere in cities and towns where there are people of Turkish origin, we use this event as a way of taking stock and seeing where we are and what has to be done," she told news hounds. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 WAFF > TURKEY MOVES CLOSER TO THE WEST versus * HURRIYET NEWS [Turkey] > UNDER THE BANNER OF THE AKP, TURKEY IS NEITHER A EUROPEAN POWER NOR A REGIONAL POWER. IIUC, ARTIC = AKP believes that its current, populist, anti-Europe/Western angry rhetoric. methods will result in Turkey becoming a member of the EU + ECM as long desired??? * WAFF > GREECE: 329% INCREASE IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ENTERING GREECE FROM THE BORDER [Evros]. Percentage rates from 2009 into 2010. ARTIC > Majority or 62% are AFGHANS entering illegally via AFGHANISTAN + IRAN, wid the Remainder coming from SOMALIA, NIGERIA, former FRENCH NORTH AFRICA [Morocco, Algiers], PAKISTAN + PALESTINE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-18 20:37 |
| #8 Sorry, rj. I seem to have misplaced your w. :-( |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-18 19:44 |
| #7 Spain to create a migrant worker program to bring workers up from Latin America Already happened, rjscharz. When the economy went bad, they started paying them to go back home. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-18 19:42 |
| #6 During a rally in Cologne in 2008 Erdogan condemned assimilation as a crime against humanity, so there's not much enthusiasm for the concept among Turks in Germany, to put it mildly. The picture below is one of the official advertising posters for that rally. The German flag with Moon & Star decoration is a nice touch.  "Turkey's Leader is in Germany" If I didn't know better I'd be tempted to think that Erdogan might view Cyprus as a template for future Turkish-European relations. /sarc |
| Posted by: Omaing White7048 2010-10-18 18:44 |
| #5 Germany allowed Turkish workers in after WW2 and there is not much they can do about it now except hope they assimilate and don't radicalize. Having said that assimilation would be easier if they stopped the flow of refugees and Muslim workers. What Europe needs is someone in Spain to create a migrant worker program to bring workers up from Latin America so that the Middle East can be bipassed. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-10-18 17:34 |
| #4 Merkel is fighting for her political survival and this is an IMHO inept attempt at triangulation. She also agreed with Note the lack of qualifiers like 'moderate' or 'enlightened' or 'western.' They're talking about mainstream OIC Islam, an ideology that is openly hostile to Western Civilization. |
| Posted by: Omaing White7048 2010-10-18 17:27 |
| #3 " FTFY. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-18 12:39 |
| #2 Chancellor Merkel states the obvious. Ask anyone within 250k's of Berchtesgaden (in any direction) what they think of multiculturalism. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-10-18 12:28 |
| #1 Hello Moonbeam Oops!, I mean bergers. It is failing here also. Just look at where people live. My brother is a school teacher and at his school they have two PTA's. One white and one black. O has only made things worse. When you travel and venture into areas out of the main flow of traffic you will see you don't belong. In the old days it was rude not to wave. Now if they wave it will be a fist or worse. |
| Posted by: Dale 2010-10-18 11:58 |