Skeptic Project

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel: "lmmigrants should learn to speak German"

Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

She said the so-called "multikulti" concept - where people would "live side-by-side" happily - did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate - including learning German.

The comments come amid rising anti-immigration feeling in Germany.

A recent survey suggested more than 30% of people believed the country was "overrun by foreigners".

The study - by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think-tank - also showed that roughly the same number thought that some 16 million of Germany's immigrants or people with foreign origins had come to the country for its social benefits.
Foreign workers

Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at "the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country."

She added: "We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime 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."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11559451<br /> -----

GOLDURN IMMIGRANTS

Europeans talk shit on Americans a lot, but more often than not, some of the most racist and prejudice shit goes on there. Like banning headscarfs in France, banning minarets in Switzerland, etc. People like Geert Wilders, etc.

I mean America does a lot of racist and prejudice things also, but seriously, the pot is calling the kettle black when it comes to Europeans talking down on Americans for being prejudice or racist.

O.o What racist and prejudiced laws do we have here in America?

Or rather, a better question, who's MORE racist and discriminate, the USA, or Europe?

> This can lead to mostly white kids in the smart class and mostly
> black / Hispanic in the other

In the UK its more the other way around now.

> "lmmigrants should learn to speak German"

It would help, or else, in time it will be like it is in parts of the UK, that native speaking people cannot get jobs unless they speak various other non-native languages..

Not to mention you will have trouble on the telephone, or ordering something in a shop when the person behind the counter fails to speak the national language.

> A recent survey suggested more than 30% of people believed the country was
> "overrun by foreigners".

Part of the problem is the level of immigrantion, if its low, people don't really notice much or complain.

Also part of the problem is the corruption levels among various groups only helping their own and alientating other groups. (Leading to, not just native folk objecting to them, but also other groups of immigrants who are acting more fair and reasonable.)

Its what one might think of as a classic war footing situation, with many sides fighting, and a few trying to cooperate and getting taken advantage of.