[quote=Djshakes]Multiculturalism is not just a recognition that different groups have different cultures. We all knew that, long before multiculturalism became a cult that has spawned mindless rhapsodies about “diversity,” without a speck of evidence to substantiate its supposed benefits.
In Germany, as in other countries in Europe, welcoming millions of foreign workers who insist on remaining foreign has created problems so obvious that only the intelligentsia could fail to see them. It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious.
“We kidded ourselves for a while,” Chancellor Merkel said, but now it was clear that the attempt to build a society where people of very different languages and cultures could “live side-by-side” and “enjoy each other” has “failed, utterly failed.”
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Aside from the garden variety insular xenophobia the OP displays, there is the above quote.
The level of deep retardation displayed here is fucking staggering.
As a native of Germany, I find fundamental ignorance of this caliber a rare and delicious treat.
Immigrants generally do not assimilate in Germany because Germany has had virtually no naturalization process for most of its 140 year history.
Virtually all German citizens are ethnically German.
To this day, most German Turks (their most prominent immigrant population) do not have citizenship and a large percentage are stateless. Their families have been in the fatherland for 4 generations and they only speak Deutch but there is little chance of them ever being able to vote or have rights.
The bureau of Turkish immigrant affairs is actually a satellite of the Turkish embassy (because the German government does not show great involvement and therefore outsources these services).
I was born to American parents in Nuernberg (or Nuremberg or Neurnburg) in the historical epicenter of Teutonic tribalism.
This will do nothing for me if I decide I want to be a German citizen. There is simply no path to citizenship.
The only exceptions of which I am aware are as follows:
-following the collapse of the USSR, Germanics who had grown up as children of POWs or refugees were allowed entry and offered citizenship
-following the ascension of the Red-Green coalition in the late 90’s, some allowance was made for citizenship petitions for non-German natives who had resided in Germany their entire lives.
I expect this will change in the near future as Germany deals with a Turkish worker shortage. Lots of German-speaking Turks are moving to Turkey due to its expanding economy and new opportunities.
It has nothing to do with this retarded straw man of the “cult of multiculturalism”.
