Germany wakes up to failed ideal of multiculturalism
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Germany wakes up to failed ideal of multiculturalism
Angela Merkel reflects popular opinion in her emphasis on the need for integration, writesDEREK SCALLY in Berlin
GERMANY’S IMMIGRATION debate is heating up, with a new plan announced to find out how many immigrants have failed to complete obligatory integration and language courses.
The news came as Chancellor Angela Merkel rowed into the debate at the weekend with an attack on the record of German multiculturalism.
Germany’s federal interior ministry wants to know how many people have failed to start and failed to complete obligatory integration courses, which are regulated by the country’s 16 federal states. “We want to find out what has happened to people who haven’t participated in these courses, obligatory since 2005, or who have not successfully completed the courses,” said a ministry spokesperson.
Preliminary figures quoted by Der Spiegel suggest that just 3.8 per cent of migrants failed to finish the course. “The federal states have tools at their disposal – to cut social welfare or end residency – and we want to see what the states have done in this respect.”
Dr Merkel said at the weekend that the multicultural ideal of “living side by side and being thrilled for each other” had “failed, failed utterly”.
The German leader knows she is walking a political tightrope, with her support in free fall.
Dr Merkel’s remarks were greeted with enthusiasm by many in her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), particularly right-wingers. They have accused her of neglecting them and have threatened to break away to form a new party to the right of the CDU.
The German leader knows that taking too extreme a position on integration risks repelling the moderate middle-class voters the CDU is chasing to keep ahead in the polls. Thus her weekend speech – beyond her widely reported “failed utterly” verdict on multiculturalism – was remarkably moderate.
The German leader agreed it was important to place greater integration demands on immigrants, she said, but it was wrong to close Germany to skilled workers it urgently needs.
“Four million Muslims live in this country and these people are staying,” she said.
Dr Merkel criticised “people who act as if Germany hasn’t changed since 1949”, an apparent rebuke to CDU right-wingers who refuse to acknowledge that Germany has been a country of migration for 40 years since the arrival of the first Turkish and Italian gastarbeiter. “Refusing to accept reality has never been a good thing,” she said.
Dr Merkel went further, backing President Christian Wulff who said Germany’s Muslim community had de facto made Islam a part of German society alongside its Judeo-Christian heritage.
“He said [Islam] is a part of Germany and it is,” said Dr Merkel, to decidedly less enthusiastic support from party delegates on Saturday.
This debate will be fuelled further when Mr Wulff begins a five-day visit to Turkey this morning. So far Germany’s integration debate has been moderate compared to that of its European neighbours. But there are extreme voices to be heard too.
Bavarian premier Horst Seehofer, head of the CSU, sister party of the CDU, said Germany had “no need” for migrants from “alien cultures” such as Turkey and Arab countries because of their “integration difficulties”.
He was applauded and condemned equally for calling on the authorities to “get tougher on those who refuse to integrate”.
Germany’s integration debate was sparked by a bestselling book’s claim that Muslim migrants, for cultural and religious reasons, were unable or unwilling to integrate into German society.
That claim has forced a debate on integration and struck a nerve among ordinary Germans: a poll for national television at the weekend found that just 8 per cent of Germans believe migrants living among them are well-integrated.
The other side of Germany’s integration debate is the labour market, and a claim at the weekend that Germany lacks 400,000 skilled workers due to immigration restrictions.
Labour minister Ursula von der Leyen has promised to ease the restrictions for migrants with in-demand qualifications.
Mr Seehofer contradicted her yesterday, saying that voters “don’t want Germany to become the world’s social welfare office”.
It’s clear that the emotional debate over migration will play a dominant role in regional elections next year, polls which could well decide Angela Merkel’s political future in Berlin. Weeks later looms the May deadline for Germany to open its labour market to Poland, the Czech Republic and other eastern EU neighbours.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/1018/1224281341024.html
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PAP is following the same failed path as Germany, flooding our country with massive aliens as a source of cheap labour.
The PAP must be stopped before it is too late.
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Not only Germany, but UK, Australia..... and a lot of developed EU countries are feeling the heat.....Singapore's feeling too... with mass immigration....
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Singapore land space is so small, population so small. Massive flooding of aliens will cause social instability, culture, identity will be weakened.
PAP must be voted out in next elections for causing this trouble.
PAP OUT.
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this is WONDERFUL news indeed............
the ZIONIST scheme of undermining national identity must be defeated.............
of course S'pore is controlled by the ZIONISTS too.........hence mass influx of immigrants...........
GERMANY must be free of these lowly foreigners.................hope the NEO-NAZISM will rise big time in Germany !
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Other countries can afford to let in more immigrants because of their huge size and resources.
Singapore is just a dot.
Pour too much water into a small cup and it will overflow.
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foreign influx pose new challenges but we should not be deterred by it so long our sovereignty is not lost....however, priorities of true-born native Singaporean must be upheld...
Again said, to uphold such notion, the system cannot afford to be lopsided in its policies e.g. women charter - strongly in favour of one gender at the expense of another to solve matrimonial issues... to have more babies? be fairer to other sections of the society as well...that Singapore is worth living its name
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we have to think and live globally...
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
Singapore land space is so small, population so small. Massive flooding of aliens will cause social instability, culture, identity will be weakened.
PAP must be voted out in next elections for causing this trouble.
PAP OUT.
PAP will not be voted out at next election, there are still alot of singaporeans too scared to vote for a change of government. However we may see more opposition members in parliament. -
Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
Singapore land space is so small, population so small. Massive flooding of aliens will cause social instability, culture, identity will be weakened.
PAP must be voted out in next elections for causing this trouble.
PAP OUT.
just curious.
with PAP out, the opp party will come in, and adopt a close door policy like what china did.. out with all foreigners?
so all those not born in singapore will be out? and U will take over clearing all rubbish?
or what's your brilliant idea? can share?
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Originally posted by iceFatboy:
just curious.
with PAP out, the opp party will come in, and adopt a close door policy like what china did.. out with all foreigners?
so all those not born in singapore will be out? and U will take over clearing all rubbish?
or what's your brilliant idea? can share?
CSJ refutes LKY on race, politics and immigration policy
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Straits Times actually reported this article yesterday!
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Originally posted by Junyang700:
Straits Times actually reported this article yesterday!
I don't read PAP state propaganda media.
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Very soon Britain will become the first European nation where the non whites outnumber the whites. And this will slowly but surely spread to the rest of Europe.
Blame no one but the caucasian, themselves, for their make belief of their superior cultures and therefore the crazy notion of their abilities to turn the brown, black, yellow men into their likeness.
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Originally posted by iceFatboy:
just curious.
with PAP out, the opp party will come in, and adopt a close door policy like what china did.. out with all foreigners?
so all those not born in singapore will be out? and U will take over clearing all rubbish?
or what's your brilliant idea? can share?
hey fatso. while a lot of foreign pigs swiping the floor are cursing at when they can earn enough to fuck back to their country, there are lots of sgreans ouut there who are willing to sweep the floor. ask me. hey i don;t mind really. its a job. with my education i can sweep and get promoted to a manager or supervisor in no time. -
You read the superficial of the news....but the underlining is an excuse of appeal to domestics politics pressured.
Is it a Failure or is it to gain Votes.
U have to be smarter than the headlines news.
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As far as I look at the headline it appear to be similar to LHL give speech to Singaporean saying enough of Foreign Talent.....we only need another 80 000 more.....
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Originally posted by 4sg:
Very soon Britain will become the first European nation where the non whites outnumber the whites. And this will slowly but surely spread to the rest of Europe.
Blame no one but the caucasian, themselves, for their make belief of their superior cultures and therefore the crazy notion of their abilities to turn the brown, black, yellow men into their likeness.
The brits also put one of their dogs to rule over us, help to anglicise our society, turn people to anglo dogs.
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
The brits also put one of their dogs to rule over us, help to anglicise our society, turn people to anglo dogs.
So you are the anglo dog! If not, why are you typing in English?
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
I don't read PAP state propaganda media.
You cannot accept the truth! -
CrossTalk on multiculturalism: Uni-falure?
On this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk, he ask his guests whether multiculturalism has failed or is failing…..and what the alternatives are...
http://rt.com/About_Us/Programmes/CrossTalk/2010-10-20/604135.html
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Well Singapore isn't exactly like Germany or London. When i walk out in the street I still see Singaporeans about, not hordes of tea-towel wearing Middle Easterners. You can tell that Singaporeans are still the majority and you don't have gettoes.
We dont have fanatics here or rude people, and I think our immigration laws and PR laws are getting tighter, and if you are an immigrant and u screw up, you're out and they'll replace you easily. So i think we have it under control FOR NOW.... So i think the current fear is not warranted.
Although I will say this, yesterday I went to Bugis to get some research and i stopped at the MAccers to get sausage mcmuffin, a whole bunch of school girls came in (in some uniform... you know like what uniforms look like in local school) and they all were from China... like 10 of them ha ha. So that was the only time i felt the immigration thing that you guys are talking about.
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Originally posted by LordoftheLamers:
Well Singapore isn't exactly like Germany or London. When i walk out in the street I still see Singaporeans about, not hordes of tea-towel wearing Middle Easterners.
Singapore's case is hordes of PRCs and indians and god knows what else.
Germany's ratio of aliens to locals, I am not sure, but Singapore is close to 60% local, 40% aliens.
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Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:
Singapore land space is so small, population so small. Massive flooding of aliens will cause social instability, culture, identity will be weakened.
PAP must be voted out in next elections for causing this trouble.
PAP OUT.
We dun mind PAP get voted out, the problem is WHO WILL TAKE OVER< if it is one of our bunche of oppositions of today, you better forget it, get a more credible one please, if not better stick with PAP, no fish, shrimp also good