Gemüsepizza;198982982 said:
Because a very small percentage of immigrants comes into conflict with the law (which isn't that suprising considering many of those people are very poor) "multiculturism has failed" and we should not let any more migrants in. This is on the same level like the crap you hear from people like Wilders, Breivik and Le Pen. Funnily enough reality is nothing like this. You can post articles after articles about how those immigrants commit crimes and cause trouble, but that does not change the fact that 99% of migrants do not cause any trouble at all, und live peacefully among us.
The "Multiculturalism experiment has failed" isn't something that Wilders, Breivik or Le Pen has said. It's Merkel who said that.
And a large number of migrants come into conflict with law, many many times larger than those among native population. This group also is less educated, poorer, more prone to extremism and unemployment. And of course, this isn't all their own fault. THe blame is shared between people and goverment, but this doesn't change the reality and how there doesn't seem to be any good solutions to those problems.
Plus it's not just the crimes. Multiculturalism has failed, because it assumed it would result in some sort of diverse utopia, where all those vastly different cultures would coexist peacefully, fully respecing each other, interacting with themselves on regular basis, forming a new kind of society. Kind of a more advanced version of USA. But that turned out to be simply impossible. Instead what happened was that a group of migrants didn't integrate at all and instead created a sort of parrell society to native one, and as times goes by both of those societies are more and more hostile against eachother.
EU countries foolishly forgot that integration and assimilation is hard and painful process Even for good people who want to integrate and are given enourmous support. If you don't bassicaly force integration by throwing those people alone inside native populaton, it simply won't happen. Moving to different country, different culture and different language is traumatic experience. If you allow such person to seek solace among poeple from his orginal culture he will. The only way to suceed is to make such solace impossible. But in many western countries it's too late for that. Decades of goverments allowing people to not integrate are legacy that won't go away in any reasonable time frame. Wilders or Le Pen can scream all they want, but the migrant population in their countries is so big that their "let's throw everyone out" aproach would be impossible to achieve.
That said, just because some countries screwed up like this doesn't mean that everybody in EU should join them in their problems. There's nothing wrong with a citizens of certain countries who wish to remain homogenous. Diversity and multiculturalism isn't an obligation, especially when it's obvious that much more open and richer countries are screwing it up.
