Merkel Admits German Multiculturalism Has "Utterly Failed"

What has failed is application.  New immigrants have to be educated to adjust to their new society and also to working in a new dispensation of community.  They also have to be willing.

For that reason you recruit a few of the unwilling as possible.  Merely consider the criminally minded.  You have to chose wisely.  

The second problem confounding all such efforts is that Muslim leaders in particular are motivated to work at cross purposes as well to preserve their own position and status.  this also has to be addressed.

Canada has made it its business to promote multiculturalism and this has worked well enough.  But this has never meant ignoring what i just said.  Over time all the obvious imported conflicts do diminish well enough to produce a fresh army of young loyal Canadians, whose parents all retained their old loyalties to their life's end.  It is a real and viable process, but it is a process.

Merkel Admits German Multiculturalism Has "Utterly Failed" 

by Tyler Durden

Mon, 10/21/2019 - 05:15 

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/merkel-admits-german-multiculturalism-has-utterly-failed

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her attempt to create a multicultural society has "utterly failed," and that too little had been required of immigrants who refuse to integrate into German culture. 

Merkel told an audience of young members of her Christian Democrats (CDU) that allowing people of differing cultural backgrounds to live side by side without such integration was a huge mistake, according to Reuters, which notes that approximately four million Muslims live in the country. 

"This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed," said Merkel during the meeting in Potsdam, south of Berlin. 

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Merkel faces pressure from within her CDU to take a tougher line on immigrants who don’t show a willingness to adapt to German society and her comments appeared intended to pacify her critics. 

She said too little had been required of immigrants in the past and repeated her usual line that they should learn German in order to get by in school and have opportunities on the labor market. -Reuters

 

The stunning admission comes weeks after the former director of Germany's foreign intelligence service, Dr August Hanning, suggested Merkel had created a "security crisis" in Germany due to her open-border policy. (Summit News) 

“We have seen the consequences of this decision in terms of German public opinion and internal security – we experience problems very day,” he said. 

“We have criminals, terrorist suspects and people who use multiple identities. Those who carried out the Berlin attacks used 12 different identities,” added Hanning. 

“While things are tighter today, we still have 300,000 people in Germany of whose identities we cannot be sure. That’s a massive security risk,” he warned. 

Merkel has been treading a fine line between German nationalists and Islam - telling natives to accept that mosques are now a part of their landscape, though also saying on Saturday that the education of unemployed Germans should take precedent over that of foreign workers (though adding that Germany couldn't get by without skilled foreign workers). 

And while the German chancellor speaks out of one side of her mouth, her Labor Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) suggested that the country should lower the barriers to entry for foreign workers in order to supplement the country's lack of skilled labor. 

"For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it," she told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, adding "Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward." 

Christian Social Union (CSU) chairman Horst Seehofer, meanwhile, rejects all attempts to relax immigraion laws, saying last week that Germany has no more room for people from "alien cultures."

According to the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), Germany lacks approximately 400,000 skilled workers. 

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