February 21, 2011

Multiculturalism on the Rocks?

The Prime Minister of Great Britain, the president of France, and the German Chancellor have all recently been highly critical of multiculturalism.

David Cameron in the UK said "Let's properly judge these organizations: Do they believe in universal human rights - including for women and people of other faiths? Do they believe in equality of all before the law? Do they believe in democracy and the right of people to elect their own government? Do they encourage integration or separatism?"

Sarkozy in France said "It's a failure. The truth is that in all our democracies, we've been too concerned about the identity of the new arrivals and not enough about the identity of the country receiving them."

Angela Merkel in Germany said that multiculturalism has "utterly failed".

For anyone who applauds multiculturalism, I have a question...where are these European leaders going wrong?

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