Multiculturalism

I read an article the other week on the news. Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, has admitted that multiculturalism in Germany is dead, a wash-out, hasn't worked. They have all these foreign workers and they haven't really integrated... and regular Germans are getting intolerant and impatient with them.


And I thought... how is it that multiculturalism has worked relatively well in Canada and in the US... while being a flop in Germany? What comes to me immediately is the stuff leading up to World War II and the Holocaust... Pointing the finger at other ethnic or cultural groups and blaming them for the way things are. What with France kicking out the Roma... Who is Germany going to kick out? And what does it mean for a nation that already went through the Holocaust? Kind of scary actually...