Hat tip Gates of Vienna
Heinz Buschkowsky is the mayor of the Berlin district of Neu Kolln. The German periodical, Bild, has published a 5-part essay by Buschkowsky descring the intolerable situation in his district, which is 41% immigrant. It is a testament to one society's failure to assimilate immigrants. Part 1 can be linked below (English translation) through Gates of Vienna.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-bitter-truth-about-multiculturalism.html
At the below link, you can access parts 2-5. It is also worthwhile to read the comments, some of which compare European immigration to American immigration.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-are-you-doing-to-further.html
One major reason why Europe's immigration has failed is that while they were importing workers to do the work Europeans were not willing to do, there was little to no emphasis on assimilation. The immigrant community was able to cluster together in their own enclaves, many of which are now "no-go' zones for natives. To aggravate the matter, the Europeans seem unable to demand that these immigrants accept and respect the European traditions and values. Is it now too late?
In the US, those who came from Muslim countries tended to be educated folks, who could more easily assimilate, at least professionally and economically. In some of these cases, it is their off-spring who are being caught up in the radicalization within Islam that is sweeping the world. One significant difference is that American Muslim youth is not part of a wave of street crime and violence as we see in Europe.
Our challenge here at home is not to bow to this idea of multi-cultural, post-colonial political correctness that downplays our own traditions in values in favor of any and all of those brought by immigrants, whether good or bad. We need to be wise as to how many immigrants we need and from where they should come. Good immigrants can come from any part of the world, but assimilation is going to be harder from certain parts of the world as compared to others. Is it wrong to take that into consideration?
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One major reason why Europe's immigration has failed is that while they were importing workers to do the work Europeans were not willing to do...
Well, that's a big part of the problem right there. And Europeans didn't WANT them to assimilate. They wanted them to do the grunt work during their best years, then go HOME. Now they've woken up to the fact that life isn't like that. Those who do the work tend to stick around in hopes of enjoying the benefits.
Sort of like San Francisco after World War II, when the mayor wondered when all the colored folks who came to work in the defense industries were going to move back to Mississippi. (Fat chance).
America used to have ethnic ghettoes like that, but a strong trade union movement brought us out of that. (To be fair, so did common service in World War II).
Europe hasn't decided if its WANTS Africans and Asians to assimilate, or leave, and that leaves them in a limbo where crime and terror breed.
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