Reply #37: Don't let the facts get in the way of bigotry! [View All]

[HankyDubs]

Of course, Americans are fortunate that they all live in perfect multicultural harmony and have no ghettos in their cities.

Strawman. No one here said the US is perfect. The term ghetto has a specific meaning in this context, please don't use it so ignorantly.

some multiculuralist thinking is not a million miles from the concept of separate development that flourished under apartheid.

So Multiculturalism = Apartheid? :spray: Actually the arguments you are making are "not a million miles from the concept of separate development that flourished under apartheid."

"The reality is that Merkel simply recognises that for a society to cohere needs at least some shared cultural values."

Sounds great. How about mutual respect and tolerance for lingusitic/cultural difference. Crazy right!?!?

Germans know all to well what happens when that occurs.

Because the Nazis were promoting multiculturalism, right? RIGHT?

Lemme tell you something, buster. After WWII there was a labor shortage in Germany. Turks in particular were invited north because they were needed to rebuild German society. I went to HS in Germany, at a German school. The kids called each other "Turk" as an insult, not all that different from when kids in the US call each other "gay."

Forced assimilation is not a positive thing. It's an ugly, nasty thing. Look up "Dawes Act" to see how it plays out in the US, or "The Stolen Generation" in Australia.

Fortunately Germans aren't monolithic and most are not as ignorant as people claiming that multiculturalism = Apartheid.