Multiculturalism is a Failure

The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, told her party yesterday a bitter truth: multiculturalism has failed. Germany tried it—foreigners living side by side—and it didn't work.

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 The Christian Science Monitor has one of the many reports on this speech on its website.

At "the beginning of the 1960s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country," said Ms. Merkel at the event in Potsdam, near Berlin. "We kidded ourselves a while. We said: 'They won't stay, [after some time] they will be gone,' but this isn't reality. And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side by side and to enjoy each other ... has failed, utterly failed."

The crowd gathered in Potsdam greeted the above remark, delivered from the podium with fervor by Ms. Merkel, with a standing ovation. And her comments come just days after a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank (which is affiliated with the center-left Social Democratic Party) found that more than 30 percent of people believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners" who had come to Germany chiefly for its social benefits.

The turnaround on Merkel's part is in response to a turnaround in Germany generally, in part started by a book I profiled earlier by Thilo Sarrazin, then a board member of Germany's central bank, which said Germany was becoming stupider because of cousin marriage by Muslim immigrants.

She now says immigrants must make a greater effort to learn German and integrate into German society. This, presumably, would include a little intermarrying with Saxon damsels with braided blond hair over the age of 18 in a Church.

The lesson to take away from this is not the one the British editors put on the Merkel story. It is not 'German Multiculturalism Has Failed,' it is that Multiculturalism as a concept, as a conceit really, has failed, and not just in Germany, but everywhere.

Especially Canada.

We need to heed the German lesson before we get to the German Muslim population numbers. We need to abolish the Canadian Multiculturalism Act and to amend the Constitution to take multiculturalism out of the Charter (currentily item 27). In addition, the Canadian Human Rights Commission, the enforcer of the Act, needs to be abolished and everyone associated with it either fired or charged with a criminal offense.

We have a lot of work to do and Germany has shown us the direction we need to go to do it.