Die eiserne Kanzlerin hat gesprochen (with video):

Merkel says German multicultural society has failed

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel: “lmmigrants should learn to speak German”

Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed”, Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

She said the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate – including learning German.

The comments come amid rising anti-immigration feeling in Germany.

A recent survey suggested more than 30% of people believed the country was “overrun by foreigners”.

The study – by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think-tank [some Canada-related material from them here] – also showed that roughly the same number thought that some 16 million of Germany’s immigrants or people with foreign origins had come to the country for its social benefits…

“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.”

In her speech in Potsdam, however, the chancellor made clear that immigrants were welcome in Germany…

Earlier, from Adrian:

Toronto Too Crowded? Uh, Yeah.

…To criticize Toronto’s growth of just under 100,000 new residents every year could be seen as an attack on the multicultural identity that the leftwing apparatchik in city council lives by.

…It’s one thing to welcome “diversity”, and quite another to willingly ignore the massive ethnic blocs that have been created by the GTA’s absorption of the lion’s share of immigration.

When I left my hometown of Brampton in 2008, the city had become densely crowded with South Asian immigrants, primarily Sikh Indians who have developed a vast cultural enclave inside of Canada. As Gurmukh Singh wrote in the Toronto Sun last year, immigration has brought “rapid ghettoization” of mini cities in which multiple ethnic enclaves have become isolated compartmentalized quarters.

Yet this “diversity” still comes with a price that not only makes Toronto less affordable for Canadian citizen and immigrant alike, but puts more pressure on the base with each additional arrival…

Plus from me:

Multiplying like…

As for Kaputt, well worth the read though somewhat gruesomely embellished.

Mark
Ottawa