The Germans, who 50 years ago learned that invading other nations doesn’t work, have now learned that allowing their own nation to be invaded doesn’t work, either.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come out and spoken the unspeakable, that “multikulti” – multiculturalism – hasn’t worked.
The BBC has her comments on multicultural mayhem:
Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at “the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country… We kidded ourselves a while, we said: ‘They won’t stay, sometime 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.”
… Mrs Merkel stressed that immigrants living in Germany needed to do more to integrate, including learning to speak German.
“Anyone who does not immediately speak German”, she said, “is not welcome”.
Multiculturalism is one of our pet peeves. Liberals swear that it is the panacea for all the world’s ills, but far as we can tell, it’s just another of those baseless beliefs that become part of the liberal psyche.
In the words of Michael Savage, “Borders, language, culture.”
(By the way, in case you were wondering, unsinn is the German word for nonsense. We only used it because we couldn’t find a German translation for bullshit.)
Source: BBC
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Bulle Schiesse is German for the word you are looking for. My dad's wife is German.
Simply put, by definition multiculturalism divides, rather than unite. A population divided is ripe for failure. Remember that old saw "United we stand, divided we fall. Language in particular is a problem, since translation is done in concepts, not word for word. That is why idioms are so difficult for new learners. So Non-English speakers are hearing someone else's view on the content of a remark, not the remark itself. And we all know that sometimes translations don't quite hit the mark. Legal immigrants looking for citizenship have to learn English, American history, and Civics, including studying the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Ammendments and the Declaration of Independance. The multiple amnesty bills have allowed for an ever growing population of immigrants who don't speak the Language, and are clueless about how the country works,
Ed: Ref. "The Germans, who 50 years ago learned..." Your showing your age - actually it was 70 years ago. Doesn't time fly.... :-)
My grandfather came to this country after WWII with 3 young children and an ill wife with 75 cents in his pocket. He spoke not a word of english. He cared for his children and his wife, worked two jobs and also attended night school, weekend schooling and devoured english every chance he got. Within a year he was fluent and all of his grandchildren are professional graduates. That generation looked at North America as the land of milk and honey, streets paved with gold, and embraced everything about American culture while still teaching the lessons of their roots. Why is it that only the islamists seem to think we need to convert to their culture and religion when they immigrate?
Problem is that many Muslims follow the "divine imperative" of world Islamic conquest either by 1) force of arms or 2) politically, by out-numbering the native population of infidels.
Arafat once said their greatest weapon was the womb. La Raza probably said it too.
I have a simple solution that kills two birds with one stone:
Build lots of nuclear power plants
Deposit waste along border.
When mexicans run across it, their genitals get irradiated and rendered sterile. Win, win!
Nobody ever intended for multiculturalism to work, it is a method by which Liberals aim to keep ethnics as pets for their votes. Divide and conquer.
How does an education system thrive if the students dont all speak the same language? Multiculturalism will continually fail until everyone understands the sacrifices. That includes a willingness by immigrants to learn the language used in the country they move to.
Finally, a voice of sanity from Europe.
Being an Army puke, I would offer to Mr. Editor the German word "schizer" to substitute for unshinn.
And let comparisons to Hitler begin!