The problem with multiculturalism

Submitted by OIctavio (Italy), Dec 28, 2006 at 09:45

People who come to Europe should be asked to integrate into European society. They should be asked to learn about the European way of life. Sometimes, you are in Europe, and you think you are in the Middle East. My parents went to Morocco and they loved it. Why? Because it has got its own culture, relgion and traditions. It is unique. Europe is also unique. If you want to know why multiculturalism is the wrong system, just think about Northern Ireland or the former Yugoslavia.

If you put people together, it is never simple. We don't want war, we don't want sectarian and ethnic violence. That is why multiculturalism is a dangerous system. I am not a racial supremacist. I just don't believe that you can put different people together. At an individual level, relationships and friendships between different people can work. On a mass level, different people need to live under the same rules, otherwise a nation faces catastrophe. Multiculturalism want to turn Europe into a Balkanic union of states. Unless we want war, we must do away with multicultural policies.

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