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Germany’s failed experiment in multiculturalism – not to be confused with the acceptance of other cultures – has come to an end (Hat-tip: Hot Air):

“Multikulti”, the concept that “we are now living side by side and are happy about it,” does not work, Merkel told a meeting of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at Potsdam near Berlin.

“This approach has failed, totally,” she said, adding that immigrants should integrate and adopt Germany’s culture and values.

…”Subsidising immigrants” isn’t sufficient, Germany has the right to “make demands” on them, she added, such as mastering the language of Goethe and abandoning practices such as forced marriages.

Multiculturalism is the idea that it is up to the host society to accommodate new arrivals, rather than the responsibility of immigrants to adapt and assimilate. This pernicious doctrine – promoted most often by the self-hating far left, which never really liked Western society anyway – leads ultimately to Balkanization.

America, unfortunately, has increasingly abandoned the time-tested idea of a melting pot – in which society and new arrivals blend together – in favor of the self-flagellation of multiculturalism. Perhaps Germany’s example can lead us to correct our own course before it’s too late.

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