Native-born v Newcomers

Merkel: Multiculturalism in Germany a Failure

20 years after reunification, the country hasn't even been able to completely integrate ethnically identical former East Germans, let alone an influx of Islam from multiple generations of Turkish "guest workers."

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Andrew Nagorski, vice president and director of public policy at the EastWest Institute, says that for all our problems here in the U.S. with immigration, we have coped with it better than many European societies. Baha Gungor, head of the Turkish language section of Deutsche Welle radio, has lived in Germany for 50 years and think Merkel's comments are misguided.

Ein Land, nicht ein Volk The Takeaway 10/19/10, Hosts: John Hockenberry & Celeste Headlee

In Canada, whose population of non-immigrants is already bifurcated along English/French linguistic lines, a panel assembled by the nationally distributed Toronto Globe and Mail discussed whether multiculturalism enriches Canada's mosaic or is a mistake?

In a 10/8/10 editorial, the paper said Canada needs to refocus the debate, and have the courage to build a successful society around the concept of citizenship and purge the word multiculturalism from the nation's vocabulary.