http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/1...m.html?ref=rss
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Angela Merkel said Saturday that the concept that different cultures can live happily side by side does not work.
Merkel made the comments during a speech in Potsdam to youth members of her Christian Democratic Union party.
She stressed that immigrants need to do more to integrate, including learning to speak German.
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Before this quote came out, my coworkers were talking about this. They seemed to have come to the same conclusion. Ever since the economy dipped, people in many different affluent western countries have had more and more people show a negative attitude toward immigration and different ethnic groups they perceive as being foreign.
Do you guys think multiculturalism has failed? Should we follow the US example of assimilation like Merkel suggests?
I have always thought the Canadian mosaic style of multiculturalism was one of our best features as a nation, but I get the feeling many Albertans disagree.