it is already well known that integration is not happening. This is a huge problem. People spending years on welfare, unemployed, not speaking the language even after 20 years, not participating in society, actively hating this society, living in their own mini-culture within a culture, . The figures are out there.
To say "integration is not happening" is a blanket statement that doesn't reflect the reality of things and is also quite offensive to the many, many second or third generation immigrants who speak the language, are well educated, work and respect and share our liberal Western values.
Of course what you are saying sadly does apply to a pretty significant number of people, I don't think anyone is still denying that. Crude generalization aren't helpful though and there don't seem to be any easy solutions. To varying degrees we see these problems in most countries with a significant number of immigrants from certain cultures, be it Germany, France, Sweden or the UK. While we know that a lot of things have been going very wrong for a very long time, the events of Cologne are in my view a new quality of crime. Hence my statement that integration is going even worse than everyone previously thought.
I am sure the crimes will be investigated in Germany and the mrFrs will be found.*
How would that work? No arrests so far, but apparently there are "three suspects" now. How very promising.
Whoever did this will most likely get away with it. Impossible to identify the perpetrators, let alone convict them. I feel so sorry for those poor victims.
It takes 2-3 generations to change.
Sadly even 2-3 generations later, a significant percentage is not integrated at all or even makes less of an effort than their parents or grandparents.
I'm also not willing to wait 2 or 3 generations for anyone who has come here as a guest to understand that in Europe women have rights and aren't second class citizens...or at least shouldn't be. It's really not that hard to understand and whoever doesn't (want to) get it can fuck off back to where they came from as long as we can still get rid of them.
I read the policy of integration in Germany and is quite remarkable because there is money to put it into place.
Not sure I have seen any ideas that sound particularly promising. We haven't managed to properly integrate a much smaller number of people in previous decades. Why would we all of a sudden get it right with over a million new arrivals now?
Obviously we need to try our very best, doing nothing is not an option. None of the current plans seem all that revolutionary or like anywhere near enough though.
I dont think Merkel decided the open door policy because of guilt. She is an educated politician that did not want to see refugees drowned in the Aegean sea. I am sure Angela will put things right in Cologne.
Her open door policy did fuck all to save people from drowning in the Mediterranean Sea. In fact it encouraged a lot more people to go on such a dangerous journey in the first place.
I personally think "Angela" is completely deluded and has lost control of things quite some time ago. Declaring an open door policy with consulting the German parliament and our European neighbours first was a catastrophic move. I'm all for helping Syrian refugees but it would have been so much better to have a proper plan in place before we (read Angela) act.