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Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that Germany has failed to create a multicultural society where aliens are well-integrated.
According to her, people from so many different nationalities cannot live side by side without adapting to the German society. Her Christian Democrats (CDU) party has been demanding from her to take stricter actions against those who don’t show willingness to integrate. In response, she agreed rules have been too lenient towards foreigners before, and that the main thing they should do once in the country, is learn German. This way, they could attend school and have greater chances to find jobs. Germany does need skilled …
Europe is stressing on the high number of immigrants floating the continent, and some of the biggest economies like Germany and UK fear that immigrants harm – rather than support – their economies and cultures.
In UK the immigrants, who are increasing extremely fast, are filling up the job availability, and the UK nationals fear that the unemployment rate will keep growing. In addition, the constant wave of foreigners coming into the country is bringing foreign traditions and customs with it, and is thus completely changing the national culture – slowly but surely.
Despite all fears and problems coming with the mass immigration to Europe, …
The word “migration” usually evokes more negative associations than positive. People naturally feel endangered by foreigners coming into their countries—immigrants– because the newcomers could take their jobs or could change their culture. On the other hand, those who are moving to a new place—emigrants–are scared from the unknown and unexpected.
Migration, in fact, is not necessarily a bad thing. In an article at news.bbc.co.uk,
by Dr. Marlou Schrover, history department, Leiden University, Netherlands, he explains:
“Fear of migrants rests upon the fear of change, and especially changes to culture. Culture is, however, not a fixed concept.
Cultures change continuously over time. The …
