what's the problem with multiculturalims in europe? why are europeans against that?
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Why can't they accept moslem culture? Eww! No! Why can't Saudi arabia, or other moslem world accept the europian culture? In my opinion, the Europian culture, unlike the arab culture is very accepting. You hear of mosques being built in Europe, America, and in other places, have you heard of churches in Saudi Arabia or any other star worshipping countries? It's the moslem culture corrupting the world. Moslems teach violence as "must do" to get to heaven. It's the moslems that will burn churches, kill innocent souls, all in the name of their allah. I really wish the moslem religion would be extinct. God, the world would be a safer place. Then we can travel in planes with no terror threat. Islam is the worst thing, after Hitler's atrocities, that has happened to our world.
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that's crap about not liking black people.  i live in germany now and they're no more racist today than anywhere else.  you'll always have your share of jerks anywhere....germany is no exception.  they love to drink and socialize, they have quiet hours at certain times of the day, ex: lunch hour from 1130-230.  you can't do things such as mow your yard, etc....they take much pride in their environment, they are very clean and they sweep their streets and sidewalks every week.  they manicure the plants and trees.....they don't leave their car running to keep the air clean...actually i think it's a law.  they are very concious of keeping their environment clean and healthy.  they shop on a daily basis for meats and produce....it's a beautiful country all around.
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The problem with the U.K is that people are not motivated to work that is regardless of their nationality. Instead a labour government is happy to have vast sections of the population reliant on state benefits so that they will vote labour again.  Furthermore, most countries in the nor then European union are very similar.  The problem is education, many British people receive a substandard education compared to the rest of Europe. The media advertise selfishness and sex and a vast section of families are broken or they are the notorious mixed step families where a mom will have kids from 5 different fathers.   Moral and educational decay,  lack of discipline,  over involvement of social services and governments on peoples private liefs.   Lack of social cohesion.    Its the same in the whole of the European union now days.  Britain can be a very dangerous place to live now days.  Most areas are what you would call rough.   The country is decaying .
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Unfortunately there are still people out there that are still racist, they are not used to different things. They do indeed bring back crafts and gifts and I do not understand that either, if they hate the people so much, why visit the country if you're not going to have a positive attitude and a good mood to go with it. I'm British myself, as some of you may say we are moaners because I have come across people on holidays where they are rude to the locals when all they are doing is running around backwards for them to make sure their holiday is as comfortable as possible and there is no pleasing them! I find this frustrating too, and thankfully you can tell everyone else that this Brit is not the same as the rest. I am so friendly to the local people and I appreciate their culture, language and respect their country. I love to travel and yes, some racists are two faced, when they are confronted with someone of power they will hide away and act like the cowards they are! This is pathetic of them and I myself am ashamed that in this day and age, there are still people who are prejudging or stereotyping people of a race or nationality. This just needs to stop because quite frankly it's getting boring!
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There are stereotypes,there is a stigma,there is xenophobia.Ppl are scared that they are losing their country to immigrants.
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Europeans seem to have their act together in a lot of ways. America lives in the dark ages. Just look at the Neanderthal who first answered this question.
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Americans that are Europhobic are so because they are ignorant.  However, I do not believe being "europhobic" is the case most of the time.  I think it has to do with the many difference between the different cultures.  If you have relatives who immigrated not too long ago from Europe then you are more likely to be accepting and fit in with the European differences in our two clutures.
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No mate... you're not..\n\nI live in a large city with a very high ethnic/immigrant population. I have grown up with people from all cultures and am pleased that my children don't recognise racial and religious differences. I am now way racist and shirk from saying anything because of the fear of being branded as such...\n\nBut...... enough is enough...\n\nI work in a small town where the majority of people are racist and I hate their attitudes... but you can see the popularity of what they say growing...\n\nI have concerns for the future.. I worry that it will be ok in the future to be openly racist and aggressive to minorities, as was acceptable in Nazi Germany...\n\nAll of our politicians, irrespective of political persussion must do something soon to stop the "immigration" issue becoming a negative issue upon which bigots can campaign and stand. It's a worry... but equally worrying is the fact that we really are being swamped.\n\nI recently completed a canvass for the local Council by completing their electoral registers in a few wards. Iwas shocked at the number of nationalities represented: Poles, Czechs, Russians, Italians, French, Germans, Gambians, Ghanaians, Phillpinos, Burmese, Jamaican, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Croatian, Indian, Chinese, Danish, Potugeese and Hungarian.\n\nIt came as a shock to find so many confined in such a small area. It was like a ghetto...\n\nReally... it's time to act with sense and decency before more radical steps have to be taken.
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Europe, and especially western Europe, is in the midst of a crisis of civilizational morale. IT IS DYING. The most dramatic manifestation of that crisis is not to be found in Europe's fondness for governmental bureaucracy, socialism or its devotion to fiscally shaky health care schemes and pension plans, in Europe's lagging economic productivity or in the appeasement mentality and cowardice that some European leaders display toward Islamist terrorism. No, the most dramatic manifestation of Europe's crisis of civilizational morale is the brute fact that Europe is DEPOPULATING itself.\n\nEurope's below-replacement-level birthrates have created situations that would have been unimaginable when the institutions of European integration were formed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. By 2050, if present fertility patterns continue, 60 percent of the Italian people will have no personal experience of a brother, a sister, an aunt, an uncle, or a cousin; Germany will lose the equivalent of the population of the former East Germany; and Spain's population will decline by almost one-quarter. Europe is depopulating itself at a rate unseen since the Black Death of the fourteenth century.And one result of that is a Europe that is increasingly "senescent" (as British historian Niall Ferguson has put it).\n\nWhen an entire continent, healthier, wealthier, and more secure than ever before, fails to create the human future in the most elemental sense -- by creating the next generation -- something very serious is afoot. I can think of no better description for that "something" than to call it a crisis of civilizational morale. Understanding its origins is important in itself, and important for Americans because some of the acids that have eaten away at European culture over the past two centuries are at work in the United States, and indeed throughout the democratic world.\n\nThe demographics are unmistakable: Europe is dying. The wasting disease that has beset this once greatest of civilizations is not physical, however. It is a disease in the realm of the human spirit. David Hart, another theological analyst of contemporary history, calls it the disease of "metaphysical boredom," or boredom with the mystery, passion, and adventure of life itself. Europe, in Hart's image, is boring itself to death.\n\nAnd in the process, it is allowing radicalized twenty-first century Muslims -- who think of their forebears' military defeats at Poitiers in 732, Lepanto in 1571, and Vienna in 1683 (as well as their expulsion from Spain in 1492), as temporary reversals en route to Islam's final triumph in Europe -- to imagine that the day of victory is not far off. Not because Europe will be conquered by an invading army marching under the Prophet's banners, but because Europe, having depopulated itself out of boredom and culturally disarmed itself in the process, will have handed the future over to those Islamic immigrants who will create what some scholars call "Eurabia": the European continent as a cultural and political extension of the Arab-Islamic world. Should that happen, the irony would be unmistakable: the drama of atheistic humanism, emptying Europe of its soul, would have played itself out in the triumph of a thoroughly NONHUMANISTIC THEISM. Europe's contemporary crisis of civilizational morale would reach its bitter conclusion when Notre-Dame becomes Hagia Sophia on the Seine, another great Christian church become an Islamic museum. At which point, we may be sure, the human rights proclaimed by those narrow secularists who insist that a culture's spiritual aspirations have nothing to do with its politics would be in the gravest danger.\n\nWhat is fascinating is those east european countries that tasted the dead fruit of socialism, atheism and communism had shaken it off for good and western europe is demanding its own experience of the walking dead as seen in the vamp
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Is the question: Are you for it or against it?  I'm not European but looking at how many different countries and different cultures make up the European continent, I don't think we should just lump them all up into one.  I believe they would want their own identities and would like to keep their heritage alive.  Although it is well-meaning and optimistic to believe we should all be one and call ourselves citizens of the world, alas, that is not the case.  We are still culturally divided and as human beings inherently attached to tradition and view our past as well our future tied up to who we are and where we come from.
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Civil rights violations are quite common... especially among minorities and women.\n\nAmerica isn't free...... it's actually very expensive. \nAnd very prejudiced. \nAnd very materialistic.  \nAnd very competitive. \nAnd very hypocritical.\n\nThat's why I live in Europe.
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Its due to a lunatic politically correct government who operate a free for all policy. Other countries in Europe have a benefit system which is contribution based meaning you only get benefits if you pay into the system...the UK system will give you anything you want unless you are a tax paying law abiding English man then you have to fend for yourself. There are queues of immigrants waiting to come to the UK from France. the UK government are so frightened of being accused of being called racist that the easiest way to get whatever you want is to belong to a minority group.....The government also allows you do do whatever you want to do in the UK as long as you pretend that you don't speak English. Normal rules that apply to your average English citizen don't apply to immigrants be they black white yellow or blue.
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The Gypsies you are referring to live this way because of societal problems, of which you certainly are not the cause. The Gypsies are treated very badly all over Europe and were one of the racial groups badly persecuted by the Nazis, and to this day are considered non-Europeans. These are cultural differences and enforcement differences that are beyond your control, and beyond my control. Try not to become frustrated by a frustrating situation.\n\nThis is a case where people are being forced into what most people would consider appalling conditions, but because they spend some money on visible luxuries (tv dishes), it is difficult to not believe they either choose this lifestyle or that they are somehow cheating society.\n\nIt is very difficult to see someone who does not seem to be conforming to society's rules and not think harshly of them, after all we are able to conform even though it is difficult, we have made sacrifices to fit in, and we have given up aspects of our parents' or our grandparents' cultures because of it. The main thing, I believe, is to try not to believe the nonconformity is 'because they are Gypsies' or because they are another racial group. This will tend to be the first step on getting to a way of thinking that you will not recognize after you have gotten there.\n\nThe feelings you have about this situation are completely natural, and unfortunately they are feelings used by others to manipulate us into behaving in ways that we should be ashamed of. When situations start to get into areas they should not, make certain your complaints go to the police or other civil authorities whose job it is to deal with these problems; there are certain steps to take that are important, and which they have been trained to accomplish. When we get frustrated and think we know how to handle a situation like this, it is almost certainly a problem waiting to happen (they have to go someplace, but not here).\n\nYou are not a racist. Please, don't allow situations beyond your control to turn you into one.
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People from Western Europe/US tend to think of Eastern Europe and former Soviet countries as "not European" I have noticed....I guess because those countries were closed off for so long? Or they're arrogant? I don't know. Lame but true!
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Isn't it amazing how limited some peoples views are.  A few Muslims try to kill dozens of Europeans with car bombs and such.  Do the Europeans blame the entire Middle East?  NO!  A few European newspapers print some cartoons and the entire Middle East blames everybody in Europe.\n\nSo lets compare.  On one hand we have dead people, the other a cartoon.  Which is more serious?  \n\nComplain to the individuals that printed the cartoons and blame them.  It's not the country's fault or it's citizens.   I believe that the newspapers printed those cartoons to upset Muslims and so they could sell more newspapers\n\nEven though these countries in Europe believe in freedom of religion, if these immigrants keep act up like they do, things might change for the worse.
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I'm not sure if its a pattern, but Its definitely NOT NEW. Every country back in the past 300 or so years had at least one immigration issue stemming from the difficulty of a few immigrants to assimilate, and unfortunately due to typical human insecurity and prejudice this expands into racism and hate. The Jews in Europe are one of the more famous cases of this (yes there was hate of jews even before but it expanded considerably in the last 200-300 years), The US also had it with Germans and Asians in the pre-World War I/II years. In the end though in most of the cases the affected countries end up surviving the so-called "invasion".\n\nIts the same today... a few scum Hispanics defy US culture, then certain "Americans" take this to mean ALL Hispanics defy the USA. In Europe some radical Muslims make trouble and this results into a general prejudice against Muslims. However since this is today (not 50 or even 200 years ago) and the circumstances are different with new ideas like multiculturalism (which ironically increases ethnocentrism in some quarters)... so no one really knows 100% what the outcome of these issues are.
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Dear Friend,\n\nThat's a very interesting question.  \n\nPart of the problem is that the peoples of different nations believe many different things.  The religions of one nation condemn the religions of their neighbors.  The way of life in Nation A can be repugnant to everyone in Nation B.  As long as ideas are at war, people will be at war.\n\nIn addition to the culture clash, there's the general sense of people everywhere that political control should be local.  The feeling is that decisions concerning our lives shouldn't be made by people "over there" who don't have the sense of how our day to day life progresses.  \n\nLastly, there's a philosophical shift that we'd have to make between being a citizen of our nation and a citizen of the world.  It's in the works -- witness the EU -- but slowly, and with much resistance.  And that's normal.  Big changes take time.\n\nYour Friend,\nFrancesois