Re: We do not have this problem in CA here are few Muslims and a lot of Mexicans Mexicans are integrating just fine.
Really?! Check again:
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Re: Do you think it is possible that France will be able to integrate Muslims? Or they will continue to live in the separate communities?
You insinuate that Muslims --mainly (North-)Africans and Turks-- are solely liable for their "integration" into French/European society or the failure thereof... I think you should put the question the other around:
Do you think it is possible that France will be able to adjust herself to XXIst-century demographics? Or she will continue to discriminate against ethnic minorities and segregate herself?
I think Europe's immigration problem is developping along two opposite, counter-balancing trends: one shows a pattern of successful "integration" over the past 20 years. I mean, take France (or Belgium, Britain,...) 20 years ago: there were no "immigrant success story" to talk about. Most immigrants were second-generation children who didn't have the opportunity to attend college, to work as white-collar nine-to-fivers, to make it into the middle class (and out of their parents' blue-collar toil).(*)
But then, what a change 20 years can make: today there are French and Belgian ministers of Algerian, Moroccan and Turkish ancestry... Bank offices located in immigrant ghettoes are even hiring Moroccan clerks!!! So far so good... but there's a flip side: twenty years ago, far-right, white-supremacist parties belonged to the political fringes, barely winning 10% at the polls. Today, however, far-right parties are on a roll --across Europe... Hence Turkey's uphill battle to join the EU: it's not the Turks who don't want to "fit in", it's European elites who snub the Muslim riffraff....
Yet, I'm hopeful: the eventual integration of Europe with its non-European minorities will be hastened by... the rise of China --and of Asia as a whole. I expect the coming Chinese leadership in life sciences, computers, renewable energies, etc will somehow humble Europe's assertiveness and make her more amenable to tap the talents and skills of "lesser breeds".... Wait and see!
Gus
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