Merkel: Germany is becoming a 'country of immigration' | A number of crises have driven people to seek refuge in Germany, prompting backlash from worried citizens. Now Chancellor Merkel is calling on them to welcome the diversity, saying Germany is a "country of immigration."

USA has always been driven by immigration, the problem today is that it's easier to go and live there illegally than through legal means. As an European ,it's almost impossible to me to move to US and work there legally. So USA ends up with the immigrants they don't want or need.

Most European countries are not "multicultural", some countries like France or UK have a lot of people from Africa, but these populations are highly concentrated in very few areas and aren't considered French or British by the rest of the population, it doesn't matter whether they have been here for 60+ years or more.

USA are built on the fact that anybody that believes in "american values" can be , if he works hard, an american. So americans are not a "people" like the Germans, the Scottish the Irish.

The problem is that Merkel is kinda promising something to the refugees that will never be true.They will never be considered Germans by white Germans,they will regroup in ghettos , and they will feel somehow "cheated" because they don't have it as "easy" as "natives", so they will end up hating the people that welcomed them,which will turn a good chunk of white Germans completely racist. That's basically what happened in France. If Germany thinks it can do a better job, by all means.

But Merkel speech which sounds a bit like "you Germans, should accommodates the culture of these refugees" is a bit arrogant and dangerous. But why would she care? she wont be here when Germans have to pay the heavy social price of these kinds of policies. Same for Sweden by the way. If they think they can miraculously succeed where countries like France failed, good for them. But I don't believe it one second.

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