The historical observation is that the small minority of immigrants typically learn the language of their new adopted country and try so hard to let the majority around them accept them by attempting to emulate them. Dressing in the local fashion, learning the local culture, and so on.
It is common that the minority immigrants having slightly different taste in cloth, in food, or different accent will typically set them apart from the natives, and accordingly may attract a look of superiority from the natives, and a feeling of inferiority from the immigrants. That is life. Nevertheless, the immigrant children so eager to fit with the other kids, erase that obvious difference that their parents encountered. The experience of trying hard to fit in the new adopted country is so fresh in my mind even after 42 years in the USA. I remember the initial struggle with the English language, and the typical American expressions (After I got my first car, and was looking for an address, was surprised to read a street sign that said "dead end" meaning that at the end of the street I will fall off the cliff?) Just one of the many things that outsiders need to learn about the local expressions?. As a matter of fact my slight accent still betrays me after all these years, and I find it very uncomfortable when people insist on where I was born? The reason I try so hard to hide where I was born is simply because I am not proud of that third world country backward culture. I left it to become an American, I make fun of the old uncivilized traditions of the country that I grew up in.
Well enough about myself, the experiment of multiculturalism is a failure because you cannot have a society cohesiveness if you have a bunch of Arabs who feel that they are superior to the infidels. They want to dress in hijab, and impose their tradition/religion on the rest of us. The basic problem with assimilation in the past 25 years or so is CABLE TV, SATELLITE, COMPUTER, CELL PHONES! Historically, a family from Poland immigrated to Iowa, and finds no one who speaks polish, or learn about the news in their old country, so they are effectively forced to cut the cord, and become part of the larger culture. Now all the hundreds of different cultures are available to all immigrants 24x7 so why would they assimilate?
Since we cannot turn the clock back and force all immigrants to cut the cord and become part of us, the next best thing is to close our doors to any workers, or immigrants who come from cultures that hate us. You may say that is discrimination? I say if we have the most desirable destination and quality of life on earth, we also have the right to allow only people who don’t hate us to become part of us. You say how are we going to do that? I say it is easily done, just exclude the ACLU from having any input on how to evaluate petitions of new comers.
Isn't it about damned time? And isn't it, perhaps, just too damned late?
Multiculturalism = legalized ethnic cleansing
Which is worse? Multicultural Germany or Hitler’s Germany where those of non-German ancestry were shown the door, or worse?
That is NOT what a significant number of Muslims want (although I certainly know American Muslims who DO want to assimilate).