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On what was clearly a slow news day, the Boston Sunday Globe delivered the shocking details (front page, above the fold) of Harvard’s horrifying lack of diversity… in its Hall of Portraiture. In a dramatic report, Globe staffer Tracy Jan pours on the prose: “In this ornate meeting room adorned with crystal chandeliers, Greek columns, and Oriental carpets hang images of Harvard’s most venerable figures — row upon row of stone-faced alumni, professors, and presidents. They are mostly men; all are white.” Does this really come as a shock to anyone? Frankly, the real surprise to me is that this...

A gang of Asian ‘sexual predators’ were jailed yesterday for abusing white girls as young as 12. The five men preyed on their victims over several months and threatened them with violence if they refused their advances. One of the men branded his victim a ‘white bitch’ when she resisted, while a second smirked: ‘I’ve used you and abused you.' The men, all British-born Pakistanis, attacked the four girls in play areas, parks and in the back of their cars, Sheffield Crown Court heard. They gave them gifts and introduced them to their friends. The girls were abused so frequently...

Gunfire broke out in Matamoros Friday, leaving at least 47 people dead and causing the closure of all three bridges between Brownsville and Mexico. The fighting reportedly involved members of the Gulf Cartel, the Zetas and Mexican federal police and military University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College closed the Fort Brown campus and moved the soccer games scheduled for Friday night to the Brownsville Sports Park. Gunfire was reported in Matamoros in a number of incidents beginning Friday morning, with at least 30 people dead by around noon, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on...

The 2012 presidential election is fast approaching. The five Republican candidates are participating in a nationally televised debate. One of the questions read by the moderator is selected from among dozens submitted by audience members. The question reads: “I am a young immigrant who recently moved to the United States. What are two things I can do to become a success in America?” Four candidates give responses so vague the audience can hardly discern their meaning. Then the fifth candidate gives her answer, which would soon dominate newspaper headlines across America: “Learn English and adopt Christian values.” It’s tough to...

Pope Benedict has called on immigrants to respect the laws and national identity of their host countries. He said that every country had the right to regulate the flow of migration and immigrants had a duty to integrate.The Pope's comments are likely to add to the Europe-wide debate about integration of foreigners.The Vatican traditionally identifies with migrants and refugees and recently criticised France for deporting 1,000 Roma (gypsies) to Romania and Bulgaria.During the summer, about 200 camps were dismantled.The policy aroused a sharp response from the EU and prompted the Pope to tell French pilgrims they should "accept legitimate human...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is right: multiculturalism doesn't work. In fact, it is evident that the policy has failed miserably wherever it has been attempted in the Western world - including Canada. More and more European nations are waking to this reality. Pierre Trudeau's legacy of trying to create a society where people from all parts of the world could come to Canada and keep own culture has proven a mirage. The billions spent on multiculturalism instead of assimilation has resulted in a nation where no real, single 'Canadian culture' exists. Instead, we see thousands of immigrants living off of...

Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, last week declared that multi-culturalism in Germany has failed, not just failed but ‘utterly failed.’ Her words are worrying and pose questions of substance about the immigration experience in general and Muslim immigration in particular. The worry comes from a feeling that Muslims in Europe are increasingly being targeted. The overt talk is of a failure of multiculturalism, but the subtext is the alienation felt towards Muslims in the population. In Merkel’s Germany, the immigrants in question are mainly Turkish. There are 2.5 million of them and Merkel thinks they have not done enough to adapt...

"We . . . take our form-freedom balance in government for granted as though it were natural. There is form in acknowledging the obligations in society, and there is freedom in acknowledging the rights of the individual. . . . There is a balance here which we have come to take as natural in the world. It is not natural in the world. We are utterly foolish if we look at the long span of history and read the daily newspapers giving today's history and do not understand that the form-freedom balance in government which we have had in Northern...

DIVERSITY vs. E PLURIBUS UNUM Diversity. What a pleasant sounding word. I see colorful posters bearing the word placed in prominence around the office where I work. I often see the word applied in noble motto: “Strength in Diversity” or “Celebrate Diversity”. What a lovely sentiment. What could be wrong with that? I am a German American, whose original German-born ancestor arrived in the United States of America in 1853 following the death of his first wife. I’m quite sure his life in Germany was shattered. He came to America destitute, with small children in tow. He remarried an Ohio...

Multiculturalism has completely failed. That’s the assessment of Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, in a recent speech before the youth wing of her conservative political party, the Christian Democratic Union. The idea that disparate peoples can “simply live side by side and live happily with each other” has failed, she said. “Utterly failed.” Merkel insisted that Germany still welcomes immigrants, particularly those whose high-tech skills make them valuable workers. But she conditioned that welcome upon a warning: “We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity — that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in...

There was a reason that employers in the middle of the 19th century had signs that said, No Irish need apply — and why employers in the middle of the 20th century no longer had such signs. It was not that employers had changed. The Irish had changed. The Catholic Church for years worked to bring about such changes among the Irish immigrants and their offspring, just as various religious and secular organizations among the Jews, among blacks, and among other groups worked to bring about changes within their respective groups. By and large these efforts paid off. All these...

National Identity: Germany's leader confronts head-on the consequences of essentially open borders and virtually unrestricted immigration to German society. What they have there, she says, is a failure to assimilate. Mention controlling the flow of immigration here and you're branded a "nativist" consumed with xenophobia — fear of foreigners. We're a nation of immigrants, we are told. We have an iconic symbol, the Statue of Liberty, that beckons the world's huddled masses yearning to breathe free. We are deluged with slogans such as compassion doesn't stop at the border. We're told that our society will suffer if we don't let...

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany's attempt to create a multi-cultural society has failed completely, Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the weekend, calling on the country's immigrants to learn German and adopt Christian values. Merkel weighed in for the first time in a blistering debate sparked by a central bank board member saying the country was being made "more stupid" by poorly educated and unproductive Muslim migrants.... ...A recent study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank showed around one-third of Germans feel the country is being "over-run by foreigners" and the same percentage feel foreigners should be sent home when jobs...

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany's attempt to create a multi-cultural society has failed completely, Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the weekend, calling on the country's immigrants to learn German and adopt Christian values. Merkel weighed in for the first time in a blistering debate sparked by a central bank board member saying the country was being made "more stupid" by poorly educated and unproductive Muslim migrants. "Multikulti", the concept that "we are now living side by side and are happy about it," does not work, Merkel told a meeting of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has declared the death of multiculturalism in Germany, saying that it had "failed utterly" , in what has been interpreted as a startling shift from her previous views. The German leader said it had been an illusion to think that Germans and foreign workers could "live happily side by side. "We kidded ourselves for a while that they wouldn't stay, but that's not the reality," she said at a conference of the youth wing of her Christian Democratic Union party at the weekend, referring to the gastarbeiters, or guest workers, who arrived in Germany to fill a...

Angela Merkel, Germany’s head of state has stated her opinion of “multikulti”,or multiculturalism in unusually blunt terms, referring to it as “an utter failure” The BBC quotes Chancellor Merkel as follows. “the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country… We kidded ourselves a while, we said: ‘They won’t stay, sometime they will be gone’, but this isn’t reality. “And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed.” Chancellor Merkel stressed that she...

Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer continued his anti-immigrant attacks on Friday night, addressing the youth wing of the conservatives and telling them "multiculturalism is dead." “We as the (Christian Democratic) Union stand for the dominant German culture and against multiculturalism – multiculturalism is dead,” he said according to news magazine Der Spiegel. Speaking at the Junge Union national meeting in Potsdam, Seehofer’s latest attack on the idea of Germany being a country of immigration followed his recent call to stop Turks and Arabs from moving to Germany. Yet he said his speech was not a lurch to the right, rather...

Clinton is right: "Russians" in Israel don't really want peace, that kind of peace which Bill Clinton imposed on Serbs in Kosovo. Clinton's words that Russian-speaking Israelis are an obstacle to reaching peace can be understood in different ways. Excluding their emotional component, it is necessary to recognize that the immigrants from the former Soviet Union are most opposed to the Israeli/Palestinian peace process (or what is implied by this term). Let's look at the root of this phenomenon. The rose-colored glasses of "multiculturalism" hide the fact that there are three civilizations in our world: postmodern liberal democracies, states of...

Opus of an old time Democrat. The following email came from a friend who is unarguably one of the most talented secondary school teachers in America in the last few decades. He is from an old Tennessee mountain family, where all were (and nearly all still are) Democrats. My friend’s devotion to the Founding Documents would make him a welcome dinner companion (assuming a time machine were available) at most any table in most any of the homes of those who signed those documents. Yeah, he is a history teacher, as you surely guessed by now. This email is an...

From the 'I never thought I'd say this' file: the latest move by the C.B.C., Canada's national embarrassment network, announced this week they were pulling the plug on their online broadcasts of Hockey Night In Canada in the Punjabi language. Yes, they did show hockey games on their website in Punjabi. For two years the C.B.C. had made available the Saturday night staple in the country's fourth-most spoken language. While this will not have any impact on the billion dollars of funding MotherCorp receives annually, it is good news for those of us who have long complained of diversity run...