February, 2006

Multiculturalism is Marvelous for Restaurants

by Theodore Dalrymple
The Conversation
February 21st, 2006

I think Prof. Smith underestimates some of the difficulties of multiculturalism in the European context at any rate. No one is suggesting that people who come to European countries should forget where they come from, eat the same food as the people who are already present there, and in short should make themselves exactly identical [...]

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Integration and Wounded Pride

by Anne Applebaum
The Conversation
February 19th, 2006

I’m sure Dr. Dalyrymple is right about work being the best possible way to integrate foreigners. I can well imagine that much of the tolerance for immigrants that America prides itself on would evaporate pretty rapidly in the case of a severe recession here too. But I’d like to return to another, not unrelated point, [...]

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