RE: Is multiculturalism a bad thing for Europe?
December 21, 2013 at 9:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2013 at 9:47 pm by Napoléon.)
I'm from Birmingham, which for those people who don't know, has a significant Muslim population. The vast majority of this population in my experience have no intention of integrating and basically, for lack of a better term, 'take over' the areas they move into. It will probably sound bad to some people, but frankly you know when you're in a "Muslim area". There'll be litter and bin bags in the streets, houses look run down like crack dens, more Honda's than you can count and a Mosque on every street corner. These places are shitholes and not somewhere you want to be walking in the middle of the night.
Don't take this as though I'm having a dig at Muslims, or that I'm stereotyping every Muslim that is in Birmingham, but for the most part it is like this and I'd say to anyone who disagrees to take a visit to Small Heath and tell me how wonderful multiculturalism is when they view it.
Conversely, I've lived in Derby for the past three years which genuinely has a mixture of people from lots of different cultures. None of them with their own 'areas'; they are just living together. I know people who are Muslims, people from India, Hong Kong, Estonia, Hungary, America, Brazil. No problems. But the difference, I think, is that no single culture, ethnicity or whatever has had a massive population boom and moved into one place together.
The thing that gets me, is you know immediately when you see a gang of Muslim lads or girls. They all hang around with each other, they all talk to each other, shake hands with each other, but very rarely do you see anyone from another ethnicity or culture with them. You could argue it's just personal experience and not everyone is like it, and yeah, not everyone is. There's two Muslim guys in my class who are the pair of nicest guys you'll ever meet. But even still, it is seriously noticeable how a large portion of Muslims seem to not want to integrate into the culture or country they are living in.
My 2 cents for what it's worth.
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Don't take this as though I'm having a dig at Muslims, or that I'm stereotyping every Muslim that is in Birmingham, but for the most part it is like this and I'd say to anyone who disagrees to take a visit to Small Heath and tell me how wonderful multiculturalism is when they view it.
Conversely, I've lived in Derby for the past three years which genuinely has a mixture of people from lots of different cultures. None of them with their own 'areas'; they are just living together. I know people who are Muslims, people from India, Hong Kong, Estonia, Hungary, America, Brazil. No problems. But the difference, I think, is that no single culture, ethnicity or whatever has had a massive population boom and moved into one place together.
The thing that gets me, is you know immediately when you see a gang of Muslim lads or girls. They all hang around with each other, they all talk to each other, shake hands with each other, but very rarely do you see anyone from another ethnicity or culture with them. You could argue it's just personal experience and not everyone is like it, and yeah, not everyone is. There's two Muslim guys in my class who are the pair of nicest guys you'll ever meet. But even still, it is seriously noticeable how a large portion of Muslims seem to not want to integrate into the culture or country they are living in.
My 2 cents for what it's worth.
*edited* for grammar
