{"id":6781,"date":"2017-05-19T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6781"},"modified":"2017-05-30T21:39:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T20:39:37","slug":"should-migrants-integrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2017\/05\/19\/should-migrants-integrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Should Migrants Integrate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2017\/05\/19\/should-migrants-integrate\/germany-leitkultur\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6782\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6782\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/germany-leitkultur.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/germany-leitkultur.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/germany-leitkultur-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A task force created to promote the integration of migrants into German society has published a list of the core features of German culture.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germany: Should Migrants Integrate?<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10382\/germany-migrants-integration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | May 19, 2017<\/p>\n<p>A government task force created to promote the integration of migrants into German society has published a list of the core features of German culture.<\/p>\n<p>The list studiously omits politically incorrect terms such as \u201cpatriotism\u201d and \u201cleading culture\u201d (<em>Leitkultur<\/em>), and effectively reduces German traditions and values to the lowest common denominator. The task force, in fact, implicitly establishes multiculturalism as the most complete expression of German culture.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/kulturelle-integration.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cultural Integration Initiative<\/a> (<em>Initiative kulturelle Integration<\/em>) was created by the German government in December 2016 to promote \u201csocial cohesion\u201d after Chancellor Angela Merkel opened German borders to more than a million migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The task force \u2014 led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturrat.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German Cultural Council<\/a> (<em>Deutscher Kulturrat<\/em>) in close cooperation with the German Interior Ministry and two dozen media, religious and other interest groups \u2014 was charged with reaching a consensus on what constitutes German culture. The original aim was to facilitate \u201ccultural integration\u201d by encouraging migrants to assimilate to a shared set of cultural values.<\/p>\n<p>After five months of deliberation, the task force on May 16 presented a list of what it considers to be the top 15 <a href=\"http:\/\/kulturelle-integration.de\/thesen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">guiding principles<\/a> of German culture. Encapsulated in the catchphrase \u201cCohesion in Diversity,\u201d the list consists of mostly generic ideas about German culture \u2014 gender equality, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, pluralism and democracy \u2014 that are not at all unique to Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10382\/germany-migrants-integration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A task force created to promote the integration of migrants into German society has published a list of the core features of German culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[133,179,181,195],"class_list":["post-6781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-cultural-integration","tag-germany","tag-islam-in-europe","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany: Should Migrants Integrate? 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