EU refugee crisis

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    I fail to see how 'assimilation' is a fucked up word, in this context.

    Put another way: you and your woman decide to move to a Muslim country. You get a flat in an expat compound, persist in eating bacon and drinking, and your woman doesn't cover up local stylee. Would you now consider yourself having fit in with your host culture?

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    • And you've also haven't learned the local language, and don't plan to. How do you reckon the locals would take to that?Continuity
    • You are trying to argue that Europe should be as intolerant as places like Saudi Arabia or Sudan. Fuck that.lowimpakt
    • I'm trying to argue that every country has a right to defend its native culture.Continuity
    • And there aren't thousands of British people living in Spain or France without being able to have a conversation in Spanish or French?lowimpakt
    • Correct, and as far as I'm concerned, they've no business being there without making some effort to integrate.Continuity
    • im sure there are plenty of fish n chips places in France. dont worry.yurimon
    • Great post continuity.mg33
    • Continuity, can you give me a precise description of the culture you want to defend?lowimpakt
    • The culture that grew up over hundreds — if not thousands of years — shaped by ancient migrations, wars, invasions, self-discovery, arts, literature,Continuity
    • ... ways of life, language, long periods of peace, and homogeny.Continuity
    • what country specifically, where were you born and where do you live now?lowimpakt
    • The long and the short of is that Muslim countries have their own culture, and they're more than welcome to it. It's theirs, and I (nor anyone else) has anyContinuity
    • ... right to go to their country and re-shape their culture. And the same applies to Western countries. If place like Scandinavia, France, Slovakia et al wantContinuity
    • ... to preserve their native cultures, who are you to tell them they can't, exactly?Continuity
    • I was born in Canada, and currently live in Germany.Continuity
    • well saidPonyBoy
    • I agree. You go to someone's house you respect their rules. My house, my rules or fuck off.set
    • Not that I exactly have rules at my house. Don't set fire to the sofa, no shitting on the carpet I guess.set
    • No declaring sharia law at set's house.set
    • It's not. Only those that want to control language promote political correctnessHayoth
    • ^ true, biggest mental poison.yurimon
    • it's a credit to you that you prepared so well before fleeing the horrors of Canada.Fax_Benson
    • Stephen Harper is worth fleeing from.Continuity
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