I don't understand how you can state that the step of discussing integration problems would be unthinkable in the U.S. when it is discussed ad-nauseum here and has been for years. Most states in the U.S. have bent over backward to make the integration process easy and acceptable and I feel it has been more of a negative impact for our country as a whole than if they were left to their own devices. Harsh, I know, but our country has a habit of handing things out on a silver platter to a small percentage of its citizens and then being surprised when they no longer have any ambition or drive to succeed on their own afterwards.


>Tracy,
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>>No discrimination problems in Europe? It is still ocurring today:
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>>http://academic.udayton.edu/Race/06hrights/GeoRegions/Europe/EU01.htm
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>>In Europe, we could not find one top company with a minority CEO, and few with even one minority officer at any senior level. There’s a pretend colorblindness in Europe today." says Dr. John Wrench of the Danish Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies. " In Britain, Government statistics show that 18- to 24-year-old Asians and blacks are overrepresented in higher education, yet are less likely than whites to find jobs directly after graduation.
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>>Thhis was of course before the 2003 EU law.
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>After reading the article a second time, I found it to have a polarizing content, that is aiming to draw the conclusion of discrimination. It is almost like there was a conclusion and sought the facts to it rather than work bottom-up. The article iself already states explanations from the large corporations but quickly dismisses them all too easy for my taste, without any convincing argument.
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>I'm not sure about the political movement they exactly point out to, but what has changed up here (with Pim fortuyn) a couple of years ago is that we cannot ignore difficulties we have with some minorities because of beeing afraid to be acused of discrimination. We are prepared to say that there are difficulties with groups of marrocans and antillian youth and the proportion of them beeing criminal active. So there is a tendency not to silently ignore integration problems, but rather discuss them. How this relates to the article, I'm not sure, because the step we take up here probably is unthinkable in the US, but is certainly something we think is neccesary to address integration problems...
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>Walter,