„Multiculturalism is not just a recognition that different groups have different cultures. We all knew that, long before multiculturalism became a cult that has spawned mindless rhapsodies about »diversity«, without a speck of evidence to substantiate its supposed benefits.
In Germany, as in other countries in Europe, welcoming millions of foreign workers who insist on remaining foreign has created problems so obvious that only the intelligentsia could fail to see them. It takes a high IQ to evade the obvious.
»We kidded ourselves for a while,« Chancellor Merkel said, but now it was clear that the attempt to build a society where people of very different languages and cultures could »live side-by-side« and »enjoy each other« has »failed, utterly failed.«