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Eugene

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Sat Apr 20, 2019, 10:32 PM Apr 2019

Tony Blair: migrants should be forced to integrate more to combat far right

Source: The Observer

Tony Blair: migrants should be forced to integrate more to combat far right

Former PM claims that ‘failure’ of multiculturalism has led to rise in bigotry

Michael Savage Policy Editor
Sat 20 Apr 2019 17.30 BST Last modified on Sat 20 Apr 2019 17.32 BST

Migrant communities must be compelled to do more to integrate to help combat the rise of “far-right bigotry”, Tony Blair has warned.

The former prime minister said that successive governments had “failed to find the right balance between diversity and integration”, while the concept of multiculturalism has been misused as a way to justify a “refusal to integrate”.

Blair makes the pointed intervention in a report by his Institute for Global Change, which backs forcing schools to have an intake that reflects local diversity, creating a compulsory citizenship programme for teenagers and toughening enforcement against the perpetrators of hate speech.

It also calls for compulsory citizenship education, a ban on segregated shift patterns and the creation of a new cabinet post created to oversee integration.

“Over a significant period of time, including when we were last in government, politics has failed to find the right balance between diversity and integration,” Blair writes in a foreword to the report. “On the one hand, failures around integration have led to attacks on diversity and are partly responsible for a reaction against migration. On the other hand, the word multiculturalism has been misinterpreted as meaning a justified refusal to integrate, when it should never have meant that.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/20/tony-blair-says-migrants-must-integrate-to-combat-far-right
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Tony Blair: migrants should be forced to integrate more to combat far right (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2019 OP
I agree that if you 'choose' to move into angstlessk Apr 2019 #1
But you and Mr Blair are assuming NewDayOranges Apr 2019 #2
It seems the anti immigrants have a community angstlessk Apr 2019 #3

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
1. I agree that if you 'choose' to move into
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 10:43 PM
Apr 2019

a country, or if they offer you amnesty, you should adopt the mores of that country.

Otherwise you are attempting to recreate the country you escaped.

NewDayOranges

(691 posts)
2. But you and Mr Blair are assuming
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 11:06 PM
Apr 2019

that the new community will welcome the newbies. Some communities are more resistant to those attempting to assimilate than others...

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
3. It seems the anti immigrants have a community
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 11:14 PM
Apr 2019

why not a greeting community, teaching english AND the way to assimilate, since it ain't innate..

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