"German multicultural society has failed" - Merkel

[joea]

Might as well make my first political post after a long absence a hot topic.

The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel: "lmmigrants should learn to speak German"
Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have "utterly failed", Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
She said the so-called "multikulti" concept - where people would "live side-by-side" happily - did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate - including learning German.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11559451

I say good for her, I support immigration and like learning about different culutres but the pendulum has gone too far to accepting everything. My folks were all for integrating and both speak fluent English and French (as they emigrated to Quebec before moving out to the West Coast). I speak pretty good French living here even though I am not Swiss and have picked up a bit of German as well. Most of all, while every society has some diversity of customs there has to be common principles that everyone abides by.