´Communities´ is part of the problem
There shouldn´t be communities. Only the community.
I agree with the rest, indeed.
It should be, but how can we all be part of the community, when some of us are not accepted as part of the community?
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Well, you could argue incompatible, not accepted, whatever your viewpoint
My point was only really that that is the issue fundamentally. We´re a country of communities, not a community.
What is wrong with communities? If we all try to understand each other and help each other, we can get along if we try, we all can’t be homogenous.
Incompatibility seems to me are we the wrong skin tone and or wrong religion ?
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Not sure what you mean but this could easily be misconstrued as only a certain community is allowed. I certainly hope you mean that different people should come together to find commonalities as one community despite the different races, color, religion, background and culture.
And as far as assimilating newcomers into a country, my own experience is it takes a combination of the efforts of myself to welcome them and be patient with helping them what is Singaporean culture, the new migrant willingness to step out of their own comfort zone and not only staying within their “own enclave” and learning and interacting and a third element which probably the people in the West is very averse to, government intervention and policies.
Only when we can have a common objective despite being different, can we all live in harmony.
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I’d beg to differ. During the slum clearances of the 1950s and 60s, people were moved, often to newtowns and new estates within the same cities, but often not along with their existing neighbours.
This caused social problems as their communities were broken up. Communities change over time as people are born or die, incomers/outgoers etc, but a relatively stable local community is a good thing.
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Sorry, but for feedback, why are your posts becoming more and more condescending? And additionally what are you on about? If you are gonna pull me up on something then please quote my post so I know what your point is relating to.
In regards to the School protests in France and Housing protests in Spain, please cite where I have blamed it on immigrants/immigration?
I personally feel that your post exposes your own hypocrisy. Could it be that you are the one guilty of twisting the narrative? You tell me….
Maria, you make good points as does @Liverdinner.
I can only speak from my own experiences. For what ever reason we still live in communities and incompatibility can still be down to the wrong skin tone and or wrong religion. But this is not solely a White British/christianity owned problem.
Unfortunately, society struggles to listen/take on board other people’s views and until we do, Communities becoming a Community is not going to happen any time soon.
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Did you even read any of the context of what you originally replied to?
I think ideally, Communities should make up a Community. This is where people are willing to accept and embrace each others.
As you say people should come and go and ideally 1st generation immigrants and local natives (sorry for my crude description) should now (3rd generation) become more accepting of each other.
I look at my own social circle and also the make up of the people when I attend friends parties and it is very diverse and open. There are the odd stereotypical comments made in jest from all parties but it is in my opinion all in good faith.
For example, one of my mates does an impersonation of my GF telling me off in a deep African accent and she loves it, Infact, she jumps in on it and tells me off for things she has already told me off for before 
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Nb. I think in my tiredness I have lost the context of the post I was replying too, so please take my post as a passive observation 
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Sorry, I genuinely say this without trying to be rude. Can we start this discussion from the start please.
Apparently, I made a comment about the education protests in France, which twisted the true nature of the protests to bring about immigration.
If so can you please quote this for “Context”. Once I have this information, I will be in a better position to answer your latest question in a diplomatic manner.
If you can’t do this then sadly I will have to revert to my original stance of “what are you on about?”.
By their own nature they mark people as separate and not together with others.
How can you have the kind of integration people talk about when you have lots of communities segregated by the very nature that they operate as a distinct community.?
But you’re agreeing with what I said
One stable local community. That’s the point I was making.
Could be that a certain community is allowed or wanted. Depends on the country and host people.
But ultimately my point was that one way or another, society does better with one unified community. You can have your own opinions on how that unification happens or if it´s even possible but people fitting together rather than as isolated (not geographically) separate communities.
Obviously it will be localised as you cant have one national community exactly, so you do end up with lots of local communities in practice but those local communities need to be united.
From my own experiences as an immigrant, of course it´s nice to be welcome but it behooves me to integrate into their community. They have no obligations to me.
No.
You literally jumped in on a discussion that had nothing to do with you, quoted things out of context, and now you’re expecting me to do the work for you?
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Where do you lives? Maybe outside Germany?
I am glad that Germany is a Member State of the European Union. Germany needs the EU, and the EU, in turn, also needs Germany.
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Could do with the UK as well 
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Yeah in Spain