2010 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy has...

2010 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy has attracted praise from all over the world. Time magazine and the Financial Times newspaper recently named her Person of the Year, and delegates applauded her for so long at her party's convention on Monday that she had to stop them.The speech that followed, however, may have surprised supporters of her policies: "Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a ‘life lie,’ ” or a sham, she said, before adding that Germany may be reaching its limits in terms of accepting more refugees. "The challenge is immense," she said. "We want and we will reduce the number of refugees noticeably." (and then in 2015 she openeed the borders -Doh!)

Since the late 1990s, multiculturalism is discussed, in newspapers more than in scientific discourses, as a public policy failure in West European nations. The Netherlands was one of the first to have declared multiculturalism ‘dead’.

The long-running “Danish cartoons” debate began in 2005 when the newspaper Jyllands-Posten published satirical drawings of Muhammad, leading to protests around the world. To outsiders, it may seem surprising that such a row began in Denmark, which many picture as a free-thinking oasis devoted to generous social-welfare schemes and religious, ethnic, sexual and countercultural tolerance. Yet Denmark experienced a particularly sharp and early version of Europe’s debate over multiculturalism and Islam. For years, even liberal Danish politicians have been calling multiculturalism a “failure”.

There are more declarations if you look for them.

You cannot have unity in a country if you promote diversity (read multiculturalism). Just look at the racially charged politics in the USA. We don't need it as there is no benefit to the Australian community to continue with it.