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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe

✍ Scribed by Caldwell, Christopher

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2009
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 303 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no .

Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating the culture-shaping potential of religion, Europe has trapped itself in a problem to which it has no obvious solution.

Christopher Caldwell has been reporting on the politics and culture of Islam in Europe for more than a decade. His deeply researched and insightful new book reveals a paradox. Since World War II, mass immigration has been made possible by Europe's enforcement of secularism, tolerance, and equality. But when immigrants arrive, they are not required to adopt those values. And they are disinclined to, since they already have values of their own. Muslims dominate or nearly dominate important European...

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