
How a German Youth Club Tried and Failed to Integrate Migrants
The pro-Left Leipzig club and youth center Conne Island has published a statement detailing the problems it encountered when trying to integrate migrants through participation in the club’s social events.
Last year the Leipzig-based club decided to encourage refugees into the club only to see an increase in groups of migrants who caused trouble by stealing, brawling and sexually assaulting women.
The club’s security tried to deal with the problem but to no avail. On numerous occasions the managers were forced to call the police, because “the level of physical violence against security personnel was no longer manageable.” To encourage migrants to visit the club the management organized German lessons and a number of skateboard and bike workshops. It also allowed the refugees to visit the club for just €0.50 each.
“To party together and in the process, to achieve the integration of young refugees into Conne Island, turned out to be a naive plan. […] The authoritarian and patriarchal socialization in the home countries of some refugees and liberal western (party) culture sometimes makes for an explosive mixture,” the statement said.
“Someone finally dared to speak up about what club organizers have been whispering about during their ‘crisis meetings.’ Unfortunately, they have yet to come up with any effective means of dealing with this problem. This subject has never been openly discussed, partly due to a misinterpreted sense of political correctness, partly because they were afraid to be labeled as rightwing radicals,” someone wrote on Facebook.
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