http://www.williampfaff.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=57
"Bombs in the London Underground dealt a fatal blow to multiculturalism as a theory of society in West European countries with large Moslem immigrant populations. In Britain the government now proposes to set language skills, knowledge of the host society and its cultural assumptions, and signs of political allegiance as requisites to citizenship or permanent residence.
Before, these would have been considered 'racist' (a grotesque misnomer for criteria that concern political commitment and respect for cultural accommodation to the host society).
The previous laissez-faire practice with respect to admitted immigrants left an impression that in British society as a whole, perhaps influenced by class attitudes (or even by the caste segregation assumptions of imperialism), it was taken for granted that the new immigrants would find -- and stay in -- their 'place', and that it was not only unnecessary to try to assimilate them but unfeasible to do so."
