"Nobody today research does support the idea that it is unnecessary to learn the language in which you will live. If the government grow in this environment, they also promote integration. As to whether to jump to the obligation is a matter of political choice. As a citizen, I think it can have adverse effects and perverse , "said Marco Martiniello in an interview with journalist Martin Pascal Space Freedoms (the magazine of the Centre for Secular Action). What kind of harm and evil? Impossible to know but the teacher at ULg apparent spectrum of assimilation to warn us against " a conservative view of society " European. " The message is to tell newcomers that they can aspire to rights provided that they meet first homework: learning the language, law enforcement, adoption of the dominant cultural models. It is interesting to the researcher found that when you put the homework before the rights, it is in the conservative camp ", explains researcher knowing noted regardless of political preferences. He added that "positive discrimination sometimes part of an assimilationist logic . There are several approaches, but we can say clearly that everything that is related to respect for cultural diversity, multiculturalism or interculturalism has suffered greatly from what is happening in the world since September 11, 2001. The Netherlands had already begun a turnaround before that date. After the Fortuyn and Van Gogh business, they have completely revised their policy by saying that they would make plsu multiculturalism but of assimilation, emphasizing respect for the Dutch culture, learning the language, etc. . "
No need to be director CEDEM to see that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have affected the cultural diversity of our societies, but where I do not share the opinion of any teacher Liege is about using the argument " assimilationist." I often hear the same argument in discussions within the Turkish community where some fans Belgians, still not knowing to speak French or Flemish, after more than 30 years of residence, defend with passion the same argument in the Turkish language ( "Bizi asimile edecekler " for "they will assimilate us"). Something to be fascinated by the degree of assimilation (political and linguistic) that they appear to society ... Turkish while living mainly in Belgium. Forcing someone to learn the language of the country where he intends to live the rest of his life is, in my opinion, neither conservative nor assimilationist. On the contrary help people live better in society to begin a real dialogue Multicultural using a common language shared.
Read : Immigration and Integration in francophone Belgium. State knowledge, edited by Marco Martiniello, Andrea Rea and Felice Dassetto, Editions Academia Bruylant.
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