It's tough to integrate when large elements of the society is racist. That's the problem with European societies, they need to fundamentally change or else we will continue to see more violence from Europe. It's inevitable.
If large segments of European societies were as inherently racist as you believe, then there wouldn't be massive amounts of non native Europeans living in Europe.
No, the problem is far more complex than that I think. The problem in my estimation is two pronged; the monolithic cultural foundation of European countries (which makes it inherently difficult for immigrants to integrate), combined with the actual reluctance of the immigrants to integrate in to their new Society.
Having lived in Europe myself (and traveled through many European countries), it's not hard to see the stark differences when compared to America.
America is far more culturally dynamic, because our culture isn't bound to our ethnicity like it is in Europe. This makes assimilation for immigrants
FAR easier to accomplish in America, as adversed to Europe.
American culture is so powerful, that it consumes/transforms any other culture that contends with it quite readily. In America, the children of immigrants are "turned" completely after one generation or two, and don't even speak the language of their parents and grand parents.
In Europe it's different. You have generations of immigrants that manage to avoid integration by living in closed neighborhoods which exist in parallel with the host Society. In these residential areas, the language and culture of the migrants endures and is not diminished or weakened over time with each passing generation, unlike in the U.S.
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