Multiculturalism is dead!

With this cry, Angela Merkel launches the point of a great debate. Has the attempt to build a multicultural society failed?
One of the challenges for nation-states has always been how to manage cultural diversity when building a single political community. That’s why we’ve always had problems in Spain and France. Three models have prevailed in Europe to meet this challenge: segregation, in Germany (immigrants come only to work, not to be our own nationals); integration, in France (we need French immigrants to become our own nationals); multiculturalism, in the United Kingdom (building the political nation on different cultures).

I am convinced that what has failed is not the politics of multiculturalism, but the very nature of the national state. In particular, the intention to equalize the political and cultural community. Multiculturalism as a social phenomenon is a phenomenon that, in addition to the existing reality, is now inextricably linked to globalization. And that is what the communities that want to develop as a people will have to live with.

For the Basques, the debate is inevitable.