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He didn't say that of course, but yes the suggestion was an example of how not to do integration. Who would integrate into a culture that immediately self-denies itself? Absolutely nobody and I think suggesting name changes are beyond secularism, it is just self-submission. This only displays that you don't have any values.

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Integration is not desirable though for most of the authorities involved. It threatens the existing power structures of such gated communities. It also risks creating a sense of universal worker solidarity that could lead to the resurgence of unions with actual teeth.

The whole white washing of their own cultural identity has little to do with secularism and has more to do with the ongoing war against community. The more atomised the individual is, the easier they are to sell product to and the less power they have to endanger the system.

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