sources for context

Question 1

source for coining of “Leitkultur” term

Answer 1

Bassam Tibi
Europa ohne Identität? Leitkultur oder Wertebeliebigkeit
2001

Question 2

what does Tibi believe about integration?

Answer 2

“any community needs a consensus on values and an identity”
- if a multicultural society cannot develop shared values, integration cannot happen.
-if people continue to see the assimilation of other’s culture into their own as an attack on their country’s history, culture war will never end- me

Question 3

what does leitkultur refer to?

Answer 3

-core culture belonging to a country, national culture
-have leitkultur and heimat become synonymous?
-is leitkultur stagnant? or ever changing?- me

Question 4

what is the problem with integration?

Answer 4

-with the belief that to become integrated, people must be willing to adopt german culture
- people fear that culture is “lost” with immigration, hypocritical argument. you expect others to lose their culture and have yours imposed on them for fear of losing your own? or that their culture might be imposed on you? comes from a belief that your culture is superior to theirs.