Eye on the world: A spirit of brotherhood, not ‘otherness’

In “Germany’s humane rush to integrate refugeesThe Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board highlights the importance of integrating, not just accepting, Germany’s million-plus asylum seekers. The editorial reports progress on this front: “In a historic first, the country’s leading political parties agreed [recently] on an integration plan for legal newcomers.” The plan, which requires migrants to make individual efforts to assimilate but provides government assistance for them to do so, “... represents Germany’s steady progress toward a society defined more by its shared ideals than a singular ethnicity.”

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