night since. How dare you intolerant Europeans not want to live like this! You must be racists! Surely the point is how tolerant most ordinary European people are in practice and how adaptable most immigrants are. People may grumble and rightly so, because most people dislike change, both in the host populations and immigrant communities (and I an not referring that 2nd or 3rd generation immigrants, they are citizens). Despite anomolies in the Alpine countries the thing to be celebrated is that on a day to day basis people just get on with their lives. The rise of racial prejudice in Europe is a direct result of the failure of the European left to sensibly confront Islamic radicalism or defend Western culture on any level. The European intellectual class has been derelict in it's duty, off on a self-defeating post-communist anti-American binge session, completely oblivious to the serious challanges that needed to be addressed. Addressed, that is, as something other than a convenient crop for wacking the dead horse of Marxist-Socialism in the hopes that it would get up again. Instead of dealing with the rise of Islamism as a serious threat, they have preferred to use at as one more plank in a long-running rant about imperialism and capitalist exploitation. Instead of honestly addressing the consequences of demographic change for European cultural identity, they would rather wallow in cultural relativism and false equivalencies. They're like some Shakespearian comic character, drowning 'in their cups', in some fetid tavern, issuing belligerent