Weeks of watching France's culturally enriched suburbs has sparked some discussion on multicultural society and how it ought to work. The failing states of Western Europe and their leaders are looking beyond their borders for answers and for models to follow. Obviously they themselves must be doing something wrong, because there is nothing to indicate, that multicultural society itself could be defunct? No, the answer is out there. What are we doing wrong, they ask themselves.

When race-riots were ravaging Birmingham last month (again), many Frenchmen said "no, no mon ami, you are doing it all wrong" and praised their own model 'of equality'. Ironically, soon after, the biggest riots France, and indeed Western Europe, have seen in decades broke out. First the streets of Paris were burning, then the streets of every major French town and then it spilled outside of France into neighbouring Belgium and Germany, to some extent. Now it was the turn of British politicians to praise their own model. Even the Swedish PM, Göran Persson, felt confident enough with the Swedish model to criticize the French government. "He said that the Liberal Party's warning that the same thing could also happen in Sweden was "unnecessary". Of course it could not happen in Sweden, even the Germans are looking at Sweden in awe. "The Rinkeby model" is a freshly coined term, and is being praised as the model for French and German suburbs. We all know about the safe, well-ordered and de-segregated suburbs of Sweden. We also know, that employment, the root cause for the rioting in France, is nearly non-existant among immigrants in Sweden. Or is it? So why could the riots not happen in Sweden? Or, in the not so distant future, in Finland?

Even Finland has been receiving praise from abroad, but perhaps that praise is more justified, as not counting the spree of muggings this autumn, things have remained calm in Finland, were around 2% of the population are immigrants. Perhaps Finland is different in some other way? The nations of Europe are desperate for solutions, desperate for answers for a problem that irresponsible immigration policies and utopian ideologies. disconnected from reality, have helped create. I say that the first step would be truly open discussion of all the factors, not merely the racism of us native Europeans.