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...They constituted a willing and indispensable Lumpenproletariat for Western Europe's postwar boom, ready to do work no one else wanted to do. Their large families, their mosques, their exotic costumes and customs were merely transitory inconveniences. One day they would vanish: the "migrants," the gastarbeiters, the travailleurs immigrés would simply go home. But they stayed, and a new generation grew to adulthood: dark-skinned youngsters sporting the accents of Provence, Bavaria or the Midlands. Willy-nilly, the societies of Western Europe had become multiracial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Rising Racism on the Continent | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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