Europe will have hard time dealing with diversity. Unlike US, Europe did not test the relationships with its many minorities in the times of crisis. Europe did not accept its Moslem immigrants. In Germany, issues of Turkish immigrants became a problem long time ago. Immigrants from Africa in France encountred the same problem. The liberal Netherlands produced some of the most virulent form of anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe. And the modern and supposedly secular Denmark did not see anything odd in trashing the religious feelings of Moslems. In spite of all the problems and brutal civil war, Balkans is still the only place in Europe where Moslems and Christians live side by side, as they had for hundreds of years before. While the going was good, Jews were not the target. Now that Europe is threatened with financial instability, all the old prejudices are back. It really makes me wonder about the meaning of being European. In spite of the effort by the European Union to promote the human rights, deep roots of intolerance remain. One of the reasons was the utter cinicism of the efforts to focus on human rights. It seemed that Europe was more intent on using the human rights agenda as a way of political posturing and using it as a bat against China, Russia and its chopped up Balkans region. There, voices of indignation were loud and pure: improve your human rights or else. Any signs of attack on human rights and religous orientation were viewed as an outright failure of the government and its leaders, and the reason for sanctions of all kinds. But what lacked was an honest assessment of their own societies to accept differences and to accept that not all citizens are going to "assimilate" into the dominant culture or religion. The question remains if Europe will stand up for human rights now, or will it allow the populists to exploit the irrational hatred of "otherness".