Focuses on the importance of integrating immigrants into European society. Following several high profile events in which Europeans were forced to question their feelings about asylum-seekers, such as the assassination of Dutch political candidate Pym Fortuyn, the real issue is the immigrants, and their descendants, who are already inside. Integrate these, and European societies could cope well enough with the relatively few asylum-seekers. That demands changes of attitude in the host societies and among the newcomers. In many European countries it has not been achieved. Yet most of rich Europe is scrambling towards this ideal. Rightly so: social disunity could be a huge long-term threat to Europe, and, as the past two years have shown, harmony does not grow on trees. Count in their locally born descendants, and there may be 12-15 million poor-country "immigrants" inside the European Union: Turks and Kurds, Arabs, Asians (mostly from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), all manner of sub-Saharan Africans, Caribbeans, Latin Americans. Because natural assimilation has worked in the past, they have sat back to let it do its natural work again. Today's newcomers have come fast, and in far greater numbers. They are, literally, more visible to the eyes of native prejudice; and, the spirit of 2000 being far from that of 1900, they--and still more their children--are likelier to resent prejudice than to hunker down, hope not to be noticed and put up with it when they are.