Ever since the election of Barack Obama as American president, Europeans have been frantically seeking to disprove the theory that a comparable minority success story is unthinkable in the old world. Germany's Green Party has just elected a new co-leader of Turkish origin, Cem Ozdemir. France likes to point to three government ministers of Muslim origin, including Rachida Dati in charge of justice. Yet the French parliament has just one non-white deputy from the mainland. And business is not much more enlightened, with most of the top managerial jobs still going to the old technocratic elite.
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