Integration and respect for other cultures: where does Tolerance fit in?

We all know about the personal tragedies immigration causes. Some of us because we've suffered them, others because we've been told about them, or because we have seen others suffer them. Immigrant is he or she who must change his or her origin country in search for work or because the living conditions have become impossible to bear. It is this the case of the political refugees, but also that of people whose birth place does not give them a decent job. This happened in Spain in the sixties. It is said that two and a half million Spaniards wento into the labour markets in England, France, Switzerland, Italy, but above all in Germany. All of those who could, came back as soon as possible. Some others sought integration into their host countries and so they or their descendants are still in those countries. I can remember a story from an immigrant in Germany: once a friend of his shot a bird down, as he was a hunter by hobby. He was expelled from the country three days later, with no hesitation. I can't remember the legal support for that action very well, but I won't judge it: the immigrant was in another country where there was another culture, and if he could not respect it, he was expelled. As simple as that. When I, myself, was an immigrant in Britain, I heard more than once the sentence if you don't like it, go to your own country. It is true that if many Spaniards were in the same place, we talked Spanish, but I did not like that, since it was not nice to the English people who were there, who happened to be in their own country. Now we can see a lot of intolerance against the culture and law of the country which host immigrants. This morning I heard on the radio comment a murder by a person from a country from the East of Europe, who invaded a private home, murdered a whole family, and took away the savings of one of the little girls, as there was no other money in the house. This murderer, tried a few years ago, according to the old law, that made by the Popular Party, would be entitled to have the Spanish citizenship, because he can prove he has been in Spain for the necessary years. But according to the new law, he is already entitled to be Spanish, because he can prove by the jail sentence itself, that in the moment of the crime he was already in Spain. If he hadn't commited a murder, he would have probably expelled from the country months ago because he had not his papers in order... And this makes us think that our tolerance cannot take us to the point of giving our lives so that ousiders remain in our country. What would have happened to that other immigrant in Germany, if he had killed a whole family instead of a simple bird? Being civilised, to my knowledge, is not tolerate everything, since if the Spaniard of the bird could do everything the Germans do, but not what he would do at home, in a culture which is foreign to the Germans. This, the civilised thing is integrate in our own culture everybody who comes from abroad. Spaniards living in Germany never thought of organising bull fights in Kolhn or Bonn. Why that flowering of mosques in our country? Thus, the limit of tolernace, which in theory should go beyond that of the other people, cannot make an exagerated filoxeny take us to unbearable, absurd situations which can imply the resign of our culture, riches or lives.