Critics of the spreading practice of citizenship testing certainly think so; in fact, they go so far as to lament the rise of a new “repressive liberalism” – Western states’ efforts to achieve democratic and liberal ends with increasingly illiberal means. Making “integration courses” and language instruction compulsory, prohibiting headscarves in schools, as in France, or restricting the rights of immigrants to marry foreigners, as in Denmark, are just some instances of coercive measures adopted in the name of supposedly universal liberal values.
这无疑是批评入籍测试日益泛滥的人们的想法，实际上，这些人甚至为“镇压自由主义”风潮的崛起感到痛惜——西方国家试图用越来越有悖于自由的手段来实现民主和自由的目标。强制移民学习“文化融合课”和语言课，像法国那样禁止在学校里佩戴头巾，或者像丹麦那样限制移民与外国人结婚的权利只是以所谓的“普遍自由价值观”之名行强迫之实的几个例子。