What is multiculturalism How are we deceived by anti multiculturalists 378

The way you support your claim to engage in practises that can't co-exist with practises of others though is to talk about your rights in a mutlicultural society.

You start to talk about freedom of expression of my culture and my religion.

You do this because there is message that reinforces the validity of expression of culture as paramount.

Once the message was that you had better leave all that behind and buttimilate.

In that time your angle would have been about how your practise fits in with the local ideas and what great ideas the local ideas are.

Intuitively anything thats breaks down distinction for me seems a better way to go.

Finally culture is too close to ethnicity which is too close to race. And race you can't shift. You are stuck with it. So people get stereotyped and targeted based on something they cannot denounce.

So I don't want you to mis-understand me.

It's not about not liking a mixture around the joint. I just don't think we should enable people to be stamped for life as being one thing or the other, and I think multi-culturalism, or the message that elevates it t centre stage rather makes it an also ran, does that.

And secondly, I think encouraging people to segregate based on difference is the wrong way to go. At the end of the day differences will confront. And I think an idea that you must give way to the main stream keeps everyone more concerned about the common mainstream than their own individual section.

Yes it is. It's the kind of message we need to ramp a bit for a while.

It takes a while for these things to build up a head of steam though.

Look please don't mis-understand me. I'm not here becuase I don't people who are different. I had a vietnamese meal last night. I work with ... well you know the drill.

I'm here because history shows us what ethnic tension can deliver.

And I understand there is an argument that says ramping multi-culturalism is about reducing that tension.

It's something for the reasons I have expressed that I disagree with. Ironic - yes - but factual I believe.

I agree with everything you say here.