Whats your views on multiculturalism?

Question

How do you feel about it? Is it gonna make the world a better place
when were all one race?

I for one think the UK is a tense place at the moment with so many
foreign nationals here.

Answer 1

I don't think we should become 'one race'. I like multiculturalism, but we should maintain our idividual identies, beliefs and cultures.
I can understand your feelings about the UK being a bit tense, I don't have a problem wtih 'foreign nationals' but I think for our society to work, we should embrace our own cultures, but also intergrate with the wider society. I also think that everyone should speak the native language of the country they reside in, as this would help someway with the feelings of mistrust that we have.

Answer 2

I live in the USA, where there is a separation of church and state, as long as people agree that religion CANNOT bleed over into government then multiculturalism is fine. Each country on earth has something to offer humanity. But absolutists and fundamentalists whether it's Christian, Jewish or any other religion is nothing but trouble and they are evil, because they don't allow for meeting someone 1/2 way, no God of any religion thinks it's okay for a whole group to be wiped out.

Answer 3

The UK has always been a multi national country from the early indigenous peoples the Picts and Celts to Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Vikings (Norsemen), Normans, Norwegians, Poles, Ukrainians, Indians, Pakistanis, etc. Sure there are at time racial tensions but these have always worked themselves out, but only with racial integration this is not happening at the present time, predominately with some cultures from the middle east and far east who prefer to live apart.

This can cause heated racial tension and should be avoided, to live in someone Else's country you must be of that country and no other and integrate yourself into into the wider community.

Answer 4

As a philosophy, multiculturalism began as part of the pragmatism movement at the end of the nineteenth century in Europe and in the United States, then as political and cultural pluralism at the turn of the twentieth. It was partly in response to a new wave of European imperialism in sub-Saharan Africa and the massive immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans to the United States and Latin America. Philosophers, psychologists and historians and early sociologists such as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, George Santayana, Horace Kallen, John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke developed concepts of cultural pluralism, from which emerged what we understand today as multiculturalism. In Pluralistic Universe (1909), William James espoused the idea of a "plural society." James saw pluralism as "crucial to the formation of philosophical and social humanism to help build a better, more egalitarian society. In the Western English-speaking countries, multiculturalism as an official national policy started in Canada in 1971, followed by Australia in 1973. It was quickly adopted as official policy by most member-states of the European Union. Recently, right-of-center governments in several European states—notably the Netherlands and Denmark— have reversed the national policy and returned to an official monoculturalism. A similar reversal is the subject of debate in the United Kingdom and Germany, among others, due to evidence of incipient segregation and anxieties over 'home-grown' terrorism.

Answer 5

It is a lie meant to break down once great cultures. They support minority culture while obliterating modern cultures. You will never shove a culture down a peoples' throats in one generation. That will always stir up trouble.

That having been said, I am not certain the proponents of 'multiculturalism' dont intend that.

Answer 6

I get the feeling you're concerned about this, as is so many other people, we are all afraid of losing our identity, this is what causes wars, it causes tension, misunderstanding, and unease. Opening the floodgates without a numerical ceiling, is causing a problem in the UK, people can only act on their own upbringing, their own culture, and if this causes suspicion amongst peoples, then it is down to the Government to listen to it's own people, those who voted them into power, not those that hide behind european law, and there will without doubt, never be one race, religion dictates that.

Answer 7

i think multiculturalism is a bad word because it immediately defines you as being different and you are therefore regarded and treated as different,instead of learning to live with the difference.we should use the word cosmopolitan -which can mean amongst other things ( a citizen of the world ).there will always be tensions,just look at children ,men and women,families as examples.i am afraid it is part of our genetic make up,and we have to learn to control it.

Answer 8

Multi culturalism is a grand and savory thing.
Each culture is like an exotic spice and adds it's own spicey taste to the cultural stew. Tasty! tasty!
Problem is, when TOO MUCH of any one spice is added to the cultural pot, the stew doesn't taste so good anymore.

Consider over salted food or remember the time you dropped the whole pepper container in the soup?
Balance in all things.
In the end, legal and balanced immigration is what will leave a good taste in all of our mouths and for all people involved.

Answer 9

It is a good thing! It is not about smothering other cultures or being white! One Scotland many cultures is great! I am Scottish my wife is German we have lots of different nationality friends, this is what true multiculturalism is about, learn more about each other and see!

Answer 10

I only have one, it doesn't, and never will, work. It is the spawn of the odious and unpatriotic left and there assorted sub-groupings. Eg, the PC brigade, feminists, and many others. I positively relish the conflict that is so richly deserved as feminists are forced to confront the role of females in the Islamist tradition. They have shared a mutual bandwagon for years, whilst it was covenient, and met with their mutual aspirations. Now they have to reckon with their differences.