who the really wanted a muliticutral country?
2007-07-13 11:34:57 · 12 answers · asked by dave c 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
this is not a recuiting drive for the BNP.
2007-07-13 11:42:50 · update #1
Ummm...This was always a multicultural country. There were 500 nations here before the pilgrims landed, that's pretty darned multicultural. The pilgrims brought slaves, who had their own culture. Then immigration started in earnest, making even more diversity. We've never been a monoculture, although some would like to see that be the norm. Wouldn't things be boring then, though? I sure think so!
Whoops-sorry, didn't realise you were a Brit. But a monocultural Britain would be boring, too.
2007-07-13 11:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by gilliegrrrl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I want a different multitude of races and cultural influences around me. I do *not* want to have to live in an environment that makes me feel as if I'm in a different country, unless it's a restaurant and I can go back home to my American neighborhood (whatever race or heritage my neighbors are)after dinner.
Exactly to the poster above me. And it seems since "nonwhite" people insist on bringing their cultures with them to their new countries and making their neighborhoods look just like their old countries, they don't like multiculturalism either. The difference is -- they could have stayed in their old country and lived within that culture.
I apologize as well. I didn't realize this was aimed at British posters.
2007-07-13 18:53:43 · answer #2 · answered by tttplttttt 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who actually cares? One dope is as good as another. I actually hate bigots so I'd rather live among foreign people as long as they don't keep banging on about race all the time as if it accords them any special status except that in the mind. If someone wants to go to a Mosque instead of a Church or a synagogue, let them do so. It would be weird if we all drove the same type of car and ate the same type of food and looked alike, wont it.
Multiculturalism is a label as any other such label that when scrutinised, it does nor really mean anything at all. Like all labels, the test is if it needs a label then there is nothing special about it because it does not speak for itself.
Take the Druids that hunt Stonehenge. Are they doing what you are doing? No. Why not is what you are really asking. It is not sufficient to say that they work with us and they then go to Stonehenge at night with special clothing and candles and such. They are not the same as us anymore are they? Please!
2007-07-13 22:46:17 · answer #3 · answered by K. Marx iii 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I can't imagine walking through Brixton market and not seeing all that West Indian food and hearing music from Blacker Dread's.
Multiculturalism isn't a problem. The problem is "white flight" and voluntary segregation keeping people apart. Blackburn is a prime example. The town is split in two, and not only do asians not come to white areas, but whites don't go to asian areas, and people leaving the area compounds the problem. Then you end up with white schools and asian schools. It is a voluntary apartheid.
2007-07-13 20:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by undercover elephant 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lots of us.
Many people value cultural diversity. Especially those of us who don't fall into the mainstream cookie-cutter default culture that many people consider "normal".
So, for a lot of people -- including the Founders of this country -- diversity and tolerance are more than just a good idea, they are the reason this country exists in the first place.
2007-07-13 18:56:41 · answer #5 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Me. I do. Look around you and imagine what a monoculture would be like.
Only English music (folk!) and dance (morris), English food only in every shop or restaurant and an even more paranoid fear of foreigners than you already seem to have. Clothes by English designers only, and only English designed cars. Sounds idyllic.
Don't get me wrong - I love this country. But one of the things I love the most is our ability to assimilate people and ideas from other cultures. I'm not less of an Englishman, if I happen to like African music and Chinese food!
Why are you so scared of anyone a tiny bit different to you?
2007-07-13 18:44:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
like they care,wake up a few hundred thousand immigrants keeps the country going to make the rich , richer they don't have to live with these people so ,no they wont care.as long as there industries,factories are kept going that's all that matters.
2007-07-13 18:59:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How ironic....
You ask a question about multiculturalism in BRITAIN, and the first response is from an AMERICAN
lol
Multiculturalism is a good thing to an extent - otherwise we'd all be holidaying in margate, eating pie and baked beans, watching crap football etc etc
As to whether it's gone to far.... when you feel like a foreigner in certain cities in the UK (I don't mean because of the colour of peoples skin, I mean they are actually foreign) it can be a bit strange...
2007-07-13 18:46:56 · answer #8 · answered by Mr_Digger 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Nothing wrong with a multi-cultural society.
And done right, it could be just great.
The best cities in North America are melting pots
The stagnant cities have (mostly) one culture in the city itself and another on the outside edges.
2007-07-13 18:45:31 · answer #9 · answered by Robert K 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Countries have always been multicultural.
Look at ancient Rome for example - people from everywhere.
2007-07-13 18:38:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋