Monday, January 29, 2007

The Joys of Multiculturalism

 
 
For a number of years now, it has been apparent that 'multiculturalism', like most policies that do not take reality into account, simply does not work. If any further proof of this was needed, a new survey published by Policy Exchange has shown that young Muslims are even less integrated than their parents and are actually becoming increasingly hostile to the civilization that has welcomed them in its midst.
The basic premise of multiculturalism is that cultures, if allowed to live separately within the same society, will necessarily respect each other. Unfortunately, this depends on cultures concerned. If they happen to be very tolerant then it may just work. If one of them happens not to be then it won't. Moreover, the heroic attempt at getting whole cultures accepted into a host society means that the individuals concerned can only be accepted if the whole experiment works. If it fails, as it almost always does, then these individuals have to pay the price too, in terms of remaining strangers in their adoptive country. The almost inevitable result of this trauma is political extremism - sometimes fascism - particularly when this is easily available as a component of the culture of the countries of origin.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It is so insulting for a host country to have a group of immigrants from a different culture form their own isolated haven, refuse to integrate and then rebel.

Immigrants today are very arrogant. People love to twist what democracy and open societies represent. As a foreigner, one has to respect the host country and try to integrate as much as possible. The end of positive immigration is over and a new dangerous era looms. I am an immigrant but I don't go around New York and ask for bagels in Serbian! The least I can do is ask in English.

2:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Multiculturalism is a definite improvement on this.

5:35 PM  
Blogger Pietru Caxaru said...

I guess almost anything would be an improvement on Khomeini :) Still Bakhtiar's 'over-optimism' does remind me of the attitude that most of his counterparts in today's West have adopted.

6:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This chaps’ optimism rather brimmed over this week…

9:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There are some very interesting parallels to be found between 'all cultures are equal' and George Orwell's "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". The notion of 'equality' within 'multiculturalism' has become the 'Newspeak' of today's politicians.
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/ctc/docs/anfm1984.htm

12:08 PM  
Blogger Pietru Caxaru said...

Thanks for the interesting link (and comment)

6:30 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home

frontpage hit counter