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When we hear the word "multiculturalism," some imagine people of all races and creeds holding hands, others imagine a clash of disparate cultures that cannot co-exist. There are many more nuanced definitions in between.
In the world of mainstream politics, there is now widespread acknowledgment that the failure of immigrants to properly integrate into the culture of their host nations is causing a lot more harm that good. The backlash against multiculturalism has begun to manifest itself as a rise of nationalist parties such as England's UKIP and France's National Front gaining more support from disillusioned countrymen.
In 2010 German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that,
" This [multicultural] approach has failed, utterly failed," Merkel told the meeting in Potsdam, west of Berlin, yesterday. "
Merkel also suggested that the onus was on immigrants to do more to integrate into German society, and late last year the European Court of Justice ruled that EU citizens who move to another member state "solely in order to obtain social assistance" may be excluded from receiving that assistance, an acknowledgement that multiculturalism's side effects are causing more harm than good.
Those interested in this topic should read Foreign Affairs' excellent article The Failure of Multiculturalism.
As a political tool, multiculturalism has functioned as not merely a response to diversity but also a means of constraining it. And that insight reveals a paradox. Multicultural policies accept as a given that societies are diverse, yet they implicitly assume that such diversity ends at the edges of minority communities. They seek to institutionalize diversity by putting people into ethnic and cultural boxes—into a singular, homogeneous Muslim community, for example—and defining their needs and rights accordingly. Such policies, in other words, have helped create the very divisions they were meant to manage.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 24 2015, @06:26PM
Oh my, Hairy. You've stepped in it now. No one EVER wins one of these arguments when they point out obvious truths. Stand by to be blasted from all sides!
“Take me to the Brig. I want to see the “real Marines”. – Major General Chesty Puller, USMC
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @07:05PM
> Stand by to be blasted from all sides!
And you've hit on the most obvious truth of the post...
All hairy wants is to be the center of a bukake circle.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Sunday May 24 2015, @07:28PM
Let 'em. I am a socialist leftie from the 70s, when we actually believed in judging people by the content of their character and not by some Oppression Olympics [wikia.com]. We believed in actually looking at problems and trying to SOLVE those problems, not make excuses. this is why I have to LMAO at those that claim they are championing "justice" for minorities as their group has become so hate filled and fucking racist there is actually a game called SJW or Stormfront [youtube.com] because their writings are so filled with venom its hard to tell the difference between their posts and those from white supremacist websites.
We've been pretending the culture isn't an issue for damned near 40 years...has things gotten any better? Has the violence gone down? Number of children raised without fathers gone down? When you have Jessie Jackson saying he's more afraid of running into black teens than whites at night? [theracecardproject.com] I'm sorry but your culture is fucked up!
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @08:01PM
> We've been pretending the culture isn't an issue for damned near 40 years...has things gotten any better? Has the violence gone down?
Yes. Dramatically. A nearly two-thirds reduction. [wikipedia.org] Today's black violent crime rate is even one third less than the white violent crime rate of the 70s.
Will that change your mind about anything? I'm guessing, no it won't. I bet you just keep right on believing that black people are just as violent as ever. You'll ignore this inconvenient fact and stick to your imaginary world. That is the definition of bigotry, after all -- an obstinate or intolerant devotion to his or her own opinions and prejudices; [merriam-webster.com]
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Monday May 25 2015, @12:41AM
You may want to take unleaded fuel into that equation as well though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2015, @03:42AM
I bet you just keep right on believing that black people are just as violent as ever
It's kind of beside the point, isn't it? So long as they remain several times more likely to be violent criminals than anyone else you should happen to run into, keeping them away from your home and family makes sense.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2015, @09:12AM
So long as they remain several times more likely to be violent criminals than anyone else you should happen to run into, keeping them away from your home and family makes sense.
You're talking about Texans, here?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26 2015, @07:47PM
unfortunately, Texans aren't as easily ferreted out with a quick glance. if we could just cure the white skin pigment disease then the world would be nothing but kittens, puppies, and daffodils.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2015, @07:46AM
{Secret ComaPodensis task force directive} Mod this and the parent up! Hairyfeet is a valued member of the team!