Multiculturalism - Merits & Debits. Part One
https://paulweston.substack.com/p/multiculturalism-merits-and-debits?publication_id=706429&post_id=196324773&isFreemail=true&r=1ccc1&triedRedirect=trueUntil very recently British politicians and journalists were forever
eulogizing the merits of a multicultural society. They told us how
enriching it was and why we should celebrate our vibrant diversity
hitherto unavailable in the racially stale and homogenous West. However,
despite these outpourings of praise verging on the messianic I have yet
to hear any of them elaborate on the concrete positives of
multiculturalism. Just one instance would suffice, but
multiculturalism’s adherents prefer to praise in the general rather than
the specific. As such they are just words with no meaning and no
intention of meaning, other perhaps than that of deliberate subterfuge.After
the July 2005 bombings of London’s transport system two lone voices
miraculously came to the fore to gently propose multiculturalism as
preached in the UK was more divisive than inclusive. Fortunately, these
voices belonged to non-white immigrants and were thus listened to and
reported on rather than shouted down with the inevitable charge of
racism. Trevor Philips, the Lenin-admiring Guyanese chairman of the
Commission for Racial Equality suggested we were sleepwalking toward
segregation, whilst Dr. John Sentamu, the Ugandan Archbishop of York,
alerted the native British to the dangers of losing their culture.
Multiculturalism - Merits & Debits. Part Onehttps://paulweston.substack.com/p/multiculturalism-merits-and-debits?publication_id=706429&post_id=196324773&isFreemail=true&r=1ccc1&triedRedirect=trueUntil very recently British politicians and journalists were forever
eulogizing the merits of a multicultural society. They told us how
enriching it was and why we should celebrate our vibrant diversity
hitherto unavailable in the racially stale and homogenous West. However,
despite these outpourings of praise verging on the messianic I have yet
to hear any of them elaborate on the concrete positives of
multiculturalism. Just one instance would suffice, but
multiculturalism’s adherents prefer to praise in the general rather than
the specific. As such they are just words with no meaning and no
intention of meaning, other perhaps than that of deliberate subterfuge.After
the July 2005 bombings of London’s transport system two lone voices
miraculously came to the fore to gently propose multiculturalism as
preached in the UK was more divisive than inclusive. Fortunately, these
voices belonged to non-white immigrants and were thus listened to and
reported on rather than shouted down with the inevitable charge of
racism. Trevor Philips, the Lenin-admiring Guyanese chairman of the
Commission for Racial Equality suggested we were sleepwalking toward
segregation, whilst Dr. John Sentamu, the Ugandan Archbishop of York,
alerted the native British to the dangers of losing their culture.
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