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What good is Multi-Culturalism?

Funkyrhino said:
Seriously, what good is multi-culturalism? Can someone list some postive traits of multiculturalism..
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Food. If it weren't for multiculturalism we'd all be eating boiled mutton and potatoes. Just look at cities like Melbourne, thanks to Italian culture we have one of the most vibrant food, wine and coffee scenes in the world. I'd hate to live in a heterogenous society, if you ask me other cultures soften the ugly nature of our own empty, materialistic western culture.
 
As i said before there can never be true unity in a multicultural society. the perfect example is homegrown terrorists in a country. These people only believe in thier own views and there own people. Immigrants dont want to lose thier identity, they will not fully integrate into another country and wont respect it as a whole and the other cultures that make it up. They come but keep thier own ideals, values and care about thier own people. So you have these different groups of people, segragated that care about thier own kind. This seperation isnt good for the whole. People see others from different cultural groups as outsiders to their own. living in a country filled with different outsiders doesnt make sense. id rather live somewhere where i identify with everyone and can connect with all people.
 
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yellodolphin said:
As i said before there can never be true unity in a multicultural society. the perfect example is homegrown terrorists in a country. These people only believe in thier own views and there own people. Immigrants dont want to lose thier identity, they will not fully integrate into another country and wont respect it as a whole and the other cultures that make it up. They come but keep thier own ideals, values and care about thier own people. So you have these different groups of people, segragated that care about thier own kind. This seperation isnt good for the whole. People see others from different cultural groups as outsiders to their own. living in a country filled with different outsiders doesnt make sense. id rather live somewhere where i identify with everyone and can connect with all people.
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The ability to connect and relate with people goes beyond ethnocentric identity. People are also at different levels of consciousness. A scientist(rational level) will generally see a fundamentalist(ethnocentric level) as deluded, insane sheep. The fundamentalist will generally see the scientist as evil, self serving, and dangerous. The hippy(worldcentric level) will generally see both as complete dicks killing the environment and supporting the oppressive government. You get three of these together in one room and they simply won't be able to fully understand each others perspective.


It is true that alot of foreigners do let their lives revolve around their ethnocentric identity. But this is mostly due to the fact that America is collectively ethnocentric. This leaves no room for foreigners to find a place in society for themselves forcing them to create their own.

If America was predominently rational/worldcentric then people would more naturally assimilate into it.
 
t isnt a positive thing. My city is very multicultural and it takes away from the unity among people that live together. people will always belong to thier own cultural groups and identify with them more then others, so it creates a seperation of these different groups.
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thats true in a way.

well shit, yeah multi-culturalism adds the best aspects of each separate culture together and we are definately better unified, but sometimes racials lines are too bold to allow conglomeration. until we stop making race such a focul point in society (media-BET, BLACK history month), race borders will continue to divide people, especially here in the US. using the color of our skin to determine so much of our status in society is a shame.
 
>>until we stop making race such a focul point in society (media-BET, BLACK history month)>>

Concentrated and impoverished African American ghettos have FAR more to do with continuing racialization than than BET or Black History Month ever did.

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Are black Americans culturally different from white and other Americans? I mean, I think they're ethnically distinct in many ways, but having been to places like Indonesia, I feel all people born and raised in the US have a lot more culturally in common with each other than fellow citizens of a lot of places can claim.

I think the continued impoverishment of black Americans has a lot to do with white bosses preferring white workers and white landlords preferring white tenants. To paraphrase the way Alan Watts explained it, blacks' status as second class citizens has cultivated in them an attitude and way of relating to people that rubs many white people, especially ones in positions of authority, the wrong way. And around and around the viscious cycle turns.

I think multiculturalism works fine if 1) the locals of whatever place have attitudes and policies in place that virtually ensure the children of migrants will integrate, and 2) the migrants are willing and able to let their children and grandchildren integrate.
 
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