Definition of Multiculturalism
Wednesday
MULTICULTURALISM is a philosophy that appreciates ethnic diversity within a society and that encourages people to learn from the contributions of those of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
There is nothing wrong with multiculturalism. In fact, it's wonderful. It makes the world a better place. It enriches everybody. But wholesale, indiscriminate, across-the-board, reckless multiculturalism is incomplete. It is missing one simple distinction, and that makes it blind.
Multiculturalism is great. Blind multiculturalism can get us into trouble.
The missing distinction is mutuality. It's great to tolerate other religions or ethnic customs if the people following those religions and customs also tolerate ours. It is self-inflicted abuse to tolerate them when they do not tolerate ours. And it is cultural suicide to tolerate a religion that actively tries to undermine or destroy ours.
It is a crime against humanist values to let them be taken away (one small concession at a time) by a less-tolerant culture simply because the less-tolerant culture is more insistent, aggressive, and relentless.
Read more: Multiculturalism and the Defense of Liberty.
3 comments:
Great one, well put and succinctly said.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
tolerate intolerance
.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
allow sharia law
to conquer your country
jail citizens who complain
.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
your culture is supreme
you must KILL all writers
who expose its many failings
.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe loves
multiculturalism
respect other cultures
trying to destroy yours
.
Multiculturalism is the Suicide Nuclear Bomb that the West uses against itself. It DOES NOT TEACH that all cultures are equal-- it teaches that Western Culture is Less Equal than any other, and that any other culture (such as Islam) is More Equal than "opressive, imperialistic" Western culture. Under such a doctrine, the Western Elite MUST make ANY concession to other cultures in order to be able TO SLEEP AT NIGHT [no wonder Islam is winning{!!}]
Its purpose is not to celebrate all cultures, but to DESTROY THE SOCIAL STRENGTH AND VITAL DISTINCTIVENESS OF OUR OWN. Multiculturalism IS THE REAL PROBLEM, BECAUSE IT ENABLES THE RADICALIZATION OF MUSLIMS who had heretofore been mellowed by pragmatic circumstances. After all, if the West will concede everything out of guilt, Islamic Law and a Caliphate (Jumbo Islamic Theocracy) are attainable after all-- get with the program, you moderate muslims!!
If we do not Throw out multiculturalism and the Elites that believe in it, against Islam-- WE WILL BE ASSIMILATED, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
We don't have to throw out multiculturalism. We only have to include our own culture in the appreciation. Multiculturalism simply says that each culture may have many elements in it that deserve respect and appreciation. What blind multiculturalists have done is to leave out our own culture. It says, "Every culture deserves our respect and appreciation, except ours."
The blindness is driven by a rejection of the arrogance of those who have considered their own culture better than everyone else's in every respect.
But trying to oppose this extreme position with the opposite extreme position still misses the reality of the situation, which is that not all cultures are equal, not all cultures allow equal amounts of freedom or human rights, not all cultures allow equal amounts of free speech and rights for women, and not all cultures allow for equal opportunity for economic abundance.
Some cultures are better, in some respects, than others. We should appreciate and be open to other cultures, and here in the West, we are — and we are more open than probably any society has ever been in history, and that's one of the reasons THIS culture, our own culture, is superior to any other culture in at least this one respect (and there are others).
To take an example, does anyone think Saudi Arabian culture is more open to other cultural influences than we are?
No, they aren't. Not even close. Which means we are more open than they are. Which means when it comes to this particular value — openness to influence by other cultures — we measure higher. Our own culture is BETTER. (Gasp!)
Our Western culture is not perfect, and we should never become so arrogant as to think so, but it has many fine qualities. So whenever multiculturalism devolves into hating Western culture, it is as limited and ignorant as LOVING Western culture and hating all others.
But your point, Matthew, and I think you're correct about this, is that if you had two equal cultures and one hated itself but was open to other cultures, and another culture that loved itself but was closed to other cultures, the self-loving culture would be more likely to survive. Especially if it was infiltrated by a politically aggressive culture like Islam.
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