Why do people pretend that multiculturalism is such a great thing when the world is becoming more divided each day?
I don't see it as "pretending". Multiculturism, like most concepts, varies from perspective to perspective.Multiculturism is a biproduct of immigration. It's always happened to an extent. One uniform culture would mean we were brain dead drones.The issues are with mass-immigration. Mass immigration is a booster-shot for the economy. It's artificial, like injecting cattle with growth hormones.You'll perhaps note that in recent times people have become more concerned with economics and politics than they are of their own lives, towns and peers. This is a result of two things.Firstly the Internet which has enabled us to connect globally and also to gorge on information that was previously all but unattainable.Secondly is grassroots education. A slow acclimatisation to multiculturism. This is supported by the government, the law, the courts and the media. I see it as social engineering. Evolution in motion. Removing attributes from the species, attributes which have helped us survive the challenges of time.Mass-immigration is dangerous. Despite all the preaching of acceptance, most of us prefer our own kind. Ethnicities seek out their own kind. It's perfectly natural.But it's not diversity. It's like oil and water. They don't mix. We end up creating a whole new tribalism, complete with differing laws, territories and cultures.I don't think there's anything wrong with multiculturism. The issue is that we have suits making the decisions. Suits who prioritise economics above all else. Under the suits they're just people (I think) and people are stupid, and short sighted, and we make mistakes. Only a fool would blindly assume that politicians are always right.
Germany's Angela Merkel: Multiculturalism has 'utterly failed'. Your thoughts?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party this weekend that the "multikulti" concept – where people of different backgrounds would live together happily – does not work in Germany. At "the beginning of the 1960s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country," said Ms. Merkel at the event in Potsdam, near Berlin. "We kidded ourselves a while. We said: 'They won't stay, [after some time] they will be gone,' but this isn't reality. And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side by side and to enjoy each other ... has failed, utterly failed." The crowd gathered in Potsdam greeted the above remark, delivered from the podium with fervor by Ms. Merkel, with a standing ovation. And her comments come just days after a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank (which is affiliated with the center-left Social Democratic Party) found that more than 30 percent of people believed Germany was "overrun by foreigners" who had come to Germany chiefly for its social benefits. The study also found that 13 percent of Germans would welcome a “Führer” – a German word for leader that is explicitly associated with Adolf Hitler – to run the country “with a firm hand." Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/1017/Germany-s-Angela-Merkel-Multiculturalism-has-utterly-failed Your thoughts?
Will the growing multiculturalism in South Korea ruin the country’s culture?
South Korea will never evolve into a true multi-cultural country like the US, Canada, Australia.The percentage of non-Koreans and the intermixing between groups will be contained.Yes, we will accept more economic immigrants and more foreigners. Yes, there will be more international marriages and their offspring. But they will be ghettoized and South Koreans will probably contain them and not let the entire gene pool change.Addition :I would like to clarify something. South Korea already has a lot of immigrants and this number will grow for sure. Yes I guess it will become multicultural, but it’s a different kind of multicultural compared to the US, Canada, etc. It will be more like Germany or Italy in that there will be significant minority of immigrant group but these groups will stay more or less insular. At the end of the day, Germany is a country for the Germans as Italy is a country of Italians. I could move to Germany today and live there for the rest of my life and I will not be considered German. But in the US, as long as you have American citizenship, speak English fine and integrate, you will be considered American.