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Multiculturalism: A Failed Concept (Walter Williams)
Creators Syndicate ^ | June 29, 2016 | Walter E. Williams

Posted on 06/28/2016 10:13:02 AM PDT by jazusamo

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that multiculturalism has "utterly failed," adding that it was an illusion to think Germans and foreign workers could "live happily side by side." The failure of multiculturalism is also seen in Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and other European countries. Immigrants coming from Africa and the Middle East refuse to assimilate and instead seek to import the failed cultures they fled.

Leftist diversity advocates and multiculturalists are right to argue that people of all races, religions and cultures should be equal in the eyes of the law. But their argument borders on idiocy when they argue that one set of cultural values cannot be judged superior to another and that to do so is Eurocentrism.

That's unbridled nonsense. Ask a diversity/multiculturalism advocate: Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in northern Sudan. In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limits placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning, and thieves are punished by having their hand severed. In some African and Middle Eastern countries, homosexuality is a crime, in some cases punishable by death. Are all these cultural values morally equivalent to those of the West?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: academia; diversity; islam; liberty; migrants; multiculturalism; muslims; refugecrisis; williams
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1 posted on 06/28/2016 10:13:02 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

They very term: multiculturalism, is an oxymoron.........................


2 posted on 06/28/2016 10:14:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: jazusamo

Some people think multiculturalism is the attempt to raise up primitive nonwhite 3rd worlders by having them rub elbows with civilized Westerners, in a process akin to osmosis.

This is not true.

Mutliculturalism is an attempt by the elites to destroy the unity and cohesiveness of advanced white western societies so that they could better reduce them to serfdom and irrelevance while at the same time convincing the people in those societies to continue to work hard and turn over their money to them.


3 posted on 06/28/2016 10:17:29 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan
Some people think multiculturalism is the attempt to raise up primitive nonwhite 3rd worlders by having them rub elbows with civilized Westerners, in a process akin to osmosis.

In fact, the opposite is true.

It's akin to adding a dollop of dog poop to a half gallon of vanilla ice cream ... and just as appetizing.

4 posted on 06/28/2016 10:20:47 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: jazusamo

It’s impossible for Christians, Jews, Hindus, et al, to live harmoniously with illiterate, filthy monsters whose goal in life is to murder them.


5 posted on 06/28/2016 10:26:18 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: jazusamo

Multiculturalism is a concept promoted by those who dont have to live in it or with its consequences.


6 posted on 06/28/2016 10:26:20 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: jazusamo

Walter Williams is rock solid. I’ve yet to see him go wobbly.


7 posted on 06/28/2016 10:27:19 AM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: T-Bone Texan
Some people think multiculturalism is the attempt to raise up primitive nonwhite 3rd worlders by having them rub elbows with civilized Westerners, in a process akin to osmosis.

kinda like forced bussing a few decades ago.

8 posted on 06/28/2016 10:27:48 AM PDT by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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To: jazusamo
The West no longer has the advantage. Abortion and the embrace of homosexuality, and the forcing of the same on third world countries, has destroyed our righteousness.
9 posted on 06/28/2016 10:32:04 AM PDT by donna (Trump does not have protesters-Trump has voters. These thugs are LaRaza protesters.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Modern day Multiculturalism is nothing more than “neo-colonialism” being used as revenge by the elites who either loathe their own cultures (Angela Merkel) or the people from formerly colonized countries who have gigantic chips on their shoulders (Barak Obama).


10 posted on 06/28/2016 10:33:09 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: bassmaner
It's akin to adding a dollop of dog poop to a half gallon of vanilla ice cream ... and just as appetizing.

Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich were pushing for a pint of dog poop in our half gallon of ice cream. Speaker Ryan and Mitch McConnell are holding the line at only half a pint per half gallon. Is it any wonder that Donald Trump is more popular than even the republicans who hold the line and force liberals to compromise?

11 posted on 06/28/2016 10:34:21 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: bankwalker

Forced bussing was never about equality of education. It was about breaking the backs of the white working class and destroying them as a political force.

Guess what? It worked!


12 posted on 06/28/2016 10:37:21 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: donna

Well said, and unlike in the past a large number of legal and illegal immigrants do not come here to assimilate.


13 posted on 06/28/2016 10:41:26 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

Everybody remarks at the cheek of Britain in voting Out, but they don’t want to talk about the dying monster that is Brussels. Brussels needs sacked. Little Britain is only little because she have been enslaved, shackled to a corpse since post world war 2.


14 posted on 06/28/2016 10:46:22 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: GraceG

You got to love your SELF.


15 posted on 06/28/2016 10:47:43 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: jazusamo

As the saying goes:

“If you add a drop of sewage to a barrel of wine, you have sewage. If you add a drop of wine to a barrel of sewage you have sewage”.


16 posted on 06/28/2016 10:51:45 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: ichabod1

I have begun to speculate lately, only partially tongue-in-cheek, that the entire EU plot is actually revenge by the Belgians against the rest of Europe for being relegated to the status of doormat to Western Europe during WWII.


17 posted on 06/28/2016 10:53:22 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: jazusamo

Multiculturalism is a logical impossibility and as such pure idiocy.

The essence of a culture is its values.

It is thus impossible for two cultures to coexist peacefully if what they value is in direct opposition.

Such is the case between western values and islamic values, same with western values and marxism or naziism.

The essence of western value is the idea of freedom with responsibility. Islam, Communism, Naziism hate freedom, thus they can never peacefully coexist with the “West”.


18 posted on 06/28/2016 10:54:03 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: jazusamo; All

Multi-culturalism started as anti-Christianity, by claiming that there was no way to say one religion was any more valid than any other. This was always pushed by “progressives” as self evident, and as a means to “prove” that any set of morals and ethics are completely man-made and malleable.

This is used by them to rationalized their “anything is allowed” life.

It morphed into “all cultures are equal”, except of course, Western Christian culture, which is evi.

If you look back at the “progressives” of the 20’s and 30’s you find this consistent thread.


19 posted on 06/28/2016 10:56:27 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Little Pig

I would agree with you there, but if you go to Brussels, and ask about the EU, you get the same dumb looks you get anywhere else. Nobody knows who these rulers are. It’s quite insane. Brexit - the Movie opened my eyes a lot. Well worth a watch.


20 posted on 06/28/2016 10:57:59 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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