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Dis-United Kingdom (Multiculturalism isn't working)
The Weekly Standard ^ | December 5, 2005 | Leo McKinstry

Posted on 12/02/2005 1:21:17 PM PST by RWR8189

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1 posted on 12/02/2005 1:21:19 PM PST by RWR8189
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I believe that the British approach to race relations has been disastrous, fostering disunity, tension, and ethnic strife on a much greater scale than anything that has occurred in France.

Maybe, but I would like to see the unemployment statistics for British immigrants which are esimated at 40% in France. Racial problems, gangs, drugs, etc are not the same as what happened in France in my opinion.

2 posted on 12/02/2005 1:27:58 PM PST by bkepley
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To: RWR8189

Diversity is our strength


3 posted on 12/02/2005 1:29:00 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator

Ignorance is Strength!


4 posted on 12/02/2005 1:35:11 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: RWR8189

There is a lesson to be learned here but are we, in the United States, smart enough to learn it. IMO, no we are not.


5 posted on 12/02/2005 1:35:47 PM PST by Old Seadog (Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
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The root cause of multiculti BS failing is moslem presence. When did I last hear of Indiian or Chinese or vietnamese immigrants demanding special treatment on the basis of racial, religious or cultural whatever?


6 posted on 12/02/2005 1:35:50 PM PST by voletti ("A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus)
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To: bkepley
Maybe, but I would like to see the unemployment statistics for British immigrants which are esimated at 40% in France. Racial problems, gangs, drugs, etc are not the same as what happened in France in my opinion.

It may in fact not be the same. but you are missing the point...politically correct multiculturalism breeds disunity and lack of a collective identity...if your're not British (or American) first then your're not really a citizen!
7 posted on 12/02/2005 1:39:17 PM PST by terryt
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I'm a first generation American of British descent. My dad always said that 'the only Limey's with any brains came to America.' He knew whereof he spoke.


8 posted on 12/02/2005 1:42:40 PM PST by Spok (Est omnis de civilitate.)
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We are doing the same thing here only with Mexico and latin america. We are letting millions of peasants in here who not only have no allegiance to America, they believe we stole it from them. Assimulation?? No way!


9 posted on 12/02/2005 1:44:44 PM PST by calrighty (. Troops BTTT)
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You are exactly right, sir. We are NOT smart enough to learn. The problem is that political correctness and multiculturalism, which are siblings, both trump over reason, rational thought and self-preservation. We will DIE as a nation before we have the sense to stop this nonsense. Even now, it is just as actively promoted in our nation as in Britain.


10 posted on 12/02/2005 1:46:39 PM PST by OldArmy94
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Just before the trouble began in Paris, there were several nights of street fighting between Asian and African-Caribbean gangs in Birmingham, England's second largest city.

There's the difference. The people living in Britain didn't just roll over and take the Muslim cr*p. Same thing with the states - if some aggrieved minority group started burning thousands of cars, a bunch of those aggrieved jerks would be shot by concerned private citizens.

11 posted on 12/02/2005 1:48:01 PM PST by glorgau
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Slogans such as "Diversity is our strength" unfortunately pass for thought now-a-days. There never has existed a society of differences. Men come together on the basis of similarities of thought, or goals. The Roman Empire brought men together to share a common vision. So too, the USA, at least until recently. The logical end to multi-culturalism is a Babel of tribalism, voo-doo, and chaos. These immigrants came to France and the UK and the USA because their cultures were not working! Not convinced? Find a culture or society today which is successful which is not modeled on Western Christian culture.
12 posted on 12/02/2005 1:54:16 PM PST by Free Born Man (More Bumper Sticker "Thought" Free Born Man)
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To: terryt
It may in fact not be the same. but you are missing the point...politically correct multiculturalism breeds disunity and lack of a collective identity...if your're not British (or American) first then your're not really a citizen!

Also immigration in general causes these sorts of problems. Europe and America would probably not have to worry so much about political fashion if we would put a complete halt to immigration for a hundred years or so to allow the countries to absorb them. My guess is that Europe and the US are absorbing immigrants from very different societies than we are used receiving immigrants from at an unprecedented rate.

13 posted on 12/02/2005 1:54:21 PM PST by bkepley
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Multiculturalism? Help me out; I seem to have forgotten -- why is it, again, that multiculturalism is a good thing?


14 posted on 12/02/2005 2:44:59 PM PST by Continental Soldier
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Same thing here in Canada, but not as far gone, yet.

Multi-culturalism worked fine when it mostly white Europeans coming here and holding onto their own customs, which even for the most backwards peasants escaping the Ukraine, for example, shared a lot of values with the predominately British and French Canadians who were already here. But when you start getting a lot of people from backwards, 3rd-world hellholes bringing the dysfunctional (not to mention backwards, misogynistic, racist, anti-semitic, etc,etc) culture of their homelands here, it doesn't work so well.


15 posted on 12/02/2005 3:06:05 PM PST by -YYZ-
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To: Regulator

Diversity is divergent!


16 posted on 12/02/2005 3:11:56 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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"the recent wave of rioting across France, largely perpetrated by Muslim youths, has offered new scope to this smugness. Since the conflict began, the British media have been full of sneers about racial problems in French society..."
Those involved, including the author of this article, might find the problems less perplexing if they could recognize the difference between religion and race.
17 posted on 12/02/2005 3:16:47 PM PST by Savage Beast ("Oprah: The light that shines so gently on those who need it most." ~Sidney Poitier)
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To: Spok
My dad always said that 'the only Limey's with any brains came to America.'

Perhaps.

But, sadly, they never learned the correct use of the apostrophe.

18 posted on 12/02/2005 3:34:33 PM PST by Da_Shrimp
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To: Free Born Man
There never has existed a society of differences

Kind of a contradiction on its face, isn't it?

19 posted on 12/02/2005 4:48:38 PM PST by Regulator
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Diversity is divergent!

And getting more so every day.

20 posted on 12/02/2005 4:49:11 PM PST by Regulator
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