Multiculturalism Revisited

American Thinker ^ | July 30, 2011 | Michael Curtis

[Old Badger]

The French writer Pascal Bruckner has defined multiculturalism as racism of the antiracists. It tends to chain people to their roots and to imprison them in an ethnic or racial definition of their group. It may not only undermine individuality and self-reliance, but also may prevent people from liberating themselves from their own group traditions. Celebrating differences among people has become a means of enforcing group identity...................In recent practice, multiculturalism has led to restriction rather than protection of free speech -- e.g., to laws making it a criminal offense to make critical remarks about some religious, ethnic, or national groups. It has led in the West to tolerating minorities that are themselves intolerant.

[Old Badger]

Reminds me of Jesse Jackson in late 60's or early 70's: "We are not Americans-We are African Americans" statement!

[Cronos]

the problem is accepting the French laicite version of secularism and multiculturalism rather than the Indian version of secularism

[Old Badger]

bump a el mundo