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03/10/2008: "Multiculturalism a historical misstep"

Future historians of the phenomenon known as “multiculturalism” that the West bone-headedly adopted towards the end of the second millennium will note the precise time when it was dealt a mortal wound.

The idea that all cultures are equal in merit and deserving respect, an idea devoid of any historical perspective, could be seriously proposed and adopted only in western liberal democracies. And logically such an idea meant only one thing, the diminution of the West and its achievements in comparison to other cultures.

Multiculturalism institutionalized as a policy, run by self-perpetuating bureaucracies and sustained by entrepreneurs of a growing multicultural industry, became an easy ride for its proponents and clients.

Multiculturalism worked so long as the illusion of cultural harmony could be maintained.

[ People are gentle, and want things to be easy and distantly perfect, so they opt for solutions like multiculturalism which have more in common with Hollywood movies and emotional crying binges than reality. ]

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Mansur_Salim/2008/03/08/4945871-sun.php