Multiculturism in the UK?
Feb 3rd 2013, 12:19 am
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Multiculturism in the UK?
There are a few recent threads on BE skirting around multiculture ( ism ) and how it affects the UK. I find the whole subject fascinating but if I'm perfectly honest I have no idea if it's going to be a good thing in the long term or not. Sometimes, I sit on the fence, sometimes I fall off on one side only to climb back up and fall off the other side. The complexity of it all goes beyond one group calling the other racist, Xenophobic, Islamophobic etc and the other group picking up on what are often minor incidents recorded ( and exagerated ) in the tabloids and using them to tar and brush a whole community.
I worry a little about the lack of social identity that seems to perpetrate modern society. We need identity to motivate us and work towards shared goals. Once we start to lose that identity we start to lose respect for neighbours, the environment and lifestyle, resulting in the apathy of a 'dumbed' down consumerist society that needs nothing more from life than enough to get by on and to hell with everybody else.
Is there a correlation between multiculturism and a growing lack of social identity?
I worry a little about the lack of social identity that seems to perpetrate modern society. We need identity to motivate us and work towards shared goals. Once we start to lose that identity we start to lose respect for neighbours, the environment and lifestyle, resulting in the apathy of a 'dumbed' down consumerist society that needs nothing more from life than enough to get by on and to hell with everybody else.
Is there a correlation between multiculturism and a growing lack of social identity?
Feb 3rd 2013, 6:33 pm
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Re: Multiculturism in the UK?
Hasn't the UK always been multi-cultural?
Waves of people from Europe invaded Britain over the centuries and it was probably pretty difficult at first. Now you can't tell who has Roman, Viking, Celtic, Jewish etc blood because we're assimilated.
Waves of people from Europe invaded Britain over the centuries and it was probably pretty difficult at first. Now you can't tell who has Roman, Viking, Celtic, Jewish etc blood because we're assimilated.
Feb 3rd 2013, 6:37 pm
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Re: Multiculturism in the UK?
Multiculturalism is nothing new ! The Roman Empire ? More recently the Austro-Hungarian ? Ah, now, wait a minute...........................
Feb 3rd 2013, 9:12 pm
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Had to endure a fair bit of rape, pillage and a couple of divisive walls built across the country before we all got along though. Let's hope the current path to assimilation is not so dramatic.
Feb 4th 2013, 4:55 am
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Re: Multiculturism in the UK?
Isn't the problem that some people see assimilation as a good thing and others see assimilation as a bad thing?
Feb 4th 2013, 8:49 am
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Re: Multiculturism in the UK?
Found this blog piece this morning. It doesn't leave me any the wiser, but the points made and the counter points in the comments make for quite an articulate debate on the subject.
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/philosophe...doesnt-matter/
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/philosophe...doesnt-matter/
Feb 4th 2013, 5:55 pm
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Re: Multiculturism in the UK?
Yes it has, nothing new.
