Is Multiculturalism Racist?

Multiculturalism is Racist

Encyclopedia Britannica: “Multiculturalism stands as a challenge to liberal democracy. In liberal democracies, all citizens should be treated equally under the law by abstracting the common identity of “citizen” from the real social, cultural, political, and economic positions and identities of real members of society. That leads to a tendency to homogenize the collective of citizens and assume a common political culture that all participate in.”

There are two primary objections to multiculturalism. One is that multiculturalism privileges the good of certain groups over the common good, thereby potentially eroding the common good in favour of a minority interest. National unity could become impossible if people see themselves as members of ethnic or racial groups rather than as citizens of a common country. The second is that multiculturalism undermines the notion of equal individual rights, thereby weakening the political value of equal treatment. Equal individual rights could be set aside or deprecated in favour of rights that are possessed by the group.

Some theorists have worried that multiculturalism can lead to a competition between cultural groups Such competition could even lead to a reaction in which the dominant culture sees itself as a beleaguered group in need of recognition and protection. “

https://www.britannica.com/topic/multiculturalism

In 2015, Merkel criticized multiculturalism on the grounds that it leads to parallel societies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/12/14/angela-merkel-multiculturalism-is-a-sham/

In 2011, Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron said in a speech that “state multiculturalism has failed”.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12371994

“Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and apart from the mainstream. We’ve failed to provide a vision of society to which they [young Muslims] feel they want to belong” (Cameron 2011)

Trevor Phillips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality, who has called for an official end to multicultural policy, has criticised “politically correct liberals for their “misguided” pandering to the ethnic lobby”

In November 2005 John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, said, “Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me: let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.”

Multiculturalism is about group rights. As such the rights of individuals within come second, as for example in the case of young Muslim women, who want to opt for a modern liberal lifestyle but are forbidden from doing so by the cultural rules of the group.

Multiculturalists praise the history, roots, traditions, and culinary highlights of cultures overseas. And they denigrate British culture, and history as racist and colonialist, not withstanding the fact that empires existed throughout south Asia and th Middle East for millennia. Still they claim to be anti-nationalists. But they really are nationalists, just not here, but “over there.”

“Other things being equal, the more cultural… homogeneity within the population of a defined territory, the better the prospects in terms of economic solidarity” (Philippe Van Parijs). This is why the Nordic social models held up so well until recently. The inference is though quite clear – diversity reduces social trust and solidarity. You’re not going to feel solidarity with a group you’re told you don’t belong to. This means that the public won’t support policies for redistributing wealth to groups other than their own. Such policies are viewed as discriminatory and divisive.

Multiculturalism undermines one’s sense of common national identity. That’s why the Tories were forced to invent and formalise the concept of “British Values” and why Muslims don’t like the government’s Prevent Strategy. Multiculturalism also divides up according to our skin tones, making it harder to those of migrant heritage to regard themselves as English, Scots, Irish or Welsh, conditions which are a prerequisite of being British.

Religious and cultural minorities are responsible for their own beliefs and practices, just the same as anyone else. If, culturally, Asian women are not as economically active as wider society, then Asian families will be financially poorer because of it, and you can’t expect the majority to compensate them for it. Similarly if you choose to box, play football and do athletics instead of getting a degree, then some other minority is going to get to be a well paid NHS consultant.

Similarly extolling the virtues of minority groups which are heavily male dominated, merely serves to strengthen gender inequality. You can’t be a multiculturalist and a feminist

Indirect discrimination

Indirect discrimination is when rules or practices, which are applied equally to everybody, result in certain people being put at a disadvantage. For example:

Applying an unnecessary height restriction that will disadvantage more women than men

Not providing religiously appropriate food when catering (e.g. vegetarian dishes)

Offering services at limited times that would clash with religious observance.

It is possible to deliberately set rules that indirectly disadvantage certain groups. At other times there may not be a deliberate attempt to discriminate. In the second case it is still discrimination and the rules need to be amended so that opportunities are equal.

For an example of indirect discrimination consider the following: In the land which lies south of Berwick and east of Cardiff all attempts at multiculturalism have resulted in the place becoming less English. In fact anything which makes the place more multicultural will always make it less English. Multiculturalism benefits all cultures except the English. For example:

England’s capital is now only 44% English. Other countries can have their own capital, but not England it seems. People of Polish, Romanian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Nigerian and the West Indian heritage aren’t diminished by multiculturalism, but English people are.

Did you know that an estimated 50,000 people in Birmingham can’t even speak English? Sajid Javid revealed that 770,000 people living in England speak no English or hardly any. That’s why our health budget has to find £23,000,000 every year to pay for interpreters. That’s money that could be spend on doctors, nurses and medicine. Then there’s £15,000,000 annually in interpreter bills for HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS). £1m of taxpayer’s money was spent on foreign language interpreters by Dorset Police and the CPS in 2014. That’s money that could have provided extra police. The (English) majority of taxpayers are paying for the minority of (multicultural) taxpayers to save them the effort of learning English.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/756977/NHS-spends-100-million-on-TRANSLATORS-in-128-languages

https://www.translatemedia.com/translation-blog/spending-uk-court-interpreters-doubles/

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/11110109.1m-of-taxpayers-money-spent-on-foreign-language-interpreters-by-dorset-police-and-the-cps/

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/british-white-people-set-become-14830628

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/14/sajid-javid-770000-people-in-england-not-able-to-speak-english

Let’s look at the role multiculturalism plays in the protection of our country. Gurkhas aside, some other cultures don’t think its their job to defend the nation and the role falls disproportionately on the ‘natives’ and other minorities:

The trends are already in the pipeline. In schools the BAME student population stands at around 30%, and about 60% in London. In ten or 15 years all those students will be adults and the country will be less English than it is now.

“What is diversity without integration ? You cannot come to United Kingdom and live like you are in Pakistan , it you want to live like you are in Pakistan go to Pakistan” – A black guy wrote that.