Introduction
Your kids ask for mashed potato,
So you serve it for them explaining that their request lacked diversity. “I have added 14% chips, 12% boiled potato, 15% roast potato, 11.5% raw* potato, 4% new potatoes, sweet potato and 2% uncooked* potato to better reflect the demographic make-up of potatoes. 58% of your mashed potato can’t be mashed, or you’d be a racist.” Isn’t that what happened to the English population of London?
*Raw and uncooked potatoes follow different religions.
Multiculturalism
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. “
In 2015, Merkel criticized multiculturalism on the grounds that it leads to parallel societies.
In 2011, Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron said in a speech that “state multiculturalism has failed”. “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 former 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 the 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.
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.
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 member is going to get to be a well paid NHS consultant.
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 37% 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. The idea that England is a better place by virtue of being less English is not a principle we apply to other countries. We don’t tell African countries that they would benefit from white people emigrating to their countries and entering their parliaments. We don’t tell China it’s too Chinese, and we don’t tell the West Papuans that they benefitted from the ethnic diversity delivered to them in the form of an Indonesian invasion, so the idea that this should apply to the English is faintly racist.
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.
Another aspect of the racism of multiculturalism is the venom directed at those who criticise its failure. Whether it’s Sue Braverman or Rishi Sunak, the response is the same. They can’t hold certain conservative views because of their skin colour or ethnicity. Rishi Sunak gets called a ‘coconut’ and Sue Braverman is not allowed to point out any failures to integrate. Why? Because she integrated, and that isn’t what multiculturalism is about. The idea that someone of the brown skin colour is not entitled to hold the same views as as a white-skinned Englishman is almost acceptable these days, but it’s still racist nonetheless. Freedom of conscience is a human right, and people are entitled to believe what they may regardless of their skin colour.
British politician not conforming to skin colour groupthink:
Other failures of multiculturalism were the month-long riots in Leicester in 2022 between Hindus and Muslims, angered at what was happening in someone else’s continent far, far away.
Scottish PM tells Pakistani media that he is a son of the (Pakistani) soil – says he wants to visit his fatherland, motherland He was in fact born in Scotland and also considers himself to be Pakistani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrbwcW431H4
There is a Met Police analysis of attacks on Muslims during the period 2005 -2012. Some things stick out, and you won’t like it. Over one-half of the suspects were perceived to be ‘White European’ and one-quarter were ‘African-Caribbean’. Quite how that relates to London demographics I’m not sure, but I think that blacks are over represented. When it came to actual charges, it gets more interesting. 70% of those charged were born outside the UK. Different cultures don’t like each other. Isn’t that strange?
Loyal British Muslims explain that the poppy is worn by racists and war criminals. They go on to say that Muslims should not have fought in either WW1 or WW2, and that the poppy is a celebration of militarism. WW1 was apparently bad for Muslims because they lost their Caliphate.
This is a mainstream UK based Muslim media outlet, specialising in Muslim affairs. The two men are the editor of and a journalist at ‘5 Pillars’ .
https://fb.watch/ofhCTWANOY/
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. According to government figures, more than 900 people have travelled from the UK to join Isis and other jihadi groups in the countries since 2014. By 2018 there were just 570 – 650 Muslims in UK armed forces.
Summary
Multiculturalism is the word used to describe the state of affairs when assimilation and integration have largely not taken place, and we don’t want to use the word, ‘failure’. That integration is NOT taking place can in 1984 doublespeak be deemed a success.
Happy, homogenous societies with close social cohesion consider home events more important than those in different continents and don’t riot on ethnic or sectarian grounds.
What is optimistically called diversity is the opposite of homogenous, and numerous scientific studies over decades in several countries tell us that ‘diverse societies’ lack social cohesion and trust. They are also linked to higher rates of crime.
