Tory warning on multiculturalism - Multiculturalism = Universalism

Tory warning on multiculturalism - What the Hell.....!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/po...

"In the name of trying to prepare people for some new multicultural society we've encouraged people, particularly the sort of long-term inhabitants, to say 'well your cultural background isn't really very important'."

"The vacuum created by multiculturalism has encouraged support for extremists on both sides"

Multiculturalism does not create a 'vaccum', it creates the potential for integration, amalgamation and increased perspectival growth amongst the stewards of different cultural perspectives.  Multiculturalism is a transitory process that, when pursued with mutual respect, leads, over time, to different 'races' turning into 'dialect groups' comprising a singular National Race.  This is not an ideal but a reality - as witnessed by how nations in the past were formed.

"In 2005, the then shadow home secretary David Davis called on the government to scrap the "outdated" policy, saying that allowing people of different cultures to settle without integrating let the "perverted values of suicide bombers" take root."

Secondly, whilst I abhor the violence that ensues from 'extremism', it seems that Davis believes that transnational empathy has to be displaced by national, and only national, affinity.  Whilst I am appalled by the violence inflicted by the militant branch of the transnational nation of Islam, I do recognise the value of their transnational empathy that does not allow borders to detract them from the reality of familial-arity.  Take the evil of extremism out, and we have something really Universalist and beautiful to learn from and emulate in our globalised village.  With a healthy dash of critical introspection, we will realise that extremism did not arise out of itself, and that multiculturalism, if it does to any degree found extremism, is actually a call for empathy-despite-borders.  To assimilate 'others' so that they may be internationally apathetic goes against the ethos of Universalism. 

Multiculturalism, and the international empathy that it brings along (because of the cross-border ties that various ethnic/cultural communities maintain with their relatives/etc in their countries of origin) is the bridge that can lead the people of all nations (who have been quite successful in learning to see their own ‘citizens’ as ‘family’...as far as capitalism would allow it;) ) in the exodus to a perspective that appreciates all humanity as family.

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