Talk about multiculturalism

The Economist (20 columnist Bagehot (2007):

“Once it connoted curry and the Notting Hill carnival; these days, when applied to British politicians or their policies, ‘multiculturalism’ is almost as derogatory a term as ‘socialist’ or ‘neocon’. Even more than they agree about most other things, the main political parties are united in their convictions that multiculturalism is a perniciously naïve idea whose time has gone, or ought never to have come at all.”

Oct 2010:“This [multicultural] approach has failed, utterly failed”

Feb 2011:“Doctrine of state multiculturalism” has failed.

Amy Gutmann (1993):

“Not all people are as multicultural as Rushdie, but most people’s identities, not just Western intellectuals and elites, are shaped by more than a single culture. Not only societies, but people, are multicultural.”

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