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Parsons">Talcott C. Parsons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ueno_Chizuko" title="Ueno Chizuko">Ueno Chizuko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_E._Smith" title="Dorothy E. Smith">Dorothy E. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vaush" title="Vaush">Vaush</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:white; background-color:#3333ff; text-align:center;"><b>Class projects</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#C2C2FF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tradition" title="Tradition">Tradition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Privacy" title="Privacy">Privacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">Torture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab" title="Arab">Arab</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Sociology" title="Template:Sociology">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Sociology" title="Template talk:Sociology">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Sociology&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Multiculturalism</b> is the phenomenon of multiple groups of <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">cultures</a> existing within one <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>, largely due to the arrival of immigrant communities, or the acceptance and advocacy of this phenomenon. Supporters of multiculturalism claim that different <a href="/wiki/Tradition" title="Tradition">traditions</a> and cultures can enrich society; however, the concept also has its critics, to the point where the term "multiculturalism" may well be used more by critics than by supporters. It could, indeed, be classified as a <a href="/wiki/Snarl_word" class="mw-redirect" title="Snarl word">snarl word</a> or a buzzword, depending on the audience. </p><p>Right-wingers sometimes call multiculturalism <b>cultural suicide</b> or <b>national suicide</b>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Definitions"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Definitions</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Jewsdiddit"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Jewsdiddit</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Criticisms"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Criticisms</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Now_here.27s_the_irony"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Now here's the irony</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Multicultural_woo"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Multicultural woo</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Definitions">Definitions</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Definitions">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Multiculturalism occurs naturally when a society is willing to accept the culture of immigrants (with, ideally, immigrants <i>also</i> willing to accept the culture of the land to which they have come). A distinction should be drawn between multiculturalism that occurs simply due to the absence of a single enforced culture, and multiculturalism which is endorsed and actively encouraged by the <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a>; this is often referred to as <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">state</a> multiculturalism. </p><p>Kenan Malik states that "The experience of living in a society transformed by mass immigration, a society that is less insular, more vibrant and more cosmopolitan, is positive" but contrasts this with the political process of multiculturalism, which "describes a set of policies, the aim of which is to manage diversity by putting people into ethnic boxes, defining individual needs and rights by virtue of the boxes into which people are put, and using those boxes to shape public policy."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> </p><p>In reality, there is a spectrum between a monoculture where everyone is exactly the same, and the negative stereotype of multiculturalism where a society is totally divided into separate ethnic communities who never associate. In any actual society, people will mix and associate with those of other races/cultures, while also keeping some kind of social or cultural identity (e.g. based on religion, ethnic group, local area, sport team, gang affiliation, goth/punk/skin/emo/etc subculture...). Complaints about multiculturalism usually arise when people encounter members of another subgroup but feel they are mixing too little; complaints about forced assimilation when people are forced to associate and compromise too much. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Jewsdiddit">Jewsdiddit</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Jewsdiddit">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>An interview of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lerner_Spectre" class="extiw" title="wp:Barbara Lerner Spectre" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Barbara Lerner Spectre">Barbara Spectre</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> with Israeli <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBA_News" class="extiw" title="wp:IBA News" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: IBA News">IBA News</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> has gained wide attention among <a href="/wiki/Far_right" title="Far right">far right</a> websites,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> and among writers such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sv:Lars_Holger_Holm" class="extiw" title="wp:sv:Lars Holger Holm" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: sv:Lars Holger Holm">Lars Holger Holm</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> (who has <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150304192832/http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Lars_Holger_Holm">a rather positive review</a> on <a href="/wiki/Metapedia" title="Metapedia">Metapedia</a>). The interview has been widely dispersed through <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Social_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Social media">social media</a>, in which Spectre says: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. And I think we are going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It's a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Criticisms">Criticisms</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Criticisms">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Critics claim that multiculturalism promotes a <a href="/wiki/Tolerance" title="Tolerance">tolerance</a> of <s>new ideas</s> <a href="/wiki/Moral_relativism" class="mw-redirect" title="Moral relativism">moral relativism</a> and results in a loss of <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">national identity</a>. Unfortunately, multiculturalism can sometimes lead to the development of souring subcultures: see, for example, the <a href="/wiki/Bigot" class="mw-redirect" title="Bigot">bigotry</a> promoted at the <a href="/wiki/East_London_Mosque" title="East London Mosque">East London Mosque</a>. </p><p>There is a central <a href="/wiki/Paradox" title="Paradox">paradox</a> in multiculturalism in that it is itself a cultural value, and one particular to <a href="/wiki/Western_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Western culture">Western culture</a>; not all cultures are tolerant of other cultures, and so insisting on them respecting other cultures would perhaps not be respecting them. </p><p>In February 2011, <a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> delivered a speech arguing against state multiculturalism:<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>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 feel they want to belong. We've even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run completely counter to our values. So, when a white person holds objectionable views, racist views for instance, we rightly condemn them. But when equally unacceptable views or practices come from someone who isn't white, we've been too cautious frankly – frankly, even fearful – to stand up to them. The failure, for instance, of some to confront the horrors of forced marriage, the practice where some young girls are bullied and sometimes taken abroad to marry someone when they don't want to, is a case in point. This hands-off tolerance has only served to reinforce the sense that not enough is shared. And this all leaves some young Muslims feeling rootless. And the search for something to belong to and something to believe in can lead them to this extremist ideology. Now for sure, they don't turn into terrorists overnight, but what we see – and what we see in so many European countries – is a process of radicalisation.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>He concluded that <a href="/wiki/Britain" class="mw-redirect" title="Britain">Britain</a> "should encourage meaningful and active participation in society, by shifting the balance of power away from the state and towards the people [and] also help build stronger pride in local identity, so people feel free to say, ‘Yes, I am a <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>, I am a <a href="/wiki/Hindu" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindu">Hindu</a>, I am <a href="/wiki/Christian" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian">Christian</a>, but I am also a <a href="/wiki/London" class="mw-redirect" title="London">Londoner</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner" title="Ich bin ein Berliner">Berliner</a> too.'" </p><p><a href="/wiki/Johann_Hari" title="Johann Hari">Johann Hari</a> has argued that multiculturalism is too reductive ("Multiculturalism patronisingly treats immigrants as homogenous blocks — when in fact they are as diffuse and dissenting as the rest of us. Would anybody lump me in with <a href="/wiki/Richard_Littlejohn" title="Richard Littlejohn">Richard Littlejohn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nick_Griffin" class="mw-redirect" title="Nick Griffin">Nick Griffin</a> as part of a 'white community'?") and can lead to oppression, as in the case of <a href="/wiki/Misogynistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Misogynistic">misogynistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Sharia</a> courts. He also argues against "the old whiter-than-white monoculturalism [whereby] if people are going to live together, they need to look and feel similar, and have a tightly prescribed shared identity." Instead, he calls for what he terms simply <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">liberalism</a>: "A liberal society allows an individual to do whatever he or she wants, provided it doesn't harm other people. You can choose to wear PVC hotpants or a veil. You can choose to spend all day praying, or all day mocking people who pray. Where a multiculturalist prizes the rights of religious groups, a liberal favours the rights of the individual."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> </p><p>Multiculturalism is also commonly used as a snarl word by the <a href="/wiki/Religious_Right" title="Religious Right">Religious Right</a> and nationalist <a href="/wiki/Crank" title="Crank">cranks</a> of various stripes. It often serves the purpose of being a catch-all term for <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights" title="Civil rights">civil rights</a>, <a href="/wiki/Affirmative_Action" class="mw-redirect" title="Affirmative Action">Affirmative Action</a>, <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gay_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay rights">gay rights</a>, <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">separation of church and state</a>, and any other policy that doesn't promote the interests of straight white Christian men.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span id="Now_here's_the_irony"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Now_here.27s_the_irony">Now here's the irony</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Now here's the irony">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>While <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> was the original (and arguably, <a href="/wiki/Canada#Multiculturalism.2FMulticulturalisme" title="Canada">most successful</a>) nation to introduce state multiculturalism as a platform in the 1970s thanks to liberals and <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democrats</a>;<sup>[<a href="/wiki/Help:References" title="Help:References"><i>citation needed</i></a>]</sup> the idea was devised long before by <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Canada">Progressive Conservatives</a>, including a senator named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Yuzyk" class="extiw" title="wp:Paul Yuzyk" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Paul Yuzyk">Paul Yuzyk</span></a>.<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> </p><p>And Cameron's comment, in particular, on the ability to keep one's cultural background while still being "English," sounds strikingly similar to what apparently <i>was</i> the intention of multiculturalism in the first place, as explained by former <a href="/wiki/Tory" title="Tory">Scottish Unionist</a> politician and Canadian Governor General John Buchan: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>[Ethnic groups] should retain their individuality <i>and</i> each make its contribution to the national character... the strongest nations are those that are made up of different racial elements.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Buchan, 1935<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>So it may appear that the rest of the world took the term off the shelves without realizing what it actually meant. Great job everyone! </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Multicultural_woo">Multicultural woo</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Multicultural woo">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Multiculturalism has led some to tolerate or advocate various forms of <a href="/wiki/Woo" title="Woo">woo</a>, most often some form of <a href="/wiki/Pseudohistory" title="Pseudohistory">pseudohistory</a> concerning a minority group or crank <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropological</a> ideas. These ideas are sometimes, ironically, based on repackaged racial stereotypes and peddled to <a href="/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor" title="Hanlon's razor">ignorant but otherwise well-meaning</a> white <a href="/wiki/Moonbat" title="Moonbat">moonbats</a> looking to "discover the rich ethnic heritage" of some group. This has also in many cases led to what is termed in anti-<a href="/wiki/Racist" class="mw-redirect" title="Racist">racist</a> circles as "cultural appropriation" that often comes across as patronizing, even racist itself. Although, it is worth remembering that the political theory of multiculturalism in no way endorses doing this and in many ways could be seen as opposing the advocation of these ideas. </p><p>Examples include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afrocentrism" class="mw-redirect" title="Afrocentrism">Afrocentrism</a>, which posits that <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> was ruled by a black race and <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">Greco-Roman civilization</a> was descended from this region. If you say otherwise, you are obviously employing a "flawed" <a href="/wiki/Eurocentrism" title="Eurocentrism">Eurocentric</a> methodology instead of the correct Afrocentric methodology. Also, the sometimes overlapping <a href="/wiki/Melanin_theory" title="Melanin theory">melanin theory</a>, which claims melanin confers some kind of <a href="/wiki/Biological_determinism" title="Biological determinism">biological superiority</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_woo" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American woo">Native American woo</a>, such as the "plastic shamans".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nature_woo" title="Nature woo">nature woo</a> will sometimes incorporate these ideas.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noble_savage" title="Noble savage">Noble savage</a> <a href="/wiki/Stereotype" title="Stereotype">stereotypes</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">Pseudosciences</a> of non-white cultures being labeled as "<a href="/wiki/Folk_science" title="Folk science">local knowledge</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Other_ways_of_knowing" title="Other ways of knowing">other ways of knowing</a>".</li> <li>The idea of "Eastern knowledge" and its superiority to "Western knowledge". This is especially popular in <a href="/wiki/Alternative_medicine" title="Alternative medicine">alternative medicine</a>, in which "Eastern medicine", such as <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_Medicine" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional Chinese Medicine">Traditional Chinese Medicine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ayurveda" class="mw-redirect" title="Ayurveda">Ayurveda</a>, is touted as more "<a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_nature" title="Appeal to nature">natural</a>" than "<a href="/wiki/Western_medicine" title="Western medicine">Western medicine</a>". Expect the words "<a href="/wiki/Holistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Holistic">holistic</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Intuition" title="Intuition">intuitive</a>" to be used a lot. See also <a href="/wiki/Deepak_Chopra" title="Deepak Chopra">Deepak Chopra</a>.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li>Pope, Charles, Msgr. (May 15, 2011). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blog.adw.org/2011/05/multiculturalism-and-moral-relativism/">Is Multiculturalism Just Another Form of Moral Relativism?"</a> Archdiocese of Washington.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/alan-sokal-jean-bricmont-intellectual-impostures-economist-books-profile-2011/page/n1/mode/2up"><i>Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers' Abuse of Science</i></a> by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont (2011) — full text of the English translation of <i>Intellectual Impostures</i></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kenan Malik (17 March 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/17/multiculturalism-diversity-political-policy">"Multiculturalism undermines diversity"</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r2708880">/* Errors processing stylesheet [[:Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css]] (rev 2708880): • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 44 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 50 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 55 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽background⧼/code⧽ at line 64 character 14. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 96 character 9. • Invalid or unsupported value for property ⧼code⧽color⧼/code⧽ at line 100 character 9. • Invalid media query at line 138 character 8. */ .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFOccidental_Observer2010" class="citation news cs1">Occidental Observer (23 December 2010). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.webcitation.org/6c4UzoUoU">Kevin MacDonald: Jews play a "leading role" in promoting multiculturalism in Europe</a>".</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.webcitation.org%2F6c4UzoUoU+Kevin+MacDonald%3A+Jews+play+a+%22leading+role%22+in+promoting+multiculturalism+in+Europe%5D&rft.date=2010-12-23&rft.au=Occidental+Observer&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Frationalwiki.org%3AMulticulturalism" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_news" title="Template:Cite news">cite news</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">External link in <code class="cs1-code"><code class="cs1-code">|title=</code></code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#param_has_ext_link" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Holm2015-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-Holm2015_3-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r2708880"/><cite id="CITEREFLars_Holger_Holm2015" class="citation book cs1">Lars Holger Holm (9 March 2015). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mZe5CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA97">Hiding in Broad Daylight: An Analysis of the Political Radicalisation and Commercialisation of Artistic Modernism</a></i>. 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Breivik">Anders Behring Breivik</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan" class="extiw" title="wp:John Buchan" rel="nofollow">John Buchan</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div>    </div></div><div class="printfooter">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&oldid=2644222">https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Multiculturalism&oldid=2644222</a>"</div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Sociology" title="Category:Sociology">Sociology</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Culture" title="Category:Culture">Culture</a></li></ul></div><div 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