Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#1
Is Promoting multiculturalism's good for the British in the long run ?
And haw do we fix the mess now
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9252471/the-bradford-head-teacher-who-got-it-right-on-islam-and-education/
PS. Brian will probably flood this thread with silly bull sh....
But it would be good to have a proper discussion for a change ,,,if possible.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#2
I thought that multiculturalism was now discredited, Trevor Philips said as much when he was head of the Commission for Racial Equality some years back.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#3
I've replied to this on the "Reds" thread.
Roger
Brian Dixon
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#4
kleth,never mind the bull carp,take a good look around you.evan more so on your holiday abroad.
Guest 1301- Registered: 9 Jul 2014
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#5
I ask you (sighing, then grinding teeth) what possible point is there in multiculturalism? (I shall leave aside 'what the heck is that?' for the moment.) If all of us 'promote' it, will the world not become terribly boring terribly quickly? Why not, instead, promote out own culture, and thereby make ourselves worth visits from people of other cultures, whom we can then visit to experience their cultures? Uniformity, mind-numbing sameness, gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies. Vive la différence!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#6
I must admit that I am with Sophie on this one, the great joy of visiting other countries for me has always been about appreciating their ways.
Times have changed of course and we don't expect to see a French chap wearing a striped vest and beret with a string of onions round his neck whilst playing an accordion but we are all different in some ways.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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#7
Something written in 1960, before the word was invented -
ALL MIXED UP
You know this language that we speak,
is part German, Latin and part Greek
Celtic and Arabic all in a heap,
well amended by the people in the street
Choctaw gave us the word "okay";
"Vamose" is a word from Mexico way.
And all of this is a hint I suspect of what comes next.
Chorus:
I think that this whole world
Soon mama my whole wide world
Soon mama my whole world
Soon gonna be gettin' mixed up.
Soon mama my whole world
Soon mama my whole wide world
Soon mama my whole world
Soon gonna be gettin' mixed up.
I like Polish sausage, I like Spanish rice,
and pizza pie is also nice
Corn and beans from the Indians here
washed down by German beer
Marco Polo traveled by camel and pony,
he brought to Italy, the first macaroni
And you and I as well as we're able,
we put it all on the table
(Chorus)
There were no red-headed Irishmen
before the Vikings landed in Ireland
How many Romans had dark curly hair
before they brought slaves from Africa?
No race of man is completely pure,
nor is anyone's mind, that's for sure
The winds mix the dust of every land,
and so will woman and man.
(Chorus)
This doesn't mean we will all be the same,
We'll have different faces and different names
Long live many different kinds of races
It's difference of opinion that makes horse races
Just remember the rule about rules, brother
What could be right for one could be wrong for the other
And take a tip from La Belle France: "Viva la difference!"
(Chorus)
Words and Music by Pete Seeger (1960)
© 1965 (renewed) by Stormking Music Inc.