ChatterBank1 min ago
Multiculturalism ?
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Speaking largely about France but with his eye on the greater Europe, the French intellectual and writer Alain Finkielkraut in his recent book, claims that Western civilization is being ripped apart by multiculturalism.
Is he correct?
Is he correct?
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Who wins this argument from exactly two years ago?
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v_e - note that reference to curry again!!
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v_e - note that reference to curry again!!
It's pretty strong stuff from PW, and he wins the argument hands down, can't say I would go along with it in its entirety - Britain being ethnically cleansed etc. - but I love the idea of him being arrested for reading out aloud and anonymously, a Winston Churchill passage (allegedly - I haven't checked) from 1899.
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In v_e's link, Thomas Sowell points to the lack of any 'multiculty' at the time of India's partition - or even now. But the divisions are not only between different religions, but are integral within individual ones themselves - Sunni v. Shia an obvious example, but I read: ' In the classic anthropological study of economic modernization From Field to Factory about building a bicycle factory in West Bengal in the 1960s, Morton Kass discovered that regardless of hiring policy, the employees would quickly reorganize themselves into departments subtly sorted according to caste, thus preserving traditional social structure within a modern economic context' !!
Been reading a bit more on Thomas Sowell, a few quotes;
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
… brilliant!!
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
… brilliant!!
