Melanie Phillip's explains clearly what Multiculturism really means and what is doesn't. This is a philosophy which has been and continues to be at the very root of so many problems in the world today. It needs to be exposed for what it is:
Multiculturalism is a baleful creed which, far from bringing people together drives them apart. That is because multiculturalism is not a synonym for people from different cultures all getting along together. If this were so, it would be no more than a re-statement of how all decent and civilised societies should behave.
No, multiculturalism is the doctrine which says that no culture can ever claim precedence over any other. So there can be no hierarchy of values, and no society can uphold its historic traditions and values against any challenge. It is therefore by definition impossible for a multicultural society to uphold liberal values over their opposite – or, indeed, to uphold the fundamental democratic axiom of ‘one law for all’. It is also an oxymoron; for without an overarching set of cultural values to which everyone equally subscribes, there is no cultural glue to keep together a society -- which then disintegrates into a war of group against group, value against value and the strong versus the weak.
Or as the 20th century prophet Nietzsche proclaimed: The will to power! Witness the current government in Australia and what they are willing to do in order to stay in power and consider the impact that these compromises are going to have on our future.
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