Ethnocentrism

[Anomalocaris]

I've never heard anyone argue that all countries should be multicultural. Only western countries.

Why would multiculturalism be good for the west, but no one else..or..if you prefer, why would a person arguing for multiculturalism think so?

i think he is arguing the west should not embrace multiculturalism because no one else appears to be doing so.

My answer is china and india has operated melting pots of culture through their entire histories, only they do it even more messily and on even less forgiving terms for new participants.    the last 250 years is an aberration.   In the next 100 years the world will return to something closer to the relative economic power that prevailed during most of the last 2000 years.  the west  can either embrace multiculturalism now, ahead of the curve and create a melting pot on its own terms, or it can reject reject multiculturalism now, and fall behind the curve and become a insignificant cobstituent of a melting pot set up on the terms of china and india over the next 100 years.

The truth is in western civilization is less than 10% of human civilization.