RE: Question: Is abuse and torture from exorcisms on the rise in the U.K.?
July 4, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Um, dumb question here. In the article that Welsh Cake provided it said " under the "doctrine of state multiculturalism", different cultures have been encouraged to live separate lives." then it said ""We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values."
Building a stronger sense of national and local identity holds "the key to achieving true cohesion" by allowing people to say "I am a Muslim, I am a Hindu, I am a Christian, but I am a Londoner... too", he said."
I'm coming in late on the game here and I don't know the history of this. Did (or does) the "doctrine of state multiculturalism" (what ever that is) mean that people were/are allowed to follow their own law? And what does it mean (specifically, in the case of the article) to "provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong" ?
I'm not trying to be nosy. I actually am interested in the way other modern countries do things. In many ways the Brits (sorry I just couldn't resist) are ahead of the U.S. in development. You are going through things that we will go through sometime in the future. It's interesting to not only see the things we will have to deal with soon with but also to see how other countries have or are handling it, (then learn from your mistakes and go off and (in a lovely creative fashion of course) do some of our own mistakes).
Have a happy 4th of......I mean happy day you got rid of the Americans and the Americans got rid of you!
Hee, hee.
Building a stronger sense of national and local identity holds "the key to achieving true cohesion" by allowing people to say "I am a Muslim, I am a Hindu, I am a Christian, but I am a Londoner... too", he said."
I'm coming in late on the game here and I don't know the history of this. Did (or does) the "doctrine of state multiculturalism" (what ever that is) mean that people were/are allowed to follow their own law? And what does it mean (specifically, in the case of the article) to "provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong" ?
I'm not trying to be nosy. I actually am interested in the way other modern countries do things. In many ways the Brits (sorry I just couldn't resist) are ahead of the U.S. in development. You are going through things that we will go through sometime in the future. It's interesting to not only see the things we will have to deal with soon with but also to see how other countries have or are handling it, (then learn from your mistakes and go off and (in a lovely creative fashion of course) do some of our own mistakes).
Have a happy 4th of......I mean happy day you got rid of the Americans and the Americans got rid of you!
Hee, hee.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
