RE: Is multiculturalism a bad thing for Europe?
December 21, 2013 at 12:19 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2013 at 12:30 am by theyear12013.)
I think we agree. Its the humbling process. I have 1/4 Irish human ancestry and until I lived abroad -- I was always militant about the 'abuse' my 1/4 Irishness took from the American Wasp elite. I'm also a 1/4 English WASP human ancestry so it didn't make much sense ;-), but I realize now at some level what was done to the Irish in America was a humbling process that was necessary to create the new American identity -- devoid of smaller tribalism -- and immersed fully in the largest practical human institution with modern military technology: the nation-state.
But this gets to an interesting question -- why did multiculturalism come into being in Europe because before the 1960s it was not multicultural. Colonial guilt is not a sufficient answer. How did colonial guilt infect the academy and media?
But this gets to an interesting question -- why did multiculturalism come into being in Europe because before the 1960s it was not multicultural. Colonial guilt is not a sufficient answer. How did colonial guilt infect the academy and media?
