Multi cultural society.. is that a success formula or doomed to fail?

Question

Multi cultural society.. is that a success formula or doomed to fail?

Answer 1

A truly pluralist society is a difficult thing to achieve largely due to clashes in morality and tradition.

I'm yet to observe a society that is truly pluralist, however, I don't think one should be created because things would become acceptable on the grounds that they are cultural.

This would lead to a breakdown of law and order.

I think tolerant societies can exist, as low as they are tolerant and moral.

Answer 2

It will succeed IF there is something that unites all of the people, like common laws, government, and common values as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 3

Poster, read this.  

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/c...

We can get along, but not that way we are going...

Answer 4

Doomed to fail as we have less in common but more differences

Answer 5

This is a very touchy subject in Australia.

We are known as a multicultural society but it seems that when people come to this country from different cultures, we spend an awful lot of time and money getting to know and adapting these new cultures but I don't see hardly any time and money spent preserving our Australian culture!

I have yet to see this amount of attention lavished on our Indigenous People.

I wish more people knew how interesting and important this real Australian culture is!

Around the world native cultures are being forgotten in favor of bringing in the new! It's a real shame in my opinion..

Answer 6

A fact of life.

"Success" implies some particular thing one is striving for.

Maybe if you'd explained your question (if you actually have one), it would be possible to answer.

There's no reason to conclude multi-culturalism is doomed to fail; it's gone quite well lots of times in lots of places.

I like the diversity of where I live, as do many others who live here.

People never exposed to other cultures have a more limited view of humanity; they assume what all the arbitrary aspects of they know is universal; they find people who don't share those arbitrary ways of being as alien or not human.

They assume they don't share the things all humans share.

It's also more interesting. Bits of culture play off of each other, and people use them to combine and devleop new things.

Answer 7

As time goes on, we'll get used to it. It isn't doomed to fail because we have more things in common than we do differences.