What is your outlook on multiculturalism?

Question

What is your outlook on multiculturalism?

Answer 1

The first answer is superb.  I would say that, as he said the U.S. is indeed a melting pot and people bring with them their former loyalty to wherever it is they came from.  But the problem is when a particular culture becomes isolationists and separates itself from what they should becoming and that is part of America.  I see this happening in the area where I live.  Whole sections of a huge city only cater to a particular culture.  This can breed among other things racism, hostility and other things that work against us as a united people.

Answer 2

For a society to be healthy and flourish, the people who live there need to have a common set of values and shared history.  This is not to say that people who come to live in America should be forced to abandon their own culture and history, but they should embrace American culture and history and make it the primary guide for their lives.  The current push for multiculturalism tries to say that no culture is better than another and that America should openly embrace all cultural views equally.  If cultures are all equal, then there is no good or bad, no social structure better than another, and no reason for any nation to exist.  Do we really believe that all cultures are no better than the traditional American culture?  Yes, this nation has been built by people from all sorts of cultural backgrounds, but traditionally, these people have all adopted American values and ideals over their former cultural loyalties.  Now, we are expected to change America to suit the other people who want what America has to offer, but doesn't want to abandon their old ways of doing things.  I say poo on that!

Answer 3

I support it wholeheartedly.

Answer 4

Well said, Stupid Should Hurt.  I don't have anything to add.