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The Trouble with Multiculturism

Roy323 Wrote: Jun 21, 2012 2:14 PM

None-That pretty well sums up the amount of validity I find in your definition of "multiculturalism"-I've been one-half of a bi-racial inferno for 40+ years and if nothing else, I've "learned to live with it" and neither my Wife nor I have made any particular effort to impart ANY "culture" to the off-spring. Now I'm sure they have absorbed certain parts of "culture" but being an American has been/IS a big part of their being!

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The Trouble with Multiculturism

Back in the day, when I was a newspaper columnist in Denver, representatives of the local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League paid a visit. Over coffee, they told the opinion editor and me that they had a program, “A World of Difference,” that “celebrates America’s diversity.” They asked for our editorial support. The editor and I had the same reaction: Would it not be better to celebrate all the things we have in common, all the things that unite Americans of whatever ethnic or religious backgrounds? Our friends left the meeting mightily miffed.

At the time, I viewed such initiatives...

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