As a person from Indonesia 🇮🇩 country with so many cultures. 1,300 ethnic groups and 700 regional languages. Can still be united as a single country. 😎multiculturalism is out great power
The protest against immigration is stemmed from fear and worry that people will not embrace Irish culture but will instead try to change or dilute it. Some people's mannerisms just don't feel Irish and it feels like a threat to our culture when some people don't get the craic or history
culture and history is not divorced from blood. why would i cry over some song about some genocide in africa? Loving your own people is tied to your bloodline. Only someone who doesnt love their own wouldnt understand this. Erin go bragh, Erin do na geals...
Interculturalism is a good thing on a world scale, because then there are different nations living in their own countries while respecting their neighbours. But not within a country, because it just divides society into subsocieties. World should be intercultural like it always was, but countries should be monocultural. Both racism/nazism and multi/inter culturalism are wrong.
It's true unless we talk about most non-western countries. Most country in the west were based on a singular culture but the countries that got their independence from a European nations (mostly Africa and Asia) have borders drawn with a ruler leading to a separation of people of the same culture and different cultures in the same country. In Africa, you have a majority Arab in the North but there is actual minorities like Berbers or Nubians that aren't insignificant (around 25% of Algeria and 40% of Morocco's population are Berbers for example). In Sub-saharan Africa, you have thousands of ethnic groups with no clear majority. TLDR: Monoculturalism is good already homogenous countries like the West but dangerous in heterogeneous countries like in Africa and Asia due to a significant minority that cannot be erased (or it would be ethnic cleansing/ genocide which isn't the best thing to happen to any culture).
@@rautenbruder1426 All people do that, even you and I. I recommend “The Reighteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion”, by Jonathan Haidt.
There is no need to reinvent society. One culture, plain and simple. It is also really unfair to the natives of a countyr and culture to expect them to having only to live in a multicultural society while all the other members of that society also have homelands exclusivly to their own culture. It is simply just a great robery of european countries.
Singapore is the most ethnically diverse little country I've ever lived in after living in various parts of the world, yet they seem to lack anywhere close to the degree of racial/ethnic strife and polarization you mentioned compared to other countries like the US and UK. Yet the country doesn't seem to emphasize diversity so much as unity: "S-IN-GAPORE! Goooo Singapore!" Everyone there seems proud to call themselves Singaporean whether they're of Chinese ancestry, Indian, Japanese, Norwegian, Thai, Nigerian, American, Canadian, Irish, Scottish, Russian, Swedish, Malaysian, Iranian, etc. All the Singaporean citizens also seem to strongly share the subset of values and ideals that matter most in terms of cooperating as citizens. For example, every Singaporean I met regardless of their ancestry tends to be very strongly capitalist with a shared education that promotes capitalist values and ideals, including even teaching students starting from junior high school how to develop strong entrepreneurial skills. So in this sense, Singapore always seemed more "monocultural" to me in the ways that counted to promote the best interethnic relations than even the least ethnically diverse cities of the US where even the least ethnically diverse population can be radically divided and polarized in terms of sociopolitical values and ideals. The Singaporean government also heavily regulates speech, media, right to assembly, and education. Combined with its extremely small geographic size, I suspect this helps in getting the citizens to largely think alike with respect to sharing the same values and ideals and vision for the nation.
For your information, I have a South American mother and my father is Austrian. I have lived in Austria all my life and I love my country. Unfortunately, as a Schwarzkopf, I am often seen as a foreigner, although I myself am an Austrian like the other Austrians. Unfortunately, in Austria, for example, as a person with black hair, you are still seen as a foreigner, even though you are also Austrian. Even if some don't hope to admit it, I know how they think in their subconscious. This hurts me and sometimes I ask myself who am I or am I really homeless as a mixed child. Why do I have to pay for something that I can't do anything about. I have not chosen my appearance. I can only convince people every day with my "Austrian" behavior that I deserve a place in Austria. Sometimes I even forget how I look and then I look in the mirror and doubts of life come again. Paradoxically, I myself have the attitude that multicultural societies do not work, but with such an appearance I could not go to a right-wing party, because there I am seen part of the problem.
The world truly needs to become more mature, and differentiate between multi-cultural and multi-racial, with the former being the actual problem and not the latter. I am saddened to hear of your struggles, friend. Best of luck
As a person from Indonesia 🇮🇩 country with so many cultures. 1,300 ethnic groups and 700 regional languages. Can still be united as a single country. 😎multiculturalism is out great power
I think that when a specific set of different cultures live together for long enough in one location, the older generations in different groups start to dislike the other groups, and the younger generations all start to form a new culture, composed of, yet different from the preceding cultures. I don't think multicultural society is actually a thing, as different cultures bleed into each other over time.
I also think that if you're going to have interculturalism, with multiple cultures in a single geographic region, then the number of different cultures should be limited to like three or four maybe.
Well done on a well- explained and scientific approach. You explained why labelling people is reductionist and over simplifies to the point of being counter productive for society.
Your intercultural society is a good dream. It will not be successful because humans are by nature untrusting of others outside of their groups. Dialogue will only work to a certain point before the old fears and distrust returns. The best thing that can be done in a society made up of different cultures and languages and customs and beliefs is to follow the host nations rule of law and to tolerate each other. And even this is just a fragile alliance that could be easily broken with conflict and infighting. There can be no real mixing unless there are generations upon generations of inter-cultural breeding (over hundreds of years) until the original peoples have died out and their generational multi racial offspring homogenize and form a new culture/language and peoples.
@@pribyslavkomensky7103 The core issue is that it doesn't work. Just because you put a bunch of different animals in a open space together and ask them to get along, it won't work. You can at best tolerate one another and MAYBE after a long time of communication there can be some mutual commonality or respect. BUT it will be extremely hard to CONSISTENTLY develop true trust and a full embrace of each other. Some cultures will mingle better together than others, for example northern Chinese and southern Chinese have different regional cultures but they can mingle because they largely share similar belief systems, religious beliefs, skin color, facial structure, food preferences, and other such things. But when you have very different backgrounds, this CAN often led to distrust and a lack of understanding between the two peoples. MAYBE it can be changed with more and more generational multi-racial interbreeding, but this will take a very long time. In summary, it doesn't work because many people don't want to mix with others for fear that they will erode their own cultural identity.
@@multiplemike5021 This is a complex issue, and I like how you explained it thoughtfully. But now I am curious if you thought about a solution, too. Don't get me wrong, you described the problem of "very different cultures together" in detail, and it could be used as an argument against multiculturalism - I can imagine very similar sentences being used in a political debate. The thing is, I see the "solution" as problematic, or maybe even more problematic than the identified problem itself. Doesn't this just lead to "Ok, let's not let these people in" or "Let's force them out of OUR country" solutions? There is a counterargument that migration is natural and has been happening for a very long time, and our past generations could be migrants too. Also, if you decide not to grant access to enter the state to some people in need, you will deal with a moral issue.
@@pribyslavkomensky7103 The complexity is added to the fact that we are now living in the modern world and not the ancient one. In the distant past, and even several hundred years ago, it was much more feasible to keep different groups outside of the land controlled by the group in power. You see examples of this throughout history in Asia and across Europe. At the same time, you are right that migration is natural and has been happening for a very long time, and that many countries are built on past generations of migrants. The difference is that in the past, the migrants came in slowly since they didn't have the technology to come to new places quickly. This results in gradual assimilation and eventually a completely reforming of culture. Think about the English whose DNA is actually comprised of Dutch, Germanic , french, welsh, scottish, irish, Roman blood among others. Their transition into a peoples with distinct culture took a LONG TIME, several hundred years. But in todays world, this slow, natural, gradual migration is not possible anymore and neither can once dominate majorities in places like USA just simply force new groups out. 1. Because even if they did, these new groups can just easily get back in with the advances in technology today. 2. Physical war is not a great option anymore either because the death toll would weaken the population of both fighting parties and they could lose their grip on the land they are holding onto to other invading nations. Also there is the fear of nuclear world. So that is why I said multiculturalism eventually just leads to infighting after a period of tolerance because a great number of people don't want to mingle. They want to live their own way of life and they don't want this way threatened by the arrival of people who are different from their own. A place with many different cultures will have the effect of diluting and weakening the culture of what was originally the host nation. Think Canada and how the STRONG multiculturalism is making it's hard to imagine the country having a TRULY united cultural identity. Think about why places like the UK are really strict on immigration, because they don't want to lose the culture of the majority race in power. I completely understand it and I don't blame them one bit. My solution? I don't know if there is one that doesn't eventually (sooner or later) lead to some kind of conflict. Then after the conflict is resolved, a new understanding emerges for a while and there is peace for a while. Many times this conflict resolution is violent war and hard as that is to imagine, it is a natural progression of human existence. The cycle of war followed by peace will never end because the core of human nature has not changed.
@@pribyslavkomensky7103 also, I think we are dealing with what is moral now because we are in a modern context. The ancient world didn't have as many moral qualms. They were fighting for territory and survival. Then to hold onto land and resources once they secured it. Morals are things you think about after you've won and established and consolidated your power. Moreover, each cultural group has their own definition of moral behavior which isn't always the same. Another issue.
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As a person from Indonesia 🇮🇩 country with so many cultures. 1,300 ethnic groups and 700 regional languages. Can still be united as a single country. 😎multiculturalism is out great power
The protest against immigration is stemmed from fear and worry that people will not embrace Irish culture but will instead try to change or dilute it. Some people's mannerisms just don't feel Irish and it feels like a threat to our culture when some people don't get the craic or history
culture and history is not divorced from blood. why would i cry over some song about some genocide in africa? Loving your own people is tied to your bloodline. Only someone who doesnt love their own wouldnt understand this. Erin go bragh, Erin do na geals...
Interculturalism is a good thing on a world scale, because then there are different nations living in their own countries while respecting their neighbours. But not within a country, because it just divides society into subsocieties. World should be intercultural like it always was, but countries should be monocultural. Both racism/nazism and multi/inter culturalism are wrong.
interesting perspective!
It's true unless we talk about most non-western countries. Most country in the west were based on a singular culture but the countries that got their independence from a European nations (mostly Africa and Asia) have borders drawn with a ruler leading to a separation of people of the same culture and different cultures in the same country. In Africa, you have a majority Arab in the North but there is actual minorities like Berbers or Nubians that aren't insignificant (around 25% of Algeria and 40% of Morocco's population are Berbers for example). In Sub-saharan Africa, you have thousands of ethnic groups with no clear majority.
TLDR: Monoculturalism is good already homogenous countries like the West but dangerous in heterogeneous countries like in Africa and Asia due to a significant minority that cannot be erased (or it would be ethnic cleansing/ genocide which isn't the best thing to happen to any culture).
@@GormMedia I'm glad to see that you look at other views and don't close your eyes to other opinions like many left-wing people do.
@@rautenbruder1426
All people do that, even you and I.
I recommend “The Reighteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion”, by Jonathan Haidt.
Thank you for telling the truth
There is no need to reinvent society. One culture, plain and simple. It is also really unfair to the natives of a countyr and culture to expect them to having only to live in a multicultural society while all the other members of that society also have homelands exclusivly to their own culture. It is simply just a great robery of european countries.
Singapore is the most ethnically diverse little country I've ever lived in after living in various parts of the world, yet they seem to lack anywhere close to the degree of racial/ethnic strife and polarization you mentioned compared to other countries like the US and UK. Yet the country doesn't seem to emphasize diversity so much as unity: "S-IN-GAPORE! Goooo Singapore!" Everyone there seems proud to call themselves Singaporean whether they're of Chinese ancestry, Indian, Japanese, Norwegian, Thai, Nigerian, American, Canadian, Irish, Scottish, Russian, Swedish, Malaysian, Iranian, etc.
All the Singaporean citizens also seem to strongly share the subset of values and ideals that matter most in terms of cooperating as citizens. For example, every Singaporean I met regardless of their ancestry tends to be very strongly capitalist with a shared education that promotes capitalist values and ideals, including even teaching students starting from junior high school how to develop strong entrepreneurial skills.
So in this sense, Singapore always seemed more "monocultural" to me in the ways that counted to promote the best interethnic relations than even the least ethnically diverse cities of the US where even the least ethnically diverse population can be radically divided and polarized in terms of sociopolitical values and ideals.
The Singaporean government also heavily regulates speech, media, right to assembly, and education. Combined with its extremely small geographic size, I suspect this helps in getting the citizens to largely think alike with respect to sharing the same values and ideals and vision for the nation.
the psychology behind this is actually quite interesting !
thanks for the comment! we loved sharing !
For your information, I have a South American mother and my father is Austrian. I have lived in Austria all my life and I love my country. Unfortunately, as a Schwarzkopf, I am often seen as a foreigner, although I myself am an Austrian like the other Austrians. Unfortunately, in Austria, for example, as a person with black hair, you are still seen as a foreigner, even though you are also Austrian. Even if some don't hope to admit it, I know how they think in their subconscious. This hurts me and sometimes I ask myself who am I or am I really homeless as a mixed child. Why do I have to pay for something that I can't do anything about. I have not chosen my appearance. I can only convince people every day with my "Austrian" behavior that I deserve a place in Austria. Sometimes I even forget how I look and then I look in the mirror and doubts of life come again. Paradoxically, I myself have the attitude that multicultural societies do not work, but with such an appearance I could not go to a right-wing party, because there I am seen part of the problem.
Amen my friend
The world truly needs to become more mature, and differentiate between multi-cultural and multi-racial, with the former being the actual problem and not the latter. I am saddened to hear of your struggles, friend. Best of luck
@@Peter-sp4dd Thank you
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@@aewcontrol2984 Hitler had blue eyes
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As a person from Indonesia 🇮🇩 country with so many cultures. 1,300 ethnic groups and 700 regional languages. Can still be united as a single country. 😎multiculturalism is out great power
😂she’s totally right and my teacher is totally wrong!!!!
I think that when a specific set of different cultures live together for long enough in one location, the older generations in different groups start to dislike the other groups, and the younger generations all start to form a new culture, composed of, yet different from the preceding cultures. I don't think multicultural society is actually a thing, as different cultures bleed into each other over time.
I also think that if you're going to have interculturalism, with multiple cultures in a single geographic region, then the number of different cultures should be limited to like three or four maybe.
Well done on a well- explained and scientific approach. You explained why labelling people is reductionist and over simplifies to the point of being counter productive for society.
Thank you so much!
Your intercultural society is a good dream. It will not be successful because humans are by nature untrusting of others outside of their groups. Dialogue will only work to a certain point before the old fears and distrust returns. The best thing that can be done in a society made up of different cultures and languages and customs and beliefs is to follow the host nations rule of law and to tolerate each other. And even this is just a fragile alliance that could be easily broken with conflict and infighting. There can be no real mixing unless there are generations upon generations of inter-cultural breeding (over hundreds of years) until the original peoples have died out and their generational multi racial offspring homogenize and form a new culture/language and peoples.
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No this was kind of a poor take. It puts the blame on one side instead of pointing out wha'ts really wrong with multicultralism.
Can you elaborate on what is really wrong with it? I personally came to the conclusion that she explained the biggest issues very accurately.
@@pribyslavkomensky7103 The core issue is that it doesn't work. Just because you put a bunch of different animals in a open space together and ask them to get along, it won't work. You can at best tolerate one another and MAYBE after a long time of communication there can be some mutual commonality or respect. BUT it will be extremely hard to CONSISTENTLY develop true trust and a full embrace of each other. Some cultures will mingle better together than others, for example northern Chinese and southern Chinese have different regional cultures but they can mingle because they largely share similar belief systems, religious beliefs, skin color, facial structure, food preferences, and other such things. But when you have very different backgrounds, this CAN often led to distrust and a lack of understanding between the two peoples. MAYBE it can be changed with more and more generational multi-racial interbreeding, but this will take a very long time. In summary, it doesn't work because many people don't want to mix with others for fear that they will erode their own cultural identity.
@@multiplemike5021 This is a complex issue, and I like how you explained it thoughtfully. But now I am curious if you thought about a solution, too. Don't get me wrong, you described the problem of "very different cultures together" in detail, and it could be used as an argument against multiculturalism - I can imagine very similar sentences being used in a political debate. The thing is, I see the "solution" as problematic, or maybe even more problematic than the identified problem itself. Doesn't this just lead to "Ok, let's not let these people in" or "Let's force them out of OUR country" solutions? There is a counterargument that migration is natural and has been happening for a very long time, and our past generations could be migrants too. Also, if you decide not to grant access to enter the state to some people in need, you will deal with a moral issue.
@@pribyslavkomensky7103 The complexity is added to the fact that we are now living in the modern world and not the ancient one. In the distant past, and even several hundred years ago, it was much more feasible to keep different groups outside of the land controlled by the group in power. You see examples of this throughout history in Asia and across Europe. At the same time, you are right that migration is natural and has been happening for a very long time, and that many countries are built on past generations of migrants. The difference is that in the past, the migrants came in slowly since they didn't have the technology to come to new places quickly. This results in gradual assimilation and eventually a completely reforming of culture. Think about the English whose DNA is actually comprised of Dutch, Germanic , french, welsh, scottish, irish, Roman blood among others. Their transition into a peoples with distinct culture took a LONG TIME, several hundred years. But in todays world, this slow, natural, gradual migration is not possible anymore and neither can once dominate majorities in places like USA just simply force new groups out. 1. Because even if they did, these new groups can just easily get back in with the advances in technology today. 2. Physical war is not a great option anymore either because the death toll would weaken the population of both fighting parties and they could lose their grip on the land they are holding onto to other invading nations. Also there is the fear of nuclear world. So that is why I said multiculturalism eventually just leads to infighting after a period of tolerance because a great number of people don't want to mingle. They want to live their own way of life and they don't want this way threatened by the arrival of people who are different from their own. A place with many different cultures will have the effect of diluting and weakening the culture of what was originally the host nation. Think Canada and how the STRONG multiculturalism is making it's hard to imagine the country having a TRULY united cultural identity. Think about why places like the UK are really strict on immigration, because they don't want to lose the culture of the majority race in power. I completely understand it and I don't blame them one bit. My solution? I don't know if there is one that doesn't eventually (sooner or later) lead to some kind of conflict. Then after the conflict is resolved, a new understanding emerges for a while and there is peace for a while. Many times this conflict resolution is violent war and hard as that is to imagine, it is a natural progression of human existence. The cycle of war followed by peace will never end because the core of human nature has not changed.
@@pribyslavkomensky7103 also, I think we are dealing with what is moral now because we are in a modern context. The ancient world didn't have as many moral qualms. They were fighting for territory and survival. Then to hold onto land and resources once they secured it. Morals are things you think about after you've won and established and consolidated your power. Moreover, each cultural group has their own definition of moral behavior which isn't always the same. Another issue.