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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

8:12PM

Saturīgs komentārs nesenajiem ES līderu izteikumiem par "neizdevušos multikulturālismu".

"Politicians err when they claim that normative ideas of multiculturalism shape the social fact of cultural and religious diversity: such diversity would be present with or without a theory to cope with it. Nor are state policies shaped by those ideas, which tend to be recent in origin. Quite to the contrary, each European country has followed well-traveled pathways for dealing with diversity. Methods designed to accommodate sub-national religious blocs are now being adapted and applied to Muslim immigrants. Far from newfangled, misguided policies of multiculturalism, these distinct strategies represent the continuation of long-standing, nation-specific ways of recognizing and managing diversity."

- John R. Bowen, Europeans Against Multiculturalism

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