Victory for Multiculurialism
An article about Europe struggling with Islamic reluctance to integrate writes:
Jonathan Friedman, an American living in Sweden, mentions that the so-called Integration Act of 1997 proclaimed that “Sweden is a Multicultural society.” The Act implicitly states that Sweden doesn’t have a history, only the various ethnic groups that live there. Native Swedes have been reduced to just another ethnic group in Sweden, with no more claim to the country than the Somalis who arrived there last Thursday. As Friedman puts it: “In Sweden, it’s almost as if the state has sided with the immigrants against the Swedish working class.”
The implicit argument in multiculturalism is that no one culture is superior to any other culture. This is argument is patently false. Cultures that places liberalism before any other set of values is categorically superior to any other kind of culture man has produced. This is true for the simple reason that this kind of culture is the most accommodating of its peoples traditions. By inculcating it’s citizens into a cultural ideology that everyone has a set of basic rights guaranteeing individual liberty those in that culture may exercise that liberty by participating in the customs and traditions of the culture of their choosing. The only customs and traditions they may not exercise are those that come in direct conflict with the fundamental cultural values of liberalism. This prohibition allows for the maximization of personal expression and in turn what allows a liberal culture to be more accomodating towards many different traditions.
Culture’s that embrace liberalism will always be superior to a culture that denies individual liberty. Those that celebrate multiculturalism over liberalism will very quickly learn just how superior liberal culture is once they live in a culture were the tyrant forbids them from participating in their traditions.
To be frank, given the success of countries that embrace a liberal culture I simply can not see how their can be any question of their superiority.
March 18th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
ya see, the problem with islam and christianity back in the day (as in the dark ages) is that they are political religions. That is to say that they think a theocracy should be established. Muhammad turned medina into the political capital of his empire. The vatican was a lot like that a few hundred years ago. So, i say one down one to go.