What is wrong with multiculturalism? 

Author Justas Stankevičius

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multiculturalism is an ideology that is understood as a value among left-wing elite politicians who are often associated with George Soros. A great example of this is Hillary Clinton and her election campaign in 2016. Their cooperation is evidenced not only by leaked documents or the strong support of the Open Society Foundation for her election not just by funding, but also by the using a “multicultural society card” in every possible way. However, multiculturalism is not seen so optimistically by others. 

The public security situation in Western countries has completely changed due to mass migration flows. An example of this is Germany, where the local women population started to feel significantly insecure during the “refugee crisis”. With mass migration flows, the cultural and religious environment changes: migrants develop side by side, thus maintaining their identity rather than assimilating. However, the European political elite has long denied this fact. This attitude of elite led to the fact that for several years the most popular name for children in Berlin is Muhammad. “Everywhere in the West where mass migration flows have occurred, there has been an outbreak of violence” said one of PragerU’s interlocutors. Paris, once known as “la plus belle ville du monde” (“the most beautiful city in the world”) today is also characterized by anti-Semitic attacks by economic migrants from Muslim countries.

Another fact is that in 2019 alone 53.000 economic migrants in Paris lived in homemade tents. In Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a former German foreign minister declared Germany a “nation of immigrants and it will remain so”, adding that “there are no half or real Germans at all”. Who cares about public safety in Britain or Sweden, when people who dare to speak out against mass migration are punished instead of real criminals?

Myth busted: are critics of multiculturalism just far right politicians? 

Former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has criticized mass migration saying that the promotion of multiculturalism has made London a “European capital of cheap labor” and that this damaged the quality of life of local population. Even liberal European politicians acknowledge that multiculturalism is a mistake. In 2011 Angela Merkel the German chancellor who encouraged the arrival of economic migrants to Europe eventually admitted that it was wrong by saying “multiculturalism has completely failed”. In the same year, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy also said the multicultural Europe project was a “mistake” adding “the truth is that in all our democracies we were too concerned about the identity of newcomers and not enough about the identity of the host country”. Former British Minister David Cameron agreed that “multiculturalism is dead”. This proves that multiculturalism is not a matter of the political left or right, it is a matter of common sense. 

Not all waves of migrants carry only problems. Before the outbreak of World War II, many Jewish artists and scientists fled to the United States including Albert Einstein or Arnold Schoenberg. Undoubtedly such Jewish refugees have enriched both economic and cultural or academic life in the United States. 

Migration can only be healthy if we choose quality over quantity. Just image if universities would take students in quotas instead of quality of certain aspects. Assessing multiculturalism as a value is not in itself rational due to the arguments already mentioned. Fox News reporter Tucker Carlson who leans to the political right doesn’t oppose to migration as such. It must be emphasized that talking about migration is by no means racism or hatred, it is a sensitive and responsible topic that needs to be discussed.