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"Tribalism" is what government policy on Multiculturalism is - promoting the difference between seperate 'tribes'.

Nope it's saying that the state/government will not promote the cultural mores of just one "tribe". You of course feel that the cultural mores of your tribe are superior and should be promoted by the state .

Methinks you are somewhat taken in.

Do you know what "diversity" means?

Look in any dictionary if not.

On home office site (and other gov sites) you'll find things like:

Promoting diversity
Encouraging a positive public climate
Promoting diversity in government functions
Promoting diversity in education
Monitoring and evaluating diversity

How exactly does "promoting diversity" mean treat everybody the same?

What do you think promoting diversity means? To most of us it just means that you encourage those who would not in the past have applied to, for example, certain posts to do so. To you it no doubt means that "whites" shouldn't apply .

No - that is so-called "positive discrimination" - not "promoting diversity" - try again.

You said there was no such thing and discriminating in favour of any one group can be seen as +ve if you belong to that group.

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No - that is so-called "positive discrimination" - not "promoting diversity" - try again.

You said there was no such thing and discriminating in favour of any one group can be seen as +ve if you belong to that group.

Yes there is no such thing as "positive" discrimination - as it discriminates against others - which is why I wrote "so-called".

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Originally posted by ugetmi:
Because the aim of multi-culturalism is that different cultures are encouraged to co-exist and respect each other's cultural differences. People of a minority culture are not asked or pressured into assimilating to the pre-existing and/or majority culture.

You can't ask people to assimilate their race or skin colour, as it's impossible.

That's the theory anyway!

no it isn't, otherwise you wouldn't have interracial marriages.

Similar cultures can assimilate well.

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Because it is nonsense and has been shown not to work

Not all cultures are equal, in fact British culture is far superior to other new recent cultures and therefore our cultural values and norms should supersede all the others when in conflict.

If British culture were superior we'd have no problems at all but we do. No culture is static, it is forever evolving. Therefore we should evolve too, that is what life is all about.

In the government department in which I worked during the Thatcher years, the second in comand had the job title 'Champion for Diversity'.

The first instruction the champion circulated was that we should all begin our emails giving out own names and designations and that no email should contain more than 100 words. The second instruction was that all phone calls should be answered by the third ring.

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Originally posted by dandini:
Britain is a Christian country of which the laws and customs are based upon.

I beg to differ most of our legal system is derived from laws formulated during Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Norse rule. Christian influence on the law came later and didn't essentially add much except to make the clergy above the law (they came under jurisdiction of Rome) which they certainly abused to gather every coin they could. Christian imposed laws such as "every serf being duty bound to give a days free work per week to the local Abbey/Monastery" didn't help anyone except make the clergy richer. And of course Serfdom itself was a form of slavery invented by christianity shortly after being adopted as the Roman Empires state religion.

That state of affairs continued until Henry decided to end it when he confiscated all the wealth from the church. And how the church cried - one robber baron robbing another.

What else can we thank the christianity for:

The suppression of knowledge and learning
The divine rule of Kings
The Dark Ages
The Inquisition
A significant part in the spread of the Black Death

Yep, it makes one proud that christianity had its grubby, greed, and powermongering hands on our development for so long.