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What is meant by multiculturalism?

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Parsley3 Wed 04-Oct-23 15:36:44

Whether multiculturalism works or doesn't work is up for debate, but what do people mean when they use the term?
The definition I like is this one.
Multiculturalism is a situation in which all the different cultural or racial groups in a society have equal rights and opportunities an none is ignored or regarded as unimportant.
www.collinsdictionary.com
Why would anyone not want that? I can only think that the meaning of multiculturalism must be open to many interpretations.

growstuff Sat 14-Oct-23 14:18:03

Whole cities? Which ones?

growstuff Sat 14-Oct-23 14:21:37

I was born and brought up on Merseyside. There were always areas I would have avoided after dark - and that had nothing to do with multiculturalism.

M0nica Sat 14-Oct-23 15:27:45

*Allsorts, which cities are no go areas? Do you really mean whole cities?

There have always been areas in most big cities, where the police patrolled in pairs, not many not large, but to pretend that there was some mythical time in our past when everywhere was safe is rubbish.

I was a 60s chick and lived in central London and I was well aware of where and when it was safe to walk alone at night and which areas were best avoided.

Allsorts Sat 14-Oct-23 15:41:18

Growstuff, no not whole cities but whole large areas and districts, there has always been shady areas even growing up, this is on a different scale., but if others have positive experiences and are not affected that’s great. In theory it should work but after eight years working within such an area I had to leave because in practise it didn’t. That’s all I’m going to say, everyone working and contributing to Great Britain or any country really is as valuable as anyone else, I don’t need to be told that. The answer I gave to the question is just mine I don’t expect it to be others.

growstuff Sat 14-Oct-23 15:47:19

Allsorts Thanks for confirming that it's not whole cities, as claimed by "There are cities in UK that are no go areas".

I can assure you that when I was growing up there were areas of Liverpool where I wouldn't even have gone during the daytime. Even the police were wary. Maybe you could identify an area of the UK which is now "on a different scale", as you have claimed.

MerylStreep Sun 15-Oct-23 13:04:21

Denmark have this idea to create multiculturalism.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12627493/Danish-government-accused-racism-plan-break-ghettos-non-Western-immigrant-communities-bid-boost-integration-cities.html.

Allsorts Tue 17-Oct-23 07:45:58

Growstuff. I am not going to name where I live to score a point. In the street where I live we all get on together, no problem, a few miles away a different story. Read the papers and in front of you will see how it most certainly isn’t working at the moment. It was obvious that not whole cities have the problem, parts of it, thought that was clear.