Does Multiculturalism Work?

[Ken-1122]

Please could you define, "respect the differences" to give me a greater understanding of the meaning?

The family who lives next door to me; though they share my skin color and race, they have a different culture than I, different religion, even different political beliefs than I. Yet we remain good friends because we have respect for each other’s differences. Does this make sense to you?

 

[Ken-1122]

I am quite indifferent to that. There is nothing particularly special about white folk like me.

White is not a culture.

 

[Running2win]

White is not a culture.

It depends on where you live. No? Just like Black or Red... Kemosabe.

 

[A_Thinker]

I like white people and want to see white nations retain their white majorities.

Sort of a slide back from Christ's teachings, eh ... ???

 

[Ken-1122]

It depends on where you live. No? Just like Black or Red... Kemosabe.

where is white a culture?

 

[comana]

I love meeting people of other cultures and discovering their food, their music, their dance and all the other customs.

I completely agree.

My life has been greatly enriched by meeting people with culture different from my own. I can't imagine seeing this great big world and all the different people, customs, food, language, etc. and not wanting to experience some of that and get outside of one's own small box.

 

[JackRT]

White is not a culture.

I have noticed over the years that many white people are completely uncultured.

 

[Ana the Ist]

White is not a culture.

Do you believe black people have a culture?

 

[Ken-1122]

I have noticed over the years that many white people are completely uncultured.

Perhaps you mistakenly see American culture as no culture at all.

 

[Ken-1122]

Do you believe black people have a culture?

I believe (as a black man) that a black man raised in a small town in Alabama and a black man raised in Los Angeles California will be raised in different cultures. I believe the same applies to white, brown, or any other person

 

[JackRT]

White people and black are alike in that they can represent many different cultures.

 

[Ana the Ist]

I believe (as a black man) that a black man raised in a small town in Alabama and a black man raised in Los Angeles California will be raised in different cultures. I believe the same applies to white, brown, or any other person

Fair enough.

 

[Running2win]

where is white a culture?

Where is Black culture? Where is Indian culture. If you can't figure it out maybe this will help you.

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

The Center for Advance Research on Language Acquisition goes a step further, defining culture as shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding that are learned by socialization. Thus, it can be seen as the growth of a group identity fostered by social patterns unique to the group.

language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong, how we sit at the table, how we greet visitors, how we behave with loved ones, and a million other things," Cristina De Rossi, an anthropologist at Barnet and Southgate College in London, told Live Science.

 

[Running2win]

I have noticed over the years that many white people are completely uncultured.

I know what you mean Kemosabe.

 

[Ken-1122]

Where is Black culture? Where is Indian culture. If you can't figure it out maybe this will help you.

I've never claimed Black or Indian to be cultures.

 

[FireDragon76]

I believe (as a black man) that a black man raised in a small town in Alabama and a black man raised in Los Angeles California will be raised in different cultures. I believe the same applies to white, brown, or any other person

There are regional differences, but they aren't really different cultures. Black people and white people in the US really don't even have two differrent cultures, even if they often differ in status and privilege.

 

[Pommer]

There are regional differences, but they aren't really different cultures. Black people and white people in the US really don't even have two differrent cultures, even if they often differ in status and privilege.

No...(full disclosure: my brother did a DNA profile and we’re white white white), but from what I have seen in my family and what I have seen in my friends who are black, yeah, a strong difference, mainly along the lines of a solidarity of being black.
Their ancestors were not allowed to maintain their own beliefs and culture, so “being black”, stood in for that “cultural” framework within their lives.

 

[ArmenianJohn]

I like white people and want to see white nations retain their white majorities.

What scares you about minorities? By the way, Hispanic is a minority, "Vega'.

 

[Lord Vega]

What scares you about minorities? By the way, Hispanic is a minority, "Vega'.

Nothing, I just prefer whites to stay the majority. I don't have an issue with a society that is 80% white 20% non-white.

By the way, Spanish is a European language.

 

[Nokomis]

I love meeting people of other cultures and discovering their food, their music, their dance and all the other customs.

I feel the same way, JackRT. I love learning about other cultures and experiencing their world in some small way. I'm a "Heinz 57" myself (Irish, Scottish, Choctaw, Comanche, English, possibly mixed with Dutch and German) and I enjoy meeting people whose heritage and ancestry is different from mine.