Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism. There are multiple definitions of this term. 

• At the national level, it means words in a national document that we respect all other cultures and against which we will not discriminate. 
• For others, it means kinship, if not to one’s village but to one’s (former) country, race, or religion. Often, they bring along their old hatreds from their old country to the new. In this version, the group may stick together, live together, apart from their adopted country and in this way alone.  Businesses formed within a given subculture are free to hire within it, promote within it, and maintain kinships, despite the “words.”
• For others, it is a crass method to subdivide various cultures to vote in a certain way. 

Multiculturalism comes down to the triple of words, kinship, and politics, each with their own variations of meaning.  No wonder it causes problems.

Countries adopting a policy of multiculturalism ultimately have no culture.   It becomes a loosely associated confederation of special subcultures and old groups, some allowed or encouraged but others denied to discriminate.

This is the paradox. Multiculturalism is not culturalism of any sort.