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Multiculturalism is a white people joke. -- Ntozake Shange
Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power. -- Ntozake Shange
Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide. -- Rich Lowry
Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism. -- Linda Chavez
Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.' -- Henry Hazlitt
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture. -- Edwin A. Locke
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. -- Thomas Sowell
Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into an environment where other ethnicities, less cynical and more positive, will play a big role in its future. -- Loretta Napoleoni
Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization. -- George Will
Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide. -- Jack Kelly
Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. -- Michael Barone
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all. -- Victor Davis Hanson
Multiculturalism destroys the true diversity which nature requires for the continued evolution of the species through the natural selection process of differentiation and competition between specialized populations within a group. -- Billy Roper
Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains, -- John Sentamu
'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism. -- David Henry Hwang
The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism. -- Mark Durie
I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization. -- Charles Krauthammer
Long before the idea of multiculturalism, in public people could say almost anything to you and get away with it. -- Junot Diaz
It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue. -- Roselee Goldberg
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies. -- Nancy Pearcey
Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure. -- Bassam Tibi
The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror. -- Richard Perle
The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities. -- Stephen Harper
The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men. -- James A. Baldwin
I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in. -- David Henry Hwang
If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life. -- Jonathan Franzen
Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of shared values, that is, a culture of mutual tolerance and respect - in other words, what constitutes the heart of European culture. -- Walter Kasper
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid. -- Salman Rushdie
Multiculturalism is only in the West. We are absorbing a large number of Muslims in the west and at the same time the Christians and the Jews and other minorities are fleeing the Middle East, churches are being burnt, nobody is talking about it. Where are the religious freedom of the minorities. -- Mark Durie
I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians. Between 1984 and 1995, 40 per cent of all migrants coming into this country were of Asian origin. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate. -- Pauline Hanson
The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have to be Superior. What is different about Islam is it's not just a type of food you ate or the way you dress, it's a total system of life driven by values. -- Mark Durie
With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city. -- David Simon
I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance. -- Bill Maher
Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism. -- David Henry Hwang
We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths. -- Manmohan Singh
That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system. -- Rush Limbaugh
That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system. -- Rush Limbaugh
The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them. -- Mitt Romney
I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism. -- Saya Woolfalk
If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart. -- Pim Fortuyn
I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all cultures are equal - is the worst recipe for any society. -- Geert Wilders

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