Multiculturalism

Although very frequently used and portrayed by the Main Stream Media as the new religion that will have "all the people living life in peace", Multiculturalism is a foggy and utterly confusing concept. It is foggy for we don't really understand the purpose of it since democracy should already be the word to allow peace to spread, and confusing for the relation between cause and effect: ...well, even a kid would say, that it simply does not add up.
Then why we keep using it? Simple: it means quite nothing, makes you appear in harmony with the social fabric you walk on and last but not least, it is the most politically correct term you can inject in any idiotic rant, while, on the other hand, denying its miraculous effects will most certainly make you appear as a Nazi-soaked warmonger.
The reason why people can't escape from its tentacles in reality is the strident lack of "Moral Clarity" they are swimming into.
Multiculturalism is, at best the simple coexistence of different cultures into the same geographic location, you don't need to be an ethologist to predict that balance is achieved through the domination of the stronger on the weaker, eventually ending up in a complex chain that will have as a preferable mean: coercion.

If you want to understand multiculturalism you have to read the following quote by Sir Charles Napier, at that time Commander-in-Chief of India.
Approached by a delegation of Hindu locals complaining about the prohibition of Sati (Suttee), the custom of burning widows alive in the funeral pyres of their husbands, General Napier was impeccably multicultural when he replied:

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."

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