Does multiculturalism actually work?

Oh, one mind will have to respect the Will of the People.

 

Completely and 100% false. America was monocultural up to about 1990 and was incredibly successful as a result. We've been multicultural since about 1990 and have been doing worse and worse as a consequence. This country is coming apart at the seams and the reason is this multicultural bullshit. Cultures are not equal and ours is/was the best, that's why the US became #1 in the world. Replacing it with multiculturalism is a recipe for division, failure, and ultimately war and/or revolution.

 

Can you explain then why I cant buy a block of land in Melton and build a house there....
Oh sorry, I can answer that...Im not a muslim...muslims only enclave....
Yep they assimilate really well....multiculturalism at its best.....

 

We have been multicultural since day one. The US is a blend of almost every culture on earth. And it is a huge success. No coincidence

 

Yep. Id fit in really well in Dearborn...

 

I could care less about your feelings

 

The feelings mutual sonny..

 

You have lots of feelz. Lol

 

The "melting pot" is far superior to the "salad bowl".

The melting pot won three world wars in the 20th century. The salad bowl is a recipe for division, hatred, and Balkanization.

 

I grew up in the 60's and 70's. All the first born Italians and irish spoke their home languages. They only hung out with their own and followed their own custons

 

I had the opposite experience. I grew up in a "multicultural" neighborhood of NYC in the 1960's and 70's. We had Italians, French, English, Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Jews, Irish, blacks, Hispanics, etc. No one gave a rat's ass about "the old country". We were just Americans. The common attitude was: the old country must have sucked because all of our ancestors left there between 50 and 100 years before that.

None of us were hyphenated Americans.

 

I grew up on NYC too. Flatbush belonged to the Italians. Rockaway was the Irish and neponsit was the Jews. The blacks lived in far rockaway. And on and on. Everyone hung out with their own and spoke their own languages as well as some english. The kids were different but the immigrant parents were all the same.

The parents were all irish Americans and so forth

 

Wow. I like my neighborhood better.

 

I am describing most of NYC. The upper west side may have been a bit different for you

 

That's not where my family is from. We were from the Bronx and southern Westchester County.

 

The south bronx was owned by the irish and blacks. Westchester county was white rich central. Explains everything

 

The Bronx was mixed ... ditto for Yonkers, Mount Vernon, etc. Very diverse. And not Balkanized.

 

Holy cow. It was rich white central. What country did your parents immigrate from?

 

You're dreaming.

Our success comes with great difficulty and is in spite of......not because of multiculturalism.

 

The Bronx and Mount Vernon was "rich white central"?

My great-grandparents were from Sweden, Germany, England. We lived in diverse neighborhoods in the Bronx, Mount Vernon, etc. We had blacks, Hispanics, Italians, Irish, and Germans everywhere. Very few rich whites lived in the apartment buildings where I lived when I was young.

It was a melting pot, not a freakin' salad bowl.

 

Great grandparents???? Holy cow you were out of the loop. My parents came over on the boat from Ireland and always spoke Gaelic with their friends.

Who owned little Italy, china town, Harlem, hells kitchen? NYC WAS the balkans.

 

I played irish football in Gaelic park in the bronx. Not a non irish face in the stands

 

"America was monocultural up to about 1990 and was incredibly successful as a result" is a false statement.

America actually has been multicultural from the beginning.

The OP's fail is that it ignores the process of immigration, assimilation, and demonstrated change of culture during the process of those generations of amalgamation.

Professional baseball, as an example, began with American-born and immigrant Irish, then added Jews, Germans, Italians, some Hispanic players, then black players, then into the Caribbean and norther South America and Mexico.

The rest of America culturally, professionally, and socially has moved forward because of multiculturalism.

Those who argue against it a

 

We evidently lived in the best part of NYC. A diverse melting pot. No salad bowl.

 

Prove it.