British Freedom of Speech withered, dying

[garbon]

Contrarian is thy name, and disingenuous is thy middle name.

One does not make a law to prevent such a thing - one simply does not allow people who believe in such things to enter one's country!

G.

What happens if they are born in your country?

[garbon]

Yeah, it wasn't as bad when I was a kid, but it was there.  It was a far cry from that one school in California where you were required to "be a Muslim" for a couple weeks.

OMG, that California. So wacky.

[Faeelin]

I'll be tolerant of a man (insert any muslim background here) with his wife wearing a burqa and walking 3 steps behind, if I see this on TV, in a documentary about the quaint customs of some faraway land - not if I see it in the Montreal subway like I did some time ago. 

...

You're not even fun to make fun of.

[Martinus]

Do they attempt culture enriching in school these days?  They didn't when I was a lad, but that was back when official multiculturalism was in it's infancy, and was still mostly based on anti-Americanism.

Yeah, it wasn't as bad when I was a kid, but it was there.  It was a far cry from that one school in California where you were required to "be a Muslim" for a couple weeks.

I was required to "be a hetero" for my entire time at high school.

[Ed Anger]

Do they attempt culture enriching in school these days?  They didn't when I was a lad, but that was back when official multiculturalism was in it's infancy, and was still mostly based on anti-Americanism.

Yeah, it wasn't as bad when I was a kid, but it was there.  It was a far cry from that one school in California where you were required to "be a Muslim" for a couple weeks.

I was required to "be a hetero" for my entire time at high school.

Your silk scarves were a dead giveaway.

[dps]

How could you have a law that prevents a man from having his wife walk behind him?

Contrarian is thy name, and disingenuous is thy middle name.

One does not make a law to prevent such a thing - one simply does not allow people who believe in such things to enter one's country!




G.

And you think that the attitude that a man is the lord and master of his wife is restricted to particular ethnic, cultural, or religious groups, so you can easily identify them and keep them out?

[Neil]

I was required to "be a hetero" for my entire time at high school.

You gave up too soon.

[Grallon]

You're not even fun to make fun of.

Soit beau et tais-toi mon joli!




G.

[Neil]

Zut allors!  Mange poisson avec moi.

Içi, on parle en anglais, car Wolfe a gagner.

[Maximus]

 

[Sheilbh]

Where is this "real" multiculturalism?  In many/most cases, the multiculturalism I know tends to be forced on people.  Like in school, for example.

London seems close to the successful real multicultiness.

I always thought multiculturalism was actually a sort of way of dealing with numerous cultures within a society or a city.  I didn't realise that it was really religious education classes about Hinduism

[Richard Hakluyt]

I've never liked multicultural as a term, it seems inaccurate to me, a better description would be broadminded and tolerant.

So, we can welcome Islam and muslims, but not Islam as it is practised in Saudi Arabia.......for example.

So, a muslim that accepted these overarching values of tolerance and secularism trumping religion would not belong to a different culture IMO, he would be a Westerner.

The Ottoman empire was a multicultural state in that it had different laws for people with different cultures. A country like Britain has the same laws for all, so, if we are multicultural, then we continuously hobble and restrict the component cultures.

[Duque de Bragança]

You're not even fun to make fun of.

Sois beau et tais-toi mon joli!




G.

SVP

[Duque de Bragança]

Zut allors!  Mange poisson avec moi.

Içi, on parle en anglais, car Wolfe a gagner.

Grey Wolf-like grammar/spelling, vorsicht!

Zut alors!  Mange du poisson avec moi(sic).

Ici, on parle (en) anglais, car Wolfe a gagné.

[Razgovory]

Where is this "real" multiculturalism?  In many/most cases, the multiculturalism I know tends to be forced on people.  Like in school, for example.

London seems close to the successful real multicultiness.

I always thought multiculturalism was actually a sort of way of dealing with numerous cultures within a society or a city.  I didn't realise that it was really religious education classes about Hinduism

You learn something everyday.