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| THE DEATH KNELL FOR MULTICULTURALISM? | |
| 2011-02-11 | |
| Hat tip Instapundit French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday declared that multiculturalism had failed, joining a growing number of world leaders or ex-leaders who have condemned it. "We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him," he said in a television interview in which he declared the concept a "failure."
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| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #17 Same could be said for rabbit. I will admit if I had to live off of rabbit I would make Watership Down look like a Barney Dinosaur storyline. Multi-culturalism is not an ends it is a means of social engineering. In another era it would be called propagandizing the locals to colonization. Hopefully more on that after dinner. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-02-11 19:07 |
| #16 Frog legs are also considered a Southern dish here in the States, JFM. My mom from Georgia liked them. I think of them the way I think of chicken wings - too many bones, not enough meat. When I eat meat, I want some actual meat in there somewhere. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-02-11 18:05 |
| #15 Agreed, They really do taste like chicken. Decorum demanded taking them at a fancy soirée, not something worth repeating. |
| Posted by: Fire and Ice 2011-02-11 17:18 |
| #14 mmmm...frog legs. UK and France in the same week? Perhaps, my children will be able to visit Europe. I was shocked to enter a coffee bar in Paris, europe cup was on, France vs. Portugal, I could not believe how enthusiastic the clientelle was cheering against France. If they were Portugese then I am a bag of legumes. (reviewing the playoff bracket, they had no horse in the race so to speak, just cheering whoever played against France) |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-02-11 17:15 |
| #13 I have never eaten frog legs and never seen a restaurant proposing them. AFAIK _very_ few French have ever eaten some. Don't bother, they're like expensive chicken hotwings with more annoying bones. More like boiled chicken legs, IMO. Taste just like chicken, |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-02-11 17:09 |
| #12 What's the matter with French fries? Oh, man. Now I'm hungry. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-02-11 15:53 |
| #11 I doubt the sneer is sufficient to detract from the self-evident common sense of the balance of the sentence. In fact, it gives the term "right-wing" a certain patina of reasonability and patriotism in the eyes of most readers. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-02-11 14:53 |
#10 Here's the Sarkozy quote that got me (from the AFP article I cite in the post above):"If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France," the right-wing president said. Note the AFP sneer of 'right-wing'. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-02-11 13:35 |
| #9 Can we also throw "political correctness" on the same dung heap that multiculturalism is heading for? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-02-11 13:19 |
| #8 A few of my group tried them when we went to a restaurant in Chamonix. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-02-11 12:05 |
| #7 @JFM Don't bother, they're like expensive chicken hotwings with more annoying bones. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-02-11 12:04 |
| #6 "We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him" -brilliant line. This country should heed that. Good job Nic. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2011-02-11 11:47 |
| #5 Have the Moslems adapted to the French Fries and frog legs on the menu French fries are halal. I have never eaten frog legs and never seen a restaurant proposing them. AFAIK _very_ few French have ever eaten some. |
| Posted by: JFM 2011-02-11 10:30 |
| #4 ...they've figured how to work the victim/entitlement stick? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-02-11 09:14 |
| #3 Are they still burning cars in the Moslem Ghetto slums around Paris? Have the Moslems adapted to the French Fries and frog legs on the menu? How does the crepe suzette go with the burqua and the Napolean brandy this morning? How do Moslems do in the Armed Forces of Western democracies? What's wrong with say forty percent Moslem in a US Marine Corp platoon? You have to know who your friends are. You have to know who you can trust with the baby. " Hope and change" is bullshiite. Not everybody's values are equal. Not all religions are equal either. Some people see nothing wrong with being a shaheed. You like hot dogs and stuff down at the Deli? You like bacon and scrambled eggs? You like seeing a big Pork section at the Supermarket? What's your final existential position on Red beans hamhock and cornbread? How many Moslem Police in your home town?Do you want to keep it that way or get a free scholarship to Harvard? How many Moslems wearing burquas teaching grades one thru' three in your local public Elementary? If even the French are saying it...think how multiculturalism will be acceptable in rural Missouri. What's wrong with a highschool Football team.....and all Moslem.... playing against an all Baptist team from across the county? Good game...but what about AFTER the game? Moslems? Oh, yeah, we have so much to learn from Moslems. Give me ten reasons why Moslems are as American as the Mississippi River. How about nine? No.. .Eight? Give me one then. |
| Posted by: Dribble2716 2011-02-11 09:09 |
| #2 The lefties will just change the name as they did with Manmade Global Warming to Climate Change and keep on doing the same old stick, indoctrinating your kiddies in the state monopoly schools. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-02-11 08:47 |
| #1 I just thought of a great new meme: "Post-multiculturalism". It implies a lot of things. First and foremost that there is an alternative to multiculturalism, if as yet undefined. Second of all, that the local, western culture is *superior* to the imported cultures. And that it is not the dominant culture that needs to be flexible and adapt to the imported cultures, but that it is the imported cultures that must change and integrate into their new common culture. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-02-11 08:36 |