Failure of Multiculturalism as a Policy

This is a very deeply researched and structured theory. It has been implemented by social scientists and politicians in the very best of liberal societies over decades.

It has failed. It has failed very soundly and very seriously. It is difficult to measure as the failures are many and in different areas. It is difficult to peg performance in an evolving society where pegs are difficult to define but significantly below poor.

The problem has been that the theory was compiled by intellectuals with ideals and sold by politicians with agendas. In Europe it involved inclusions of cultures into the white domicile societies by imposing ideals onto the new imported cultures. Europe had its own morphing cluster of cultures through history and multicultural on their own terms derived by considerable trade and blood-letting.

Modern practice has been to incorporate new cultures into their own as an ideal driven program. These groups were each of only one culture but since they were no longer in their homelands they were incorporating aspects of culture from their new home. This incorporation determined that they were no longer the original culture but a totally new one formed with ties to both new and old cultures. The population of an immigrant culture and their density determines their emphasis on old culture and assimilation into their new home. Thus the soft core of the new home values are being challenged by their hard core old values before they have time to merge with the home core values and as such are likely to separate under duress where important values differ.

Africa is a massive mix of ethnicities, tribes, cities and cultures. Throw in various religions and a history of imperialism then we exclaim that we don’t understand why there are split loyalties, favouritism, conflict and genocide. Europeans in Africa defined boundaries set to the rivers and convenient geographic features that tribes settled around for existence so they were split into nations direct through tribes, previously strong tribes were diminished in representative voice to below that of tribes not split.

Imperialism is a short part of history in Africa, but an immense impact. South Africa stands alone in being around for 400-500 years under colonisation. Mozambique has been trading, with ports dating back hundreds of years but their penetration was limited. Imperialism encouraged race to be a core issue that was detrimental to the majority who would go on to successfully challenge this.

With significant strife existing the issue of core values are still not being addressed and there will continue to be stress and in times of hardship there will be further separation and strife. Forcing cultures together is inflammatory.