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Chancellor Merkel

We recently spoke about German Chancellor, Angela Merkel’s comments that multiculturalism has failed in Germany.

One of you put forth your own perspective on the debate, a blogger for Infinite Culture.

Worth a read the post has a great quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who in response to Arizona’s recent immigration law wrote the following:

“Abominations such as Apartheid do not start with an entire population suddenly becoming inhumane. They start here. They start with generalizing unwanted characteristics across an entire segment of a population. They start with trying to solve a problem by asserting superior force over a population. They start with stripping people of rights and dignity – such as the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty – that you yourself enjoy. Not because it is right, but because you can. And because somehow, you think this is going to solve a problem.”

Is declaring the death of multiculturalism tantamount to suggesting that we can only live with those who are like us?  And what does “like us” even mean. Infinite Culture suggests that we might find common ground through arts and creativity.

However we find it, the borders of our world have become far too blurred to simply give up on multiculturalism.