Smältdegel eller underbar mosaik?

Michael Barone skriver träffande om multikulturalismen:

Multiculturalism preaches that we should allow and encourage immigrants and their children to maintain and celebrate their own culture apart from the national culture. Society should be not a melting pot but, in the phrase of former New York Mayor David Dinkins, ”a gorgeous mosaic.” That mosaic, of course, looks less gorgeous as people surveyed the work of the British-born-and-raised bombers. …

Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. But all cultures are not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties and the rule of law. And those things arose not simultaneously and in all cultures, but in certain specific times and places — mostly in Britain and America, but also in various parts of Europe.

Länktips Dick Erixon.