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"Where I come from," said Archie, "a bloke likes to get to know a girl before he marries her." "Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does not mean," said Samad tersely, "that it is a good idea."
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multiculturalism
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Zadie Smith |
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[T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made us richer by Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam, Vikram Seth, Monica Ali, and many others, is now one of the disguises for a culturalism, based on moral relativism and moral blackmail (in addition to some more obvious blackmail of the less moral sort) whereby the Enlightenment has been redefined as 'white' and 'oppressive,' mass illegal immigration threatens to spoil everything for everybody, and the figure of the free-floating transnational migrant has been deposed by the contorted face of the psychopathically religious international nihilist, praying for the day when his messianic demands will coincide with possession of an apocalyptic weapon. (These people are not called nihilists for nothing.) Of all of this we were warned, and Salman was the messenger. : Change only the name and this story is about you.
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multiculturalism
relativism
rushdie
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Christopher Hitchens |
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ae70715
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed.
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americans
faith
famous-quotes-from-classic-books
haiku
haikus
healing
history
humanity
joy
multiculturalism
multiculturalismo
multiculturalità
national-history-day
patriotism
personal-growth
philosophy
rebith
rejuvenation
remembering-september-11
spirituality
teaching-diversity
world-suicide-prevention-day
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Aberjhani |
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I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe -- the gods and other spirits -- don't exist. These people are mistaken, and you know it as well as I do. It is possible for highly intelligent people to have a very useful but mistaken theory, and we don't have to pretend otherwise in order to show respect for these people and their ways.
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multiculturalism
relativism
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.
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angel-art
anti-racism
antiracism
appropriate-application
coexistence
common-ground
cultural-boundaries
cultural-demographics
cultural-differences
cultural-heritage
cultural-literacy
cultural-relativism
demographics
diversity
ending-violent-jihad
ending-war
faith-in-humanity
faith-in-love
human-beings
human-condition
humanity
ideologies
ideology
ideology-religion-war-compromise
interfaith-dialogue
joy
joy-of-life
laughter
love-for-humanity
multiculturalism
multiculturalismo
nonviolent-conflict-resolution
peacism
philosophy-for-millennials
race-relations
racial-division
racial-identity
social-philosophy
sociological-imagination
spiritual-philosophy
universal
universal-love
universal-truths
universality
waging-peace
weeping
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Aberjhani |
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If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike.
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anti-racism
antiracism
belief-in-nonviolence
children-victims-of-war
civility
coexistence
compassion-heals-lives
compassion-love
compassion-wisdom
coping-with-change
courage-to-love
discourse-on-a-better-world
diversity
ending-terrorism
ending-war
enemy-quotes
faith-in-humanity
faith-in-love
fear-of-love
finding-strength-in-love
global-peace-movement
global-village
good-versus-evil
hate
hate-versus-love
higher-consciousness
hope-for-humanity
human-nature
human-rights-day
ideas
interfaith-dialogue
international-community
jihadism-and-love
jihadists-and-love
living-without-fear
love
love-and-jihad
making-a-difference
mindfulness
multiculturalism
multiculturalismo
national-history-day
nonviolent-conflict-resolution
peacism
philosophy-of-life
police-culture
police-reform
postered-poetics-by-aberjhani
quote-of-the-day
quotes-for-the-new-year
race-relations
radical-grace
spiritual-philosophy
sustainbale-humanity
terrorism
trusting-love
unconditional-love
wisdom-quotes
xenophobia
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Aberjhani |
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"A quick check on the platoon showed everyone more or less enjoying the flight. "Whatever it is you're eating, Ressk, swallow it before we land," [said Staff Sergeant Kerr]. "No problem, Staff." "More like whoever he's eating," Binti muttered beside him. "You ought to count your fingers," he suggested. "You're too serley stupid to notice one missing." "Maybe you ought to gren sa talamec to." "That's enough, people." When the Confederation first started integrating the di'Taykan and the Krai into what was predominantly a human military system, xenopsychologists among the elder races expected a number of problems. For the most part, those expectations fell short. After having dealt with the Mictok and the H'san, none of the younger races - all bipedal mammals - had any difficulty with each other's appearance. Cultural differences were absorbed into the prevailing military culture and the remaining problems were dealt with in the age-old military tradition of learning to say "up yours" in the other races' languages. The "us against them" mentality of war made for strange bedfellows."
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multiculturalism
soldiers
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Tanya Huff |
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Nine times out of ten a man's broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of his own village may really be full of varieties; and even his vision of his own nation may have a rough resemblance to the reality. But his vision of the world is probably smaller than the world...hence he is never so inadequate as when he is universal; he is never so limited as when he generalizes. This is the fallacy in the many modern attempts at a creedless creed, at something variously described as...undenominational religion or a world faith to embrace all the faiths in the world...When a philosophy embraces everything it generally squeezes everything, and squeezes it out of shape; when it digests it necessarily assimilates.
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multiculturalism
nonsectarianism
open-mindedness
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G.K. Chesterton |
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Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts--the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.
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india
multiculturalism
pop-culture
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Adam Rex |
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The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression--rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected against discrimination and prejudice, and they are free to maintain whatever part of their ethnic heritage or identity they wish, consistent with the rights of others. But their efforts are purely private, and it is not the place of public agencies to attach legal identities or disabilities to cultural membership or ethnic identity. This separation of state and ethnicity precludes any legal or governmental recognition of ethnic groups, or any use of ethnic criteria in the distribution of rights, resources, and duties.
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discrimination
ethnicity
individuals
liberalism
liberties
multiculturalism
nations
neutrality
prejudice
states
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Will Kymlicka |
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In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.
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family-dynamics
irish-immigrant
irish-literature
irish-memoir
life-lessons
multiculturalism
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Greg McVicker |