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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
rushdie
relativism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy's garden blossomed.
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history
joy
humanity
faith
spirituality
philosophy
multiculturalità
rebith
rejuvenation
remembering-september-11
teaching-diversity
world-suicide-prevention-day
multiculturalismo
famous-quotes-from-classic-books
haikus
national-history-day
personal-growth
healing
multiculturalism
americans
haiku
patriotism
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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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laughter
joy
humanity
angel-art
appropriate-application
common-ground
cultural-boundaries
cultural-demographics
cultural-heritage
cultural-literacy
demographics
universal-truths
ideologies
ideology-religion-war-compromise
philosophy-for-millennials
racial-division
racial-identity
social-philosophy
sociological-imagination
universal-love
cultural-differences
waging-peace
ending-violent-jihad
anti-racism
ending-war
faith-in-love
interfaith-dialogue
multiculturalismo
faith-in-humanity
peacism
antiracism
spiritual-philosophy
joy-of-life
coexistence
cultural-relativism
nonviolent-conflict-resolution
human-condition
universal
multiculturalism
love-for-humanity
diversity
universality
race-relations
weeping
human-beings
ideology
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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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hate
love
anti-racism
belief-in-nonviolence
children-victims-of-war
civility
compassion-love
compassion-wisdom
coping-with-change
courage-to-love
discourse-on-a-better-world
ending-terrorism
ending-war
faith-in-love
finding-strength-in-love
global-peace-movement
global-village
good-versus-evil
hate-versus-love
higher-consciousness
hope-for-humanity
interfaith-dialogue
international-community
jihadism-and-love
jihadists-and-love
living-without-fear
love-and-jihad
multiculturalismo
police-culture
quotes-for-the-new-year
radical-grace
sustainbale-humanity
trusting-love
faith-in-humanity
peacism
postered-poetics-by-aberjhani
antiracism
spiritual-philosophy
enemy-quotes
coexistence
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unconditional-love
fear-of-love
making-a-difference
compassion-heals-lives
human-rights-day
national-history-day
nonviolent-conflict-resolution
police-reform
mindfulness
terrorism
multiculturalism
xenophobia
diversity
wisdom-quotes
race-relations
philosophy-of-life
ideas
human-nature
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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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soldiers
multiculturalism
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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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nonsectarianism
open-mindedness
multiculturalism
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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
pop-culture
multiculturalism
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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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prejudice
liberties
neutrality
states
individuals
nations
ethnicity
multiculturalism
liberalism
discrimination
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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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life-lessons
family-dynamics
irish-immigrant
irish-literature
irish-memoir
multiculturalism
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Greg McVicker |