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Readers of my blog and I came up with a list of arguments against multicultural education (ME). The list below makes it clear that we must stop multiculturalism and replace it with culturism. These arguments provide important intellectual weapons in this battle.
#1 – ME is offered as the cure for America’s having been an especially racist nation. Our accomplishments far outweigh our sins. ME slanders our good name.
#2 – ME greatly diminishes critical thought by greatly distorting global history and underplaying the lack of cohesion in western history.
#3 - ME has us sloppily making amends to people who we never discriminated against in any meaningful sense. We need not feel guilty to cultures that were not here to be discriminated against.
#4 – ME doesn’t really believe diversity is real. Multiculturalism teaches that, deep down, all cultures basically advocate variations of secular humanism.
#5 – ME allows Islam to use the schools to inculcate our children with their doctrine.
#6 – ME teaches that total equality is the natural state. ME then uses our inequality to argue for “social justice.” This implies we are unjust and need redistribution of wealth to correct for all existing inequality.
#7 – By teaching that our society is racist and unjust, ME turns resistance to participating in our society into a virtue. It thus especially hinders the education of minorities.
#8 – In a desire to create ethnic pride, ME falsifies the anthropological record. Early cultures were very violent. This misreading makes us cynical about progress and America’s historical mission.
#9 – ME blinds us to real evils in the world. It says that since all cultures are equally worthy of praise, attempts to distinguish between cultures is irrational racism.
#10 – ME becomes hypocritical the minute it makes any judgments. It thus undermines attempts to teach values.
#11 – Because western civilization has had an enormous influence on the world, ME teaches our culture is uniquely bad for disturbing indigenous cultures. Supporting western culture then becomes synonymous with advocating white supremacy.
#12 – ME denies that we have a core culture and thus undermines teaching western history. This makes us vulnerable to having no common cultural language to draw upon and encourages the forgetting of our heritage.
#13 – ME actually only acknowledges liberal values. Christian disagreement with gay marriage cannot be celebrated.
#14 – Undercuts schools’ universal and historic mission of socializing youth into the society in which they will live their lives. Schools thus lose their purpose.
#15 – Undermining our pride in our culture decreases our citizens’ desire to protect it. ME thereby puts us in a weak position in competition with cultures that create fanatical pride in their culture.
#16 - ME teaches that your ancestors' culture determines your identity and views. It thus diminishes freedom.
#17 – ME routinely confuses culture and race. It thus inhibits frank and realistic discussions about diversity.
#18 – ME divides us.
#19 - ME undermines critical thought by telling us we must celebrate all cultural attributes.
#20 – For all of the above reasons, multiculturalism threatens the survival of western civilization.
Culturism is the opposite of multiculturalism. It counters all of these grave evils. We need to identify as culturists to save western civilization.
PLEASE GO TO ISI's AMAZING LECTURE COLLECTION AND WATCH THEIR DEBATE OVER MULTICULTURALISM at http://www.isi.org/lectures/lectures.aspx
- Frances Kellor, Universalism, Particularism, And Culturism
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20 Arguments Against Multicultural Education
Readers of my blog and I came up with a list of arguments against multicultural education (ME). The list below makes it clear that we must stop multiculturalism and replace it with culturism. These arguments provide important intellectual weapons in this battle.
#1 – ME is offered as the cure for America’s having been an especially racist nation. Our accomplishments far outweigh our sins. ME slanders our good name.
#2 – ME greatly diminishes critical thought by greatly distorting global history and underplaying the lack of cohesion in western history.
#3 - ME has us sloppily making amends to people who we never discriminated against in any meaningful sense. We need not feel guilty to cultures that were not here to be discriminated against.
#4 – ME doesn’t really believe diversity is real. Multiculturalism teaches that, deep down, all cultures basically advocate variations of secular humanism.
#5 – ME allows Islam to use the schools to inculcate our children with their doctrine.
#6 – ME teaches that total equality is the natural state. ME then uses our inequality to argue for “social justice.” This implies we are unjust and need redistribution of wealth to correct for all existing inequality.
#7 – By teaching that our society is racist and unjust, ME turns resistance to participating in our society into a virtue. It thus especially hinders the education of minorities.
#8 – In a desire to create ethnic pride, ME falsifies the anthropological record. Early cultures were very violent. This misreading makes us cynical about progress and America’s historical mission.
#9 – ME blinds us to real evils in the world. It says that since all cultures are equally worthy of praise, attempts to distinguish between cultures is irrational racism.
#10 – ME becomes hypocritical the minute it makes any judgments. It thus undermines attempts to teach values.
#11 – Because western civilization has had an enormous influence on the world, ME teaches our culture is uniquely bad for disturbing indigenous cultures. Supporting western culture then becomes synonymous with advocating white supremacy.
#12 – ME denies that we have a core culture and thus undermines teaching western history. This makes us vulnerable to having no common cultural language to draw upon and encourages the forgetting of our heritage.
#13 – ME actually only acknowledges liberal values. Christian disagreement with gay marriage cannot be celebrated.
#14 – Undercuts schools’ universal and historic mission of socializing youth into the society in which they will live their lives. Schools thus lose their purpose.
#15 – Undermining our pride in our culture decreases our citizens’ desire to protect it. ME thereby puts us in a weak position in competition with cultures that create fanatical pride in their culture.
#16 - ME teaches that your ancestors' culture determines your identity and views. It thus diminishes freedom.
#17 – ME routinely confuses culture and race. It thus inhibits frank and realistic discussions about diversity.
#18 – ME divides us.
#19 - ME undermines critical thought by telling us we must celebrate all cultural attributes.
#20 – For all of the above reasons, multiculturalism threatens the survival of western civilization.
Culturism is the opposite of multiculturalism. It counters all of these grave evils. We need to identify as culturists to save western civilization.
PLEASE GO TO ISI's AMAZING LECTURE COLLECTION AND WATCH THEIR DEBATE OVER MULTICULTURALISM at http://www.isi.org/lectures/lectures.aspx
- Frances Kellor, Universalism, Particularism, And Culturism
Where do our historic Americanization movement and culturism fall within the spectrum of particularism and universalism? The answers are not so obvious and nearly counter-intuitive. Particularism says that cultural groups, such as the Jews, should focus...
- Feminism, Culturism And Group Rights
The late Susan Moller Okin was an academic who argued that multiculturalism hurts feminism. This was great. In doing so she largely argued against Will Kymlicka’s arguments for legally protecting minority’s cultural rights such as that to have polygamy....
- Obama's Multiculturalism Endangers The West
President Obama’s being a multiculturalist endangers the West. In a speech in Turkey he announced, “The United States is not and will never be at war with Islam.” He also called for Turkey to become a part of the EU. Both of these statements reflect...
- Bnp Culturist Or Racist?
Is the BNP racist or culturist? As a western culturist, I have long wondered about the BNP. But, as a culturist, I also know that it is hard to understand a movement unless you are a part of the culture that it lives in. So, though I see stuff on line,...
- Help Wilders' Culturist Crusade
Geert Wilders, a Dutch parliamentarian, was refused entry into the UK. The Muslim community threatened to riot if his film FITNA screened in parliament. Ironically, the Muslims objected to the film’s portrayal of them as intolerant! And since freedom...