Multiculturalism

Right. Except that neither of those terms as you've defined them describe the culture here in the US. What you are doing instead is simply taking the status quo, however you define it, and saying that you don't want to tolerate more changes.The inclusion of blacks, hispanics, asians in this country has come with some adapting by the immigrants or freed people and some adapting by the host. I really don't care much that you don't like that. I doubt you'll be able to convince anyone except the most reactionary wing that things should have been different.

Interesting. I guess I can finally agree with you on something substantial.

Just what rights are you claiming to have lost through multi-culturalism? I suspect that answer to be something close to zero.Of course if you are a totalitarian lunatic (your term, not mine) who thinks that not having to dial one to speak in English or that having other people eat turkey on thanksgiving is one of his God given rights then you are going to see every group of immigrants of as some type of threat to your well being.

Faith has put her money where her mouth is. Part of her 100 dollar bet with Dr Adequate is that Islam will get a hold in the nation by Dec 19, 2019.

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To provide admission to people from a diverse set of countries.

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From which Jon concludes: You appear to have skipped a couple of steps in your logic. Again.Providing a legal immigration opportunity to a person from one of the few countries that doe not already immigrate here in droves (50,000 per year or more) is not necessarily multiculturalism. That is unless multiculturalism is just your code word for xenophobic paranoia.As an aside...At one time official US policy was that white people could immigrate freely. There are actually an old case from that era where the Supreme Court ruled that merely being Caucasian was not enough to be considered white for immigration purposes.

Allowing a person to immigrate here from say, Guatemala or Taiwan, for the simple purpose of finding a better economic opportunity does not necessarily promote either cultural diversity or require any particular policy for treating the individual any differently. We might well anticipate that the new emigree will assimilate into the current culture.What you are demonstrating by lumping things into your multicultural pot and then railing against all things multicultural is your own paranoia and xenophobia.The alternative, which would be an immigration policy tied to disallowing the possibility to immigrate of people based on their cultural background would be intolerable and unjust. But apparently that's the kind of policy you need to feel safe. Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

I would suggest that if forced mutilation an laws against educating girls fail to cross the line for some relativist, laws outlawing the wearing trousers by women would not even register on the outrage meter.

Right, because it is impossible to both note our own shortcomings and to also identify some short comings of others as being even worse.