[Jack]

There are lots of people who discuss multiculturalism. My premise is that people don't really care for it - and will, in fact, reject it. Others have a different view.

My contention is that culture is some construct of deeply held beliefs, values, attitudes, and habits. Thus, multiculturalism is not having breakfast tacos in the morning, followed by sushi for lunch, and ending with pizza at dinner. Due to that contention, my poll will offer you, the reader, a choice of several groups that many may be opposed to. I ask that you seriously ask yourself if you could embrace their culture. My expectation is that most cannot.

So, with that in mind - please vote. And add your thoughts, if you care to.

[cynicalheretic]

Nazi's are good for a laugh now and then, so they get my vote.

Any time a group of religious people want to kill themselves, is a good day in my book.

[Jack]

As I reflect on my poll, I believe I neglected an important option. I didn't list anything for "No, I wouldn't care for any of the above groups."

If you don't care for any of the listed groups, please post your rejection of multiculturalism.

[cynicalheretic]

This site is dead right now, I could remember a time when I use to visit before I became a member that you couldn't post anything without having 5 replies in like 2 minutes. I think alot of people like myself, realize that peak oil is irrelevant and that the world will long distroy it self before actual hydro-carbon depletion becomes a serious threat. After a mass die off we won't really have to worry about peak oil... now will we.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'A')fter a mass die off we won't really have to worry about peak oil... now will we.

[cynicalheretic]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', '
')The key is to be part of the surviving one billion.

[TheTurtle]

Jack, your poll is in the same vein as the question, "Did you stop beating your wife?" If you answer "yes", you're a former wife beater and if you answer "no" you're currently a wife beater. It's a no win question. Just because you posted a bunch of people who I wouldn't want as neighbors doesn't mean I reject multiculturalism. It just means I reject the scum you have listed in your poll.

[dukey]

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', 'J')ust because you posted a bunch of people who I wouldn't want as neighbors doesn't mean I reject multiculturalism. It just means I reject the scum you have listed in your poll.

[TheTurtle]

Fine, by your definition, I do not embrace multiculturalism.

That being said, there are many cultures with languages and customs different than the one in which I was raised that I do not consider scum. There are, however people with my own culture that I DO consider scum.

Wait a minute, now that I think of it, I don't really respect the culture in which I was raised. I guess that means that not only am I not a multiculturalist, I'm not even a monoculturalist.

Go figure. Thanks for clearing that up for me, Jack.

[TheTurtle]

And with that burst of enlightement, I looked at your list again and decided that I wouldn't mind the last group moving into my neighborhood, since they would soon take care of the problem themselves and thus quickly leave me and my tribe in blissful solitude.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheTurtle', 'F')ine, by your definition, I do not embrace multiculturalism.

That being said, there are many cultures with languages and customs different than the one in which I was raised that I do not consider scum. There are, however people with my own culture that I DO consider scum.

[Ingenuity_Gap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', 'B')y the way - I question whether anyone who regards other cultures as scum can truly claim to have "embraced" multiculturalism.

[PolestaR]

In regards to Jack's favorite option - "A group that forces their 10 year old daughters into polygamous relationships with old men."

Muhommed was fucking a 8-9year old as laid out in the Qur'an , so this practice was common for many a year before the negative stigma associated with it was created. In nature once a mammal has their period they are ready for sex. Just because society says it's wrong doesn't mean it is, and I think a collapse will lead us back down that path.

Personally however I don't think forcing anyone to do anything is healthy.

[nwildmand]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'A')fter a mass die off we won't really have to worry about peak oil... now will we.

[nwildmand]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ElijahJones', '
')I think you have to get it down to the area of respecting the rights of individuals within a healthy compromise we call society. Within that compromise there is room for alot of diversity, there is room also for many emotions, even hate. But hate that is acted out through discrimination or other types of crimes cannot be encouraged.

[dissimulo]

It should have been a multiple choice poll. It only allows me to pick one of the options.

[Ingenuity_Gap]

The greatest shortcoming of the human species, after the one involving the inability to understand the exponential function, so eloquently explained by Dr. Albert Bartlett, is the inability to understand the nature of the human being, its characteristics, aspirations and motivations, and the desire to apply this flawed interpretation every century or so, to the entire society.

Fascism and communism are two of the best documented examples of the 20th century. Multiculturalism and globalization are successfully competing for the gold medal in the 21st.