Challenges and Perspectives of a Multicultural Europe
The following is a short version transcript of one of my book lecture presentations that I have given regarding Multiculturalism in Europe from book, The Browning of Europe, Multicultural Challenges and Perspectives of a Changing Europe. If you would like to read the full version please email me.
An Open Discussion
April 18, 2006
Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA. USA
Good Afternoon, In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful, and peace be upon you. I am honored to be here today. I want to thank my host of this invitation Dr. Pamela Lindell, I want to also thank student assistant Amber for her help today, as well as the faculty and student body and supporting members and friends of Sacramento City College for coming out this afternoon.
It is always an honor to for me to speak within the college community because I enjoy the environment and think back on my own academic experiences as an undergraduate student and what it meant to hear a speaker talk about a relative or current event topic.
My interest in Racial and Cultural Studies began as a long journey of being groomed by activists and the leaders and heroes and heroines who always have stood out against racial injustice and discrimination. Likewise, I have always had in interest in how people from different communities deal with the racial conversation. This has always been apart of the conversation that I have been probing whether socially or professionally. I am someone who grew up as not wanting to be shaped solely by my own environment, because if I had, I would not be here today. So my academic and career shaping has largely come from my interest in Ethnic Studies, Sociology and Cultural Diversity management.
After years of researching issues related to race, culture, and society as well facilitating diversity training programs, I decided to take my energies to type and construct some serious thought as to how racial issues affect the thought patterns, images, and identifications that come to classify us into our segmented communities. In writing this book project I knew I could offer some very unique expertise and perspectives as a African-American, Male, Multicultural Competency expert, community activist, Muslim, and writer.
During the day’s after the September 11, 2001 attacks there was a great deal of public discussion about how the definition of being “American” has changed. Many people were of the mindset that why cant we as all American citizen’s now just be Americans; rather than why does one group or another need or have to be symbolized by these hyphenated definitions such as African-American, Irish-American, Italian-American, etc.. And while I may agree to that point on some extent, at the same time how valid of a point is it in the face of this nation’s history as it relates to race and racism. Racism and discrimination in America did not end on 9-11-01, as soon as that happens then I think that it will make for a more valid point. That is to say, that in describing myself as an African American it does not take away from me being more or less an American citizen or the identity that we have as Americans. As we all know this nation was constructed through a path of immigration, slavery, and people movement be it voluntarily or involuntarily. So the identity that one may possess thus does not change because of residence.
My experience went from being stopped for DWB (Driving While Black), before 9/11 to FWM (Flying While Muslim) afterwards. But what I think is most relevant is that one must maintain self awareness of race, culture, or religion, etc. when it comes to the climate and environment in our society.
While it has been 2 years since my book’s release the events that I will address with you here today are still taking place in Europe. Issues related to Europe’s cross cultural bridge with its Muslim communities and populations, the riots in France 1 and 2, and the London and Madrid attacks just to name a few. However these issues also connect to the discussion of where the patterns and identifications of race, culture, and religion meet in Europe. I have always admired the various nationalities and peoples of Europe. And, while I have enjoyed everything about Europe and Europeans, from their food to history to their culture and traditions, I have also been strongly interested in the racial dynamic and mix, including how are black populations being treated there. And prior to traveling to the continent I had heard everything from them being treated very well and better than in America, to being treated worse than a second class citizen. Obviously it depends on what part of Europe you are in, but I can say from having lived there and traveling in parts of the continent for 2 years, I had seen some of both of these descriptions.
So when I started my project, I was doing it purely to gain a better understanding about what some of these experiences were and what was it like being a person of color in Europe. As a first time author of this sort, I knew and understood in writing a book that it had to be written to provide and raise a critical dialogue to serious issues of importance that I feel are often missed by many writers and cultural analysts. My focus was to tell a story that is often not heard, and develop broader cultural understanding and meaning about what I see as this Browning of Europe. I decided to write a book that focuses on the trends related to multiculturalism in Europe as well as equally examine and respond with my own experience and expertise as to what the racial, religious, and other cultural trends will mean and how are they affecting large segments of modern European society. What is unique here is the examination and the apparent paradox between Europe's ongoing plans for integration, and the continent's enduring cultural, political, and economic diversity.
So what is the state of Europe today?
Plain in simple Europe is changing! Not solely in the sense of Donald Rumsfeld’s charge of Old Europe v. New Europe, but it is changing in its dynamic to address or un-address these new arenas that have given Europe a new racial make up, economic structures, political ideology, cultural traditions, and religious identity. The Browning of Europe tries to draw attention to some of these changes and relate how Western Europe or the European Union states specifically, should be examining these Multicultural Challenges and Perspectives of what is a changing Europe.
I feel the book opens up a frank and honest discussion about how race, class, ethnicity, religion, culture, and diversity are viewed under the microscope of multiculturalism in Europe. I wanted to know what is the response of Europeans of this change in demographic. So I interviewed, surveyed, and met with close to 500 people and traveled to London, Paris, and areas throughout Germany such as Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, and spoke with other Europeans from Spain to Sweden about the issues I address in my book.
I wanted to write with an intended edginess which allowed me to take on some of these cultural issues that are rarely found in one book on multiculturalism. My offering of these diverse themes critically examines the dilemma of multiculturalism in Europe to Islamophobia, Immigration, Afro-Germans or Black Germans, Europe’s corporate diversity agenda, and even Hip Hop’s musical place and influence in Europe.
So, those of you expecting a literary report of the travel channel, this is not the book for you, and those of you who expect the best places and faces of Europe this is not the book. Now some of you may have asked “What is the Browning of Europe”.
The title “Browning of Europe” is the description of how a once-dominant classically defined white Europe is slowly but surely changing in its racial, ethnic, religious and cultural composition. While each European nation is different as all of you should well know, they all do share some agenda’s that fit into the socio-cultural issues that I address. And while there a great number of issues that I can address with you, due to my limited time here today, I will only focus on few main points.
My presentation today will focus on the following:
What is a Browning of Europe, in overview of Europe’s cultural change!
Europe’s Immigration Dilemma, Racial Politics and Cultural Attitudes and Identification!
Islamophobia and the rise of Islam in Europe!
What is the Browning of Europe, in overview of Europe’s cultural change?
I remember living in Germany and a friend of mine there telling me a story of how one day he took a cab to across town for a meeting. So on the way there, the cab driver and my friend chatted over general conversation, weather, tourists, sports, etc. So after sometime, the driver asked my friend “So how long have you been in Germany”. My friend paused for a second and kind of was like why would this guy ask this question….so he said “All my life, I was born in Germany”. With his Bavarian German accent, the driver says…”Ohh, I was wondering because your German is so excellent”. Then my friend tells the guy that his father came to Germany in the 1950’s from Africa and that his mother is German born in Munich. The driver than said he would have never known because he does not look “German”.
So on thinking on that story, I am always reminded of how people imagine what being European is as way of social classification. This is part of the examination that I am trying to convey to Europeans as well as American readers. You see, my friend like many other non-white Europeans are faced with these and other more degrading cultural examinations in there daily life.
Yet, there is perhaps no continent more intriguing in the world today, than Europe. On one side you have Eastern Europe, with its break away nations from the former USSR and on the other Western Europe with its emerging constitutional super-state nations of the European Union.
In studying Western Europe today, it is not the same continental region that it was during the World War 1 or 2, and it is not the one it was two decades ago or even one decade ago. This Browning of Europe is not to bash Europe, its peoples, societies, and cultures, but bring to perspectives within the identity question. The true question is “How is the racialization of Europe changing the landscape of the continent”. Europe has become a continent about borders, language, and culture, issues that are of similar concern here in America!
I knew in writing this book I would have to answer to what does the title mean. In one sense of it all we can look at as a multicultural Europe. What is a Multicultural Europe? Is it a Europe that is recognized as embracing and welcoming to diverse races, ethnicities, cultures, religions and so on? One would think so, but that alone does not tell the full story of this Browning of Europe dilemma I address. When we think of a Multicultural America, it is very easy for us to think of a America is a diverse nation. The American project has been a success because the identity of America is based on the immigration and the enrich diversity of its residents and citizens and the value that each brings. One on America can hold on to his or her home roots, while embracing the enrichment of being truly American. But this diversity enrichment is not the same as equality and partnership in the socio-economic-political institutional structure. This is because the structure of institutions in America were built on a platform of racism, discrimination, separatism, classism, and elitism embedded with a long historical cultural clash between white, black, brown, and yellow. Therefore the project of multiculturalism has to be transformed in the way of developing more equitable opportunity and partnerships which do not cloak in good old boy networks. Our old idea’s of what America is and who is American, is one that is now more broadly defined. Although authentically connected, an American identity today is one that is connected to the region demographic of North, Central, and South. It is not one that is super imposed to the United States of America agenda driven classification. And for true American sociology and cultural studies it should be given more discussion and topic. Today in Europe, the picture of diverse communities is growing at a rate that is alarming to many in the indigenous white majority. This white majority which has enjoyed the benefits of its culture and racial hegemony through the means of wealth, class, and power feels the pressure that it is losing its grip to control these structural mechanisms. Meaning white privilege benefits are being challenged.
A multicultural Europe today is one that includes millions of Middle Easterners, Asians, Africans, North Americans, South Americans, and everyone in between who call the continent their home.
It is definitely a far-distant change from the ancestral heritages of the distinctive Nordic, Scandinavian, Germanic, Frankish, and Anglo-Saxon peoples to a Browning of Europe. The Browning of Europe is the new Europe, it is a continent modernly transformed into the West’s newest frontier in the colorization of a continent and people. When one discusses the current civilization of European peoples, that discussion must include the various segments of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. Yet the thought that Europe is now made up of diverse multicultural identities and societies is becoming increasingly troubling to some, while encouraging for others. This unsettled view of a rising multicultural Europe is taking shape because there is a need of population and diverse growth in all of Europe’s societal sectors. In some ways the arguments are as much about the acceptance of outsiders and foreigners as it is about Europe having to deal with such a multitude of races, ethnicities, and religions entering into the land. Now, many of Europe’s emerging residents and citizen’s do not consider what is happening as a mere phenomenon of relocation or temporary convenience, but feel their growth is enriching Europe’s cultural diversity and identity by allowing more people, in particular those of color, to establish roots on the continent. There are various groups be they racial, ethnic, or religious minorities that live on the continent that are empowering themselves politically, socially, economically, and culturally. Through this empowerment it is creating a push-pull socio-political dynamic that is threatening to the white majority especially the political and cultural white elite. Symbols of this are brought about through the increased activity by right wing and conservative political dogma attacking anything of what is perceived to be non-European. Even the formation of the European Union has had to look more closely at the evolvement of European identity as it realizes the future of Europe will need and depend upon immigration. The continent by and large is facing population decline, workforce shortages, cultural ineptness, and political and economic dysfunction. My research and analysis works to answer why there is this large level of inability to address the poverty and the poorly skilled nationals as well as unskilled and uneducated immigrants. More directly, European nations have failed to redistribute out placed workers into new vocations, which in turn will help offset workforce shortages. Much of what is happening today is a fact that these groups are seeking to interpret a new and different standard of religious, racial, and cultural identification for Europe. This new standard is changing the view that the image of Europe is one in terms of white identification or definition. However what is considered to be traditional ideas and images of a diverse Europe has changed over the course of the last twenty-five years. At one time the idea of diversity meant simply accepting your European neighbor! Diversity has long been symbolized to inclusiveness with minority communities. When we talk of multiculturalism we are talking about how these societies come to accept and deal with cultural identification in a much broader way of shared connectivity.
Multiculturalism has become the worldwide symbol of establishing harmonious pluralistic societies. In the eyes of multiculturalism, everyone’s race, ethnicity, culture and even life experiences are seen as important and relevant to producing an inclusive and constructive society that operates on a shared value system intra societal appreciation whether they are from a majority or minority defined group.
I am not saying this to interject some pie in sky multicultural idea of a utopian Europe. However, what I am saying is that those experiences rests in that people of different racial, ethnic, cultural distinction have equitable opportunity to come together under these conditions.
There lives are often more bridged by social and economic opportunity and cultural location. This is the symbolic vision of multiculturalism, that it can bring together people of different backgrounds for the purpose of a common goal or objective, something which makes cultures.his The degree to which social engineering has tried to create true inclusiveness is always perceived as the byway of inclusion. Europe’s multiculturalism project has been put on the corporate, social, economic, political table for this reason. Today the multicultural issue is no longer solely raced-based, but of religious, ethnic, and of other cultural dimensions. All of the various groups have come to present their agenda as under attack. This has not been met with indifferent resignation. Segmented issues are still of concern to differing groups of people. European nations are triggering a resounding debate about race, ethnicity, immigration, and culture today as a result of this change process.
For the most part, the European attitude towards diverse racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural issues is not viewed the same as here in America. Europeans mostly liberal in their political views tend to be viewed more conservatively on the issue of multiculturalism. This is to say that there is strong view to examine multiculturalism much more by nationality or cultural status, and less by racial composition. Around the European continent today, the question of multiculturalism is continues to be one of the many table-talk issues facing older and younger generations.
An Open Discussion
April 18, 2006
Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA. USA
Good Afternoon, In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful, and peace be upon you. I am honored to be here today. I want to thank my host of this invitation Dr. Pamela Lindell, I want to also thank student assistant Amber for her help today, as well as the faculty and student body and supporting members and friends of Sacramento City College for coming out this afternoon.
It is always an honor to for me to speak within the college community because I enjoy the environment and think back on my own academic experiences as an undergraduate student and what it meant to hear a speaker talk about a relative or current event topic.
My interest in Racial and Cultural Studies began as a long journey of being groomed by activists and the leaders and heroes and heroines who always have stood out against racial injustice and discrimination. Likewise, I have always had in interest in how people from different communities deal with the racial conversation. This has always been apart of the conversation that I have been probing whether socially or professionally. I am someone who grew up as not wanting to be shaped solely by my own environment, because if I had, I would not be here today. So my academic and career shaping has largely come from my interest in Ethnic Studies, Sociology and Cultural Diversity management.
After years of researching issues related to race, culture, and society as well facilitating diversity training programs, I decided to take my energies to type and construct some serious thought as to how racial issues affect the thought patterns, images, and identifications that come to classify us into our segmented communities. In writing this book project I knew I could offer some very unique expertise and perspectives as a African-American, Male, Multicultural Competency expert, community activist, Muslim, and writer.
During the day’s after the September 11, 2001 attacks there was a great deal of public discussion about how the definition of being “American” has changed. Many people were of the mindset that why cant we as all American citizen’s now just be Americans; rather than why does one group or another need or have to be symbolized by these hyphenated definitions such as African-American, Irish-American, Italian-American, etc.. And while I may agree to that point on some extent, at the same time how valid of a point is it in the face of this nation’s history as it relates to race and racism. Racism and discrimination in America did not end on 9-11-01, as soon as that happens then I think that it will make for a more valid point. That is to say, that in describing myself as an African American it does not take away from me being more or less an American citizen or the identity that we have as Americans. As we all know this nation was constructed through a path of immigration, slavery, and people movement be it voluntarily or involuntarily. So the identity that one may possess thus does not change because of residence.
My experience went from being stopped for DWB (Driving While Black), before 9/11 to FWM (Flying While Muslim) afterwards. But what I think is most relevant is that one must maintain self awareness of race, culture, or religion, etc. when it comes to the climate and environment in our society.
While it has been 2 years since my book’s release the events that I will address with you here today are still taking place in Europe. Issues related to Europe’s cross cultural bridge with its Muslim communities and populations, the riots in France 1 and 2, and the London and Madrid attacks just to name a few. However these issues also connect to the discussion of where the patterns and identifications of race, culture, and religion meet in Europe. I have always admired the various nationalities and peoples of Europe. And, while I have enjoyed everything about Europe and Europeans, from their food to history to their culture and traditions, I have also been strongly interested in the racial dynamic and mix, including how are black populations being treated there. And prior to traveling to the continent I had heard everything from them being treated very well and better than in America, to being treated worse than a second class citizen. Obviously it depends on what part of Europe you are in, but I can say from having lived there and traveling in parts of the continent for 2 years, I had seen some of both of these descriptions.
So when I started my project, I was doing it purely to gain a better understanding about what some of these experiences were and what was it like being a person of color in Europe. As a first time author of this sort, I knew and understood in writing a book that it had to be written to provide and raise a critical dialogue to serious issues of importance that I feel are often missed by many writers and cultural analysts. My focus was to tell a story that is often not heard, and develop broader cultural understanding and meaning about what I see as this Browning of Europe. I decided to write a book that focuses on the trends related to multiculturalism in Europe as well as equally examine and respond with my own experience and expertise as to what the racial, religious, and other cultural trends will mean and how are they affecting large segments of modern European society. What is unique here is the examination and the apparent paradox between Europe's ongoing plans for integration, and the continent's enduring cultural, political, and economic diversity.
So what is the state of Europe today?
Plain in simple Europe is changing! Not solely in the sense of Donald Rumsfeld’s charge of Old Europe v. New Europe, but it is changing in its dynamic to address or un-address these new arenas that have given Europe a new racial make up, economic structures, political ideology, cultural traditions, and religious identity. The Browning of Europe tries to draw attention to some of these changes and relate how Western Europe or the European Union states specifically, should be examining these Multicultural Challenges and Perspectives of what is a changing Europe.
I feel the book opens up a frank and honest discussion about how race, class, ethnicity, religion, culture, and diversity are viewed under the microscope of multiculturalism in Europe. I wanted to know what is the response of Europeans of this change in demographic. So I interviewed, surveyed, and met with close to 500 people and traveled to London, Paris, and areas throughout Germany such as Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, and spoke with other Europeans from Spain to Sweden about the issues I address in my book.
I wanted to write with an intended edginess which allowed me to take on some of these cultural issues that are rarely found in one book on multiculturalism. My offering of these diverse themes critically examines the dilemma of multiculturalism in Europe to Islamophobia, Immigration, Afro-Germans or Black Germans, Europe’s corporate diversity agenda, and even Hip Hop’s musical place and influence in Europe.
So, those of you expecting a literary report of the travel channel, this is not the book for you, and those of you who expect the best places and faces of Europe this is not the book. Now some of you may have asked “What is the Browning of Europe”.
The title “Browning of Europe” is the description of how a once-dominant classically defined white Europe is slowly but surely changing in its racial, ethnic, religious and cultural composition. While each European nation is different as all of you should well know, they all do share some agenda’s that fit into the socio-cultural issues that I address. And while there a great number of issues that I can address with you, due to my limited time here today, I will only focus on few main points.
My presentation today will focus on the following:
What is a Browning of Europe, in overview of Europe’s cultural change!
Europe’s Immigration Dilemma, Racial Politics and Cultural Attitudes and Identification!
Islamophobia and the rise of Islam in Europe!
What is the Browning of Europe, in overview of Europe’s cultural change?
I remember living in Germany and a friend of mine there telling me a story of how one day he took a cab to across town for a meeting. So on the way there, the cab driver and my friend chatted over general conversation, weather, tourists, sports, etc. So after sometime, the driver asked my friend “So how long have you been in Germany”. My friend paused for a second and kind of was like why would this guy ask this question….so he said “All my life, I was born in Germany”. With his Bavarian German accent, the driver says…”Ohh, I was wondering because your German is so excellent”. Then my friend tells the guy that his father came to Germany in the 1950’s from Africa and that his mother is German born in Munich. The driver than said he would have never known because he does not look “German”.
So on thinking on that story, I am always reminded of how people imagine what being European is as way of social classification. This is part of the examination that I am trying to convey to Europeans as well as American readers. You see, my friend like many other non-white Europeans are faced with these and other more degrading cultural examinations in there daily life.
Yet, there is perhaps no continent more intriguing in the world today, than Europe. On one side you have Eastern Europe, with its break away nations from the former USSR and on the other Western Europe with its emerging constitutional super-state nations of the European Union.
In studying Western Europe today, it is not the same continental region that it was during the World War 1 or 2, and it is not the one it was two decades ago or even one decade ago. This Browning of Europe is not to bash Europe, its peoples, societies, and cultures, but bring to perspectives within the identity question. The true question is “How is the racialization of Europe changing the landscape of the continent”. Europe has become a continent about borders, language, and culture, issues that are of similar concern here in America!
I knew in writing this book I would have to answer to what does the title mean. In one sense of it all we can look at as a multicultural Europe. What is a Multicultural Europe? Is it a Europe that is recognized as embracing and welcoming to diverse races, ethnicities, cultures, religions and so on? One would think so, but that alone does not tell the full story of this Browning of Europe dilemma I address. When we think of a Multicultural America, it is very easy for us to think of a America is a diverse nation. The American project has been a success because the identity of America is based on the immigration and the enrich diversity of its residents and citizens and the value that each brings. One on America can hold on to his or her home roots, while embracing the enrichment of being truly American. But this diversity enrichment is not the same as equality and partnership in the socio-economic-political institutional structure. This is because the structure of institutions in America were built on a platform of racism, discrimination, separatism, classism, and elitism embedded with a long historical cultural clash between white, black, brown, and yellow. Therefore the project of multiculturalism has to be transformed in the way of developing more equitable opportunity and partnerships which do not cloak in good old boy networks. Our old idea’s of what America is and who is American, is one that is now more broadly defined. Although authentically connected, an American identity today is one that is connected to the region demographic of North, Central, and South. It is not one that is super imposed to the United States of America agenda driven classification. And for true American sociology and cultural studies it should be given more discussion and topic. Today in Europe, the picture of diverse communities is growing at a rate that is alarming to many in the indigenous white majority. This white majority which has enjoyed the benefits of its culture and racial hegemony through the means of wealth, class, and power feels the pressure that it is losing its grip to control these structural mechanisms. Meaning white privilege benefits are being challenged.
A multicultural Europe today is one that includes millions of Middle Easterners, Asians, Africans, North Americans, South Americans, and everyone in between who call the continent their home.
It is definitely a far-distant change from the ancestral heritages of the distinctive Nordic, Scandinavian, Germanic, Frankish, and Anglo-Saxon peoples to a Browning of Europe. The Browning of Europe is the new Europe, it is a continent modernly transformed into the West’s newest frontier in the colorization of a continent and people. When one discusses the current civilization of European peoples, that discussion must include the various segments of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. Yet the thought that Europe is now made up of diverse multicultural identities and societies is becoming increasingly troubling to some, while encouraging for others. This unsettled view of a rising multicultural Europe is taking shape because there is a need of population and diverse growth in all of Europe’s societal sectors. In some ways the arguments are as much about the acceptance of outsiders and foreigners as it is about Europe having to deal with such a multitude of races, ethnicities, and religions entering into the land. Now, many of Europe’s emerging residents and citizen’s do not consider what is happening as a mere phenomenon of relocation or temporary convenience, but feel their growth is enriching Europe’s cultural diversity and identity by allowing more people, in particular those of color, to establish roots on the continent. There are various groups be they racial, ethnic, or religious minorities that live on the continent that are empowering themselves politically, socially, economically, and culturally. Through this empowerment it is creating a push-pull socio-political dynamic that is threatening to the white majority especially the political and cultural white elite. Symbols of this are brought about through the increased activity by right wing and conservative political dogma attacking anything of what is perceived to be non-European. Even the formation of the European Union has had to look more closely at the evolvement of European identity as it realizes the future of Europe will need and depend upon immigration. The continent by and large is facing population decline, workforce shortages, cultural ineptness, and political and economic dysfunction. My research and analysis works to answer why there is this large level of inability to address the poverty and the poorly skilled nationals as well as unskilled and uneducated immigrants. More directly, European nations have failed to redistribute out placed workers into new vocations, which in turn will help offset workforce shortages. Much of what is happening today is a fact that these groups are seeking to interpret a new and different standard of religious, racial, and cultural identification for Europe. This new standard is changing the view that the image of Europe is one in terms of white identification or definition. However what is considered to be traditional ideas and images of a diverse Europe has changed over the course of the last twenty-five years. At one time the idea of diversity meant simply accepting your European neighbor! Diversity has long been symbolized to inclusiveness with minority communities. When we talk of multiculturalism we are talking about how these societies come to accept and deal with cultural identification in a much broader way of shared connectivity.
Multiculturalism has become the worldwide symbol of establishing harmonious pluralistic societies. In the eyes of multiculturalism, everyone’s race, ethnicity, culture and even life experiences are seen as important and relevant to producing an inclusive and constructive society that operates on a shared value system intra societal appreciation whether they are from a majority or minority defined group.
I am not saying this to interject some pie in sky multicultural idea of a utopian Europe. However, what I am saying is that those experiences rests in that people of different racial, ethnic, cultural distinction have equitable opportunity to come together under these conditions.
There lives are often more bridged by social and economic opportunity and cultural location. This is the symbolic vision of multiculturalism, that it can bring together people of different backgrounds for the purpose of a common goal or objective, something which makes cultures.his The degree to which social engineering has tried to create true inclusiveness is always perceived as the byway of inclusion. Europe’s multiculturalism project has been put on the corporate, social, economic, political table for this reason. Today the multicultural issue is no longer solely raced-based, but of religious, ethnic, and of other cultural dimensions. All of the various groups have come to present their agenda as under attack. This has not been met with indifferent resignation. Segmented issues are still of concern to differing groups of people. European nations are triggering a resounding debate about race, ethnicity, immigration, and culture today as a result of this change process.
For the most part, the European attitude towards diverse racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural issues is not viewed the same as here in America. Europeans mostly liberal in their political views tend to be viewed more conservatively on the issue of multiculturalism. This is to say that there is strong view to examine multiculturalism much more by nationality or cultural status, and less by racial composition. Around the European continent today, the question of multiculturalism is continues to be one of the many table-talk issues facing older and younger generations.
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