That's rubbish. Of course you can have one without the other.

Which is what I said in my post. If you want clarity, try quoting more than half the sentence.

No, I meant that you can get cross breeding in time of war or by purchasing foreign women. Apart from that cross breeding will only occur in multicultural societies. By trying to remove the cultural differences you inevitably remove the people and the genetic variation that goes with them.

You might think that's what has happened, but in reality both cultures have changed into something new. The types of government policy you mentioned have little effect at all. What really matters is how accepting people are of other cultures. If you accept people, the cultures will mix. If you don't accept them they won't mix and you will end up with reduced immigration and multiculturalism the way you define it, which is different cultures living completely separate lives. It is the positive attitude towards other cultures which on the surface appears to support separate cultures, which actually encourages mixing of cultures. People only hold on to cultures when they feel it is being taken away from them. When it is paraded in front of everyone as something good they give it up because it is so embarassing.

They'd go away if people would stop encouraging it.

If they went away you would loose the genetics.

Association fallacy. Those dieases did not start because the societies were multicultural, or even because they had a different culture. Plenty of nasty diseases started in Europe before they recently began living in different rooms to their animals.

freediver wrote on May 29^th, 2007 at 5:13pm:


I see AusNat's point here, freediver.

I've heard that the reason aids actually came about was because Africans were having sex with monkeys...

Yes, that's right, monkeys...

So anyway, having sex with monkeys might be a particular 'cultural practice' in some parts of Africa... strange, but not impossible.

So the spread of aids technically stemmed from other cultures. But I guess one could argue that it wasn't actually 'cultures mixing' that caused the spread, but rather, 'races mixing.' But I don't have much knowledge on how the actual disease spread from one continent to the other. So it could very well be the mixture of cultures that allowed the disease to pass through continents.

Anyway, what we have to be careful of here... is to avoid mixing the topics 'race' and 'multiculturalism.' They are not of the same thing.

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This thread is aimed at LISTING the benefits and drawbacks of MULTICULTURALISM.

Is it really as good as people claim it is?
Or is it a dividing, useless, overrated policy like other people think it is.

Who knows? Maybe people can give me enough reasons to change my mind about the stupid policy that is Multiculturalism.


Multiculturalism

Cons:

[color=#cc0000]1) Alienates people.

  - pro- gives people more chance to find someone they have something in common with
2) Riots.

-pro- allows for a greater depth of empathy and understanding

3) Political correctness gone crazy (ie. Banning bibles in hospitals).
- pro - allows for chidlren to understand the importance of freedom of religion and thought  and how tio cater for the needs of diverse others

4) Community division.
- pro- colourful vibrant exciting community

5) Causes family breakdown.
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- pro- allows some families to survive who woudl die in their homeland

6) Increased crime levels.

- pro- increased small businesses and enterprise

7) Creates ethnic gangs.

- pro - pushes open the minds of the narrowminded and creates teh possibility of greater unity of human kind

8) Cultural apartheid.

-pro - people able to express themselves and feel at home

9) Social disharmony.

- pro- children who maat other childrne of different cultural backgrounds in schools to increase harmony between nations and cultures

10) Language difficulties.

-pro- resources for learning and practicing languages in the community

I could go on, but the point is that  all/most  your claims are a matter of viewpoint.

pro - there are fewer riots in multicultural societies

freediver wrote on Jun 26^th, 2007 at 3:06pm:


And you're basing this off what?