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It's a slow process Freediver. I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I was expecting miracles. There are small, but practical steps that can be taken.


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Okay... if there are a number of cultures in the same area, that's 'multiculturalism.' Can you please specify when and where two or more cultures were living together in Europe during the 19th century? Thanks.


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What the? What are you talking about? And how am I inaccurate with assuming that you were implying it with a quote like... "Most of what the west has produced in the last few centuries came out of multicultural societies."

That's an extremely straight forward statement.

You said it. Not me.


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You threw in the words... 'evil,' 'fear,' 'craziness,' 'psychotic' and 'lunatics' to describe Nazi Germany, Freediver. You're bigoted. End of story. You're not worth arguing with on the subject. Let's switch to a case study where you'll judge facts instead of what SOCIETY telling you what to think.


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OMFG. So you're basing it all off 5 words?


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If my history knowledge serves me correctly, Freediver, it's never been proven that the Nazis lit that fire. In fact, wasn't a communist charged with that fire?

i would agree with dt in saying that euro was largly monocultural. Aside from the jews and gypsies (who were both outcasts) most nations had only one culture, race and culture are different things. The exception is Austria-hungary, which may i ad fell apart due to cultural tensions.

list of multicultural empiresempires which accepted or promoted more than one language and culture

1. Austria-hungary
2. mongolian empire
3. Holy Roman empire

list of monocultural empires empires which promote or accept only one culture and language.
1. Rome
2. Britain
3. China
4. Babylon
5. Ottoman

the list for successful monocultural empires could be extended much further. the trend seems to be with multicultural empires isone of instability under pressure, while monocultural empires seems much more unified.

because in every nation it colonized only one culture was promoted. Every other culture was quashed under the british philosophy. English was the language taught in every school in the british empire. Every nation celebrated Empire day. The religion promoted and often the only religious practice accepted was anglicanism. Most significantly though was the idea the british had of making the world british. When they colonised like many other colonial counterparts the english went about making the inhabitants british, changing the way they dressed, what they ate, etc.

In a multiculteral empire the british would have let the nations they conquered continue their old practices, which they clearly did not do.

freediver wrote on Jul 26^th, 2007 at 5:17pm:



i dont really know how you can be called multicultural if your policies are against multiculuralism... Australia only became a multicultural nation in 1974 when our policies changed, thats not to say that there was not people of different cultural background already living here.

besides which i owuld say that britain was successful due to its maritime power, which was not matched by anyone, not even france.

an empire they held together through red coats

i agree though it is not binary, however i believe their goal was a monoculture, and the did succeed to a great extent in achieving it.

one of their goals was money, but the governement was more concerned with the greatness of the empire, and thus the greatness of englishism.

so you agree then they were interested in britainising the world