Multiculturalism Has Had a Rough Start

In Europe, Islamophobia emerged together with new anti-Semitism, where the targets are the new immigrants, Muslims, as well as Jews. The reason for that is in France and United Kingdom, Muslims and Jews for the past decade inhabit the poorest neighborhoods. Media, on the other hand, portrays this as an incapability of Muslim immigrants to integrate into European society and susceptibility to the imported Islamist ideologies (Silverstein, 367).

When most immigrants move into America, they are greeted with much tension and conflict. There is still some discrimination between races, as much as American’s

This is due to its relatively homogeneous population of 5.4 million, a strong sense of national identity, and the fact that, until recently, immigration flows were moderate. Most immigrants in Denmark came from other Nordic or Western countries, and the country experienced more emigration than immigration. The problems the Danish welfare state faces in terms of integrating immigrants are rooted in two interconnected phenomena. One is that the government and the public believe the continued success of Denmark depends on cultural homogeneity. The second is that policies of entry and integration have been inadequately geared to distinguishing between different "categories" of immigrants (e.g. economic migrants versus refugees, male versus female immigrants, Muslim versus non-Muslim), and have also been unprepared for the increase in the number of refugees and family dependents. However, since politicians and the public are beginning to realize that Denmark will need more immigrants in order to cope with the an ageing population and to ensure a sufficient supply of skilled as well as unskilled workers to a booming economy, there are a number of concrete changes in immigration policies. They include automatic citizenship for children born and raised in Denmark, regardless of their parents’ citizenship; equal welfare rights for immigrants and Danes; vast reductions in application fees and cash securities; expanded work benefits

Despite the all evidences that politics is allowing all kind of cultural diversity to grow within same territory. Those countries which have different cultures are trying to make their state a multicultural state in order to live with peace, for growth and development. This paper discusses about the past present and future of multiculturalism. Cultural diversity from very beginning was existing in different nation There are Jews in Germany, Poles in Ireland, Asians in Canada and so on but the level at which Multiculturalism have reached today became a political issue for those countries which have cultural diversities. People of different cultural diversity are enjoying the same rights and people are practicing different cultures as and extended form of their liberty. People have the freedom to do whatever they want but with in the framework of laws.So the people are exercising the libety of practicing their own culture.There is a discussion about remarkable history of multiculturalism, present position of multiculturalism and the future of multiculturalism. There is advancement is polity for a better sustainment of a country with diversity in culture of people. This popular master narrative is too quick to herald the death of multiculturalism, and mischaracterizes the nature of the experiments undertaken, exaggerates the extent to which they have been abandoned, and misidentifies not only the limitations encountered but also the options for addressing these

There was a survey taken that showed that one out of four Norwegians felt some sort of hostility towards other immigrants. ("Norway", 1997). The Norwegians are also very religious and hold their beliefs strongly, which is another reason that the racism occurs within their country.

On the contrary, opposite views are common to. These come around from past experices, traumas with other people in a culture. The conflicts lead the people away from excepting immigrants. This has become

“Multiculturalism exists when people accept and encourage many cultures to thrive in a society. Multiculturalism can lead to many great outcomes, including racial and ethnic harmony, which simply means that people from different backgrounds get along well together. Living with and accepting different cultures helps us understand each other and discourage hatred and violence.” () Furthermore, various ethnic groups introduce their individual beliefs, traditions, as well as, religions to the Canadian society. Generally speaking, be part of an expanding multicultural society has impacted Canada economically, demographically and socially. Thus, the presence of the variety of different cultures, languages and heritages, results in the need for the county to adapt and change, based on the new reality of Canada.

Finnish people aren’t the warmest people in the world, and I often hear foreigners accusing Finns of being unapproachable. I believe it is a cultural norm of ours to give people their space, when in other cultures you show intrest towards the person by indulging them in conversation.The biggest problem for immigrants is the language, which is arguebly a very tough one. Unemployment is also common for most foreigners,

The intolerance towards immigrants was portrayed in a very realistic way. According to Budhos’ book Ask Me No Questions, “In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. government began to crackdown on illegal immigrants and investigation of Muslim communities” (160). This quote is important because it shows the reason Nadira and her family even tried to leave the U.S. It also showed how the US began seeing all muslims and arabs as terrorist. The U.S. government became intolerant towards people of Arab and Muslim countries because of the actions of the 9/11 terrorists. As Smiley stated:

One of the greatest difficulties in intercultural relations is the acceptance of others due to the perceived threats and anxiety produced. The threat being that one will lose their culture, language, and ‘race’. These feelings give rise to the issue of racism, prejudice, and in some cases violence. With this in mind, we can begin to see why it is hard for some members of a host country to be accepting of immigrants. In Canada, 16% of Canadians believe immigrants take away jobs from locals (Ward & Masgoret, 2006). The increasing migration of immigrants has a strong impact on the host countries; one such impact is an incident in which a Sikh truck driver was physically assaulted in Canada despite Canada being portrayed as a cultural mosaic. Understanding

Although most immigration to Spain is of recent origin, racism in Spain is hardly new and goes back to the religious and political maltreatment of Jews, the Reconquista against the Arabs or 'Moors' and the colonization of the Americas as from the end of the 15th century Everyday forms of discrimination in housing, employment, services and other forms of collaboration are extensive, as are the prejudiced choice dissertations that express and spread the racist opinions and ideologies on which such practices are based. Furthermore, pain has tried to correct the ethnic purgative against Jews and Muslims (Arabs and Berbers) calling it "historical error" and inviting Jews back. During the decades of economic boom in the late 20th century, after joining the European Union, Spain had experienced a large arrival of immigrant workers to Spanish big cities from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, with the result of many employers preferring to hire foreign workers for a cheaper wage. On the other hand, dominant political dissertation of the conservative government unambiguously associates immigration with problems, illegality and delinquency, rather than with badly needed contributions to the economy or the demography of the

As we stepped in to 21st century, humankind still faces poverty, insecurity, diseases and warfare. Often causing massive amount of migration to a safer land that offers better and secure future. Immigration brings its own challenges that is almost unique for every immigrating humankind and hosting nation. Therefore, immigrants face issues that they have never faced or even thought about. Trying to cope through unseen issues and even putting core values on the line, immigrating often have very interesting challenges.

Multiculturalism has become the most debated topic in recent years. It influences economic and political decisions of the country. Many developed countries as like Canada welcome multiculturalism through various policies but for individuals it is a moral concern which they adopt through culture, religion, environment and political behavior of the country. Culture various from countries to countries and it is impossible to reform a new culture because it is in human norms. “People often believe things but they do not know why they believe it – emotional reaction” (Haidt, 2012).

Multiculturalism is the act of giving equivalent consideration regarding various foundations in a specific setting, and it can happen when a purview is made or extended by amalgamating zones with two or more diverse societies or through migration from various locales around the globe. Multiculturalism that seeks in keeping up the peculiarity of numerous societies is regularly differentiated to other settlement arrangements, for example, social mix, social osmosis, and racial isolation. Multiculturalism has been depicted as a "salad bowl" and "cultural mosaic" (Burgess, et al. 2005). In spite of the way that multiculturalism has predominantly been utilized as a term to characterize distraught gatherings, numerous scholars tend to center their contentions on outsiders who are ethnic and religious minorities, minority countries, and indigenous people groups. The term multiculturalism is frequently utilized as a part of a reference to Western country states, which

Many political leaders in Europe have declared that their attempts on multiculturalism have failed, “In October 2010, German Chancellor Angela Merkel proclaimed that a multicultural approach had ‘utterly failed’ in Germany. In February 2011, French President Nicolas Sarkozy also called multiculturalism a failure, and British Prime Minister David Cameron indicted his country’s policy as of multiculturalism for failing to promote a sense of common identity and encouraging Muslim segregation and radicalization.” (Bloemraad, I. 2011, page 1). Not only do political figures of European countries believe that multiculturalism has been a failure, but citizens of many European countries believe the same impression, as stated in Kenan Malik’s text ‘What is wrong with multiculturalism? A European Perspective’, there are three myths about immigration that have grounded the present-day view that multiculturalism as a political process has been unsuccessful. The first myth being that “European countries used to be homogenous but have been made diverse by mass immigration”, the second myth is “the claim that contemporary immigration to Europe is different, and in some eyes less assimilable, than previous waves” and the third myth is “European nations have become multicultural because minorities wished to assert their differences.” (Malik, K. 2012, pages 1 and 2). Malik then