Multiculturism

[shadowfax1007]

Is your country multicultural? If so, what are your opinions on it?

Im Australian, and we have to be one of the biggest multicultural countries in the world. I personally, dont mind at all, we all live peacefully together and function normally. Although I am against the Americanisation of Australia. Our country is becoming too much like america because our PM is sitting in Bush's back pocket the whole time. Im not anti-american, i have american mates, Im just against the americanisation of our country.

 

[Stenners]

UK is the prime example of mixed race and culture dating back way in the early days where we got invaded and raped by every race going. It's either the UK or US that has the highest rate of mixed race in the world, were I live it's very multi cultured I personally like it.

Basically the way I see it within 5 mins I have the choice to eat English,Itallian,Asian or Mexican food and this isnt the main food area of Brighton

 

[Lyson]

Well being from South Africa I'd say **** yeah. I dont know if its common knowledge, but SA is known as the rainbow nation. 11 different languages and like 15 different nations of people.

Personally I hate it...I wont say why...but I do...

 

[Sygy]

London is so multicultural, and so are the other major cities in England but once you get out of the city and into the countryside bacially everyones white. The problem happening in england right now is the BNP, unfortunatly.

Another place which is very multicultural is Belgium. i love the country.

About America, sure it has many different types of people living there but as i see it they dont tend to mix as much as they do in England. And everytime i go to America i dont see as many mixedraced ppl as in do in england. Another thing about America is everytime i go i alway tend to get into some race related fight, not with white ppl but with black ppl. bc once i was with my dad and i was walking down the street in Broklyn(sp?) and they black guys were shouting at me and saying stuff like 'your dad's white, that soo gross'. but anyho, thats my rambling for the day done!

 

[Greyfoxx]

the US is VERY multicultrual and i love it. it shows what other people of different places are like, but, some people from different places dont like eachother so then we may have some street wars against people(havent had on for a while) but other than that....i say its pretty much how we live, we experiance different people daily and we dont mind at all, i mean, if you goto the mall, or the grocery store, you see at least 15 different types of people and they all get along, for the msot part.

 

[Victim]

As said before.. The U.S. is filled with many diffrent cultures.. Hence the "Great American Melting Pot" - School House Rock.. But most people have now been calling it a "Salad Bowl" instead.. Because instead of melting, we tend to stick out from each other, because some people don't go well together.. Once again, this subject can go back to Pearl Harbor, or Sep. 11.. Alot of because started getting sceptical of certain cultures because of those two events.

I myself have many friends who are diffrent, and we all get along great.. The way you feel about certain people can have alot to do with how you grow up... Living in the south and growing up, alot of people I know don't really like the African American race...(no offense meant to anyone)..

I wasn't born here and wasn't really raised here, so I have no probelm with black people.. Infact, one of my best friends was black..and now one of my best friends is Asian..

And then you got some people who just don't like people because of where they grew up.. Because if you are from so and so you are just ignorant..

I get along with alot of people.. But that doesn't mean the number of people who are accepting outnumber the narrowminded who believe all people diffrent from them are hethens.

 

[burning monk]

It may come as a surprise to most people, but Egypt is also quite multicultural. We have people of Greek, Armenian, Sudanese, French, English amd Turkish ancestry. It's always been considered a pretty tolerant country in general..

 

[ImTheOneThatFalls]

I'm Colombian.

And a **** load of more **** like...

Japanese.

German.

Italian.

Egyptian.

Spanish.

Cuban.

Puerto Rican.

Haitian.

but I was born here in the US. And I live in a very hispanic area. We do have alot of different cultures though. I mean alot. Name it and I know atleast one person that from there.

 

[Black_Angel]

In the town where I'm from almost everyone is white, but if you travel to Manchester or Liverpool it's more multicultural.

 

[Friðbjörn]

Iceland's been opening it's doors lately, especially with the EU/EFTA treaty about free flow of work power which kicked in May 1st I think.

This country is mostly though like it has always been, all white.

Until, say, 15 years ago, 99% of Icelanders were all one big mix of people of the same ancestry, which is Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Irish, Scottish, Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands.

Nowadays there's a slight many people here, that aren't white. Mostly from Southeast Asia. A lot of foreign workers are from Poland and other Eastern European countries, so they look just as white as the rest, so it's only a handful that is not. When I go out into public, seeing a person with dark skin is something that almost never happens.

Asians are quite common, actually quite a lot common when I think about it, but other races, like Hispanics or Blacks are very few. I think I've seen a black person with my own eyes like 4-5 times in my life. Kinda sad, I think.

So, as far as races go, we're not that diverse.

But it's different with cultural habits and such. Iceland lost most it's culture in the 20th century. Our culture was basicly based on traditional poetry, farming, hard-work, and dutifulness. And some weird food and clothing. The language says it too, it was a staid society, and the language is very old, very old. And seeing as it's so old, the vocab was by a large part lost. One thing that has remained is the cashualness in it. Iceland and the language here, are extremely cashual things. We're 300,000, everyone knows everyone.

And that perhaps makes it easier for foreigners to settle here, we're so cashual about it.

I think although it's a very undiverse society, we're open for other cultures. We're kinda between American and European thinking and culture. And I mean, things like Islam, Yoga, Asian food, Mexican food, hip hop, these are all well taken and welcomed things here, for which I am glad.