Multiculturalism has failed.

Europe begins to swing back to the right after this apocalyptic failure of ideology.

Multiculturalism has failed. These are the words of Angela Merkel, ex-Chancellor of Germany, spoken in 2010. Despite being one of the most instrumental architects of this far left ideology, even the ex-Chancellor had to admit that it had utterly and brutally failed, and has likely caused irreparable damage to her country. After watching the skyrocketing crime, rape, human trafficking, drug use, state dependency, and more, Ms Merkel had nothing left to stand on. What’s more, she realised she’d committed an atrocity upon Germany more than just the crime; she’d imported millions of people who hate Jews. Bit by bit, Ms Merkel and the ideological elite began to realise why backwards nations were backwards; it was because those people and their cultures were backwards. They had stone age beliefs about women, unveiled and uncloaked violent rage at homosexuality, catastrophic reprisals for ridiculing their religion, and a deep and permanent hatred of everything Western and everything outside of their own religion.

Multiculturalism is defined as the theory that incompatible cultures could be compatible together in one country, usually a Western country. This seems like a slightly facetious definition, but I can outline why I’ve put it this way. Amongst the indigenous Britons, there are several different cultures and ethnicities of people, with different histories, religions, gripes, songs, languages, and more. So to a degree, we already have, and have always had a multicultural society. You can say that about any European country, and of just about any other country in the world besides from maybe a few specific Pacific islands where the population is too small to be too culturally diverse.

The reason I say multiculturalism is defined as incompatible cultures living together is because the term multiculturalism isn’t a term associated with the different indigenous cultures of the United Kingdom. The term multiculturalism is used to describe foreign cultures being imported to live with indigenous cultures. I label them as incompatible because, despite the indigenous Britons all being from different cultures, they at least share a broad set of values. This broad set of values has been carved and chiseled down for millennia, as our culture develops and evolves, and as the people and society become historically more mature. These values include innocent until proven guilty, freedom to speak, freedom to assemble, democracy, individualism, equality, the rule of law, and progress.

What I mean by incompatible cultures is specifically those cultures that live by an antithetical set of philosophies. For example, in incompatible culture countries, you don’t have any level of free speech because some things and some people are so sacred and important in their culture that no common man may speak against them or ridicule them. You will also not be treated as an individual but rather as a mouthpiece or tool of your group; their crimes will be your crimes, and vice versa virtues. Many of these cultures may have written laws, but their government or their supreme leader will have great control of the authorities and the military, and will use them to squash anything that the leader wishes to squash. Some even consider female adultery to be a crime that should be punished swiftly by execution. Add to this, the simple and instant violent reaction some cultures have to homosexuality, and between that and the previous examples, you might begin to understand why I define multiculturalism as incompatible cultures in one country.

It’s not even to say that those opinions are wrong. I’m sure a well spoken individual from that culture could speak positively about why they hold their religion so far above their head, why they think it’s right to resort to ridicule with violence, why women live as second class citizens, why they execute homosexuals; and they’d likely put it in different terms than I do, but this is how I, and the West, see it. Maybe their religions or leaders are truly appointed by their gods and we in the West are actually all the apostates and evil ones that seek to lead them astray. But know that I am not saying that some foreign culture values are necessarily “wrong”, just incompatible with how we view ourselves and society from a cultural perspective.

The line between compatible and incompatible cultures is not necessarily a line drawn down ethnic or skin-colour lines. For example, Ghanaians find great success living in the United Kingdom because Ghana has a culture of working hard, being family oriented, education focused, and generally approaching other people with a “live and let live” attitude. This line isn’t even drawn country to country; Sikh culture is also highly compatible with Western values for the same reasons. Both these groups, and more, aren’t from cultures that resort instantly to violence for speech or religious infractions. One might consider these to be compatible cultures with Western values.

So multiculturalism, the word as it is used today, and in relation to far left ideology, is a term used to describe incompatible cultures living amongst each other. In the United Kingdom, despite the different cultures and ethnicities that have always made up this island, the broad set of values that are the results of millennia of development unite both indigenous and some foreign cultures that also share those values. It is only those values that have allowed the United Kingdom to exist in such a level of prosperity, abundance, and opportunity. The more freedom people had, the more we prospered. The more freedom the market had, we had more abundance. The more freedom our society had, the more we had opportunity.

In regards to freedom of speech, there are many cultures around the world that are incompatible with this value. Speech has many facets, and includes writing, publishing, drawing, all within an unrestricted manner. We traditionally (until recently) had only a few specific offences in speech, such as subborning murder. The UK has quite a long and storied history about how we approach speech in such a free manner. Writers, playwrights, poets, philosophers, all of these and more make up a great number of the people we hold with high regard from our history. Free speech has long been a part of the history of our shared cultures. People have ridiculed religion, science, royalty, people of great importance, anyone, for millennia. Consider the concept of the Court Jester; such a position was no fairy tale. A great deal of philosophy around humour and personal emotional maturity come from this great institution that even kings and queens knew were deeply important, even if sometimes uncomfortable to hear. Humour holds a mirror to society, and demands you not take yourself and the world too seriously. This is in direct contradiction to many cultures where the response to criticism is often violence, as is the same in response to ridicule or inconvenient truths. The world watched in horror as the Islamic world descended into apocalyptic chaos over an obscure French magazines depiction of Prophet Muhammed, even resulting in a brutal terrorist attack that drew much celebration from Muslims in intolerant societies.

There are a variety of beliefs born out of the West that aren’t shared with many cultures around the world. Human Rights are sets of values that enshrine many of our most important rights, and are typically the way in which Western societies judge all societies. Does the government or those authorities in charge commit “human rights abuses”? It’s such a serious topic to Western societies that answering “yes” to that question is one of the most serious condemnations one can make of a foreign nation, and has often been used as a base from which to justify military intervention. Hand in hand with the vales of Human Rights are the values around Equality. Are all people considered “Equal” in that society? The concept that there are higher and lower class citizens in a foreign nation traditionally warrants a disgust reaction by Western people. The West even has unique values in relation to military action; the concept of War Crimes. Where for thousands of years war inevitably meant destroying armies, murdering citizens, enslaving and raping the rest as well as razing the offending civilisation to the ground, now we have rules in combat. We also have a Geneva Convention and other international treaties that forbid some types of weapons, be they too indiscriminate, or too destructive. These aren’t beliefs that are shared with some cultures around the world, rendering them incompatible with life in the West. Not only do those incompatible cultures not share Western values, but the West does not share many of those vices found in incompatible cultures. One can quickly rattle off many of these foreign culture practices that are highly incompatible with the West; child marriage, female genital mutilation, honour killings, stoning to death, torture, imprisoning political opponents, the list can go on and on.

Lacking the Western value of Equality is another area where so many of the foreign and incompatible cultures clash hard against each other. In incompatible cultures, there are entire ethnicities and groups of people that experience enormous abuse at the hands of more powerful ethnicities and groups. In some of these foreign nations, this very act of oppression is enshrined in law. In Burma and China, Muslim minorities are castigated by their respective governments. In both cases, they are denied recognition, human rights, citizenship, and are often the subjects of state violence. On the flip side, in Saudi Arabia it is against the law to build houses of worship for any religion other than Islam. India is an immediately obvious example of this also, with their caste system; it is better thought as a race hierarchy, as the word caste is used as a politically correct replacement for what it really means, which is race. Enshrined in their society are entire ethnicities of Indians that are considered to be dirty by their very nature. Much of Mauritania would certainly be highly incompatible with Western values, considering the country still has hundreds of thousands of black slaves at the hands of Arab citizens. Despite slavery being abolished in 2007, it isn’t enforced, and the cultures of Mauritania continue to prop up this most horrendous of institutions.

This is the crux of the white elephant of multiculturalism. The sheltered liberal elites wanted incompatible foreign cultures to integrate with indigenous cultures, but it never worked or ended up like how they intended. Over 500 Islamic terrorist attacks have occured in the last 30 years resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries. A whopping 50% of all forced child marriages are between Muslims. Child rape gangs almost entirely consisting of Pakistanis drugging and raping vulnerable indigenous girls, telling them that it was OK for them to be raped because they were “white whores”. Machetes and knives are becoming a common occurrence in “multicultural” cities, with dozens of the victims and perpetrators being children themselves. We even have entire groups of people celebrating terrorist attacks and targeting Jews, as if Europe needed to revisit this issue again. It’s not even that it’s Muslims or Sub-Saharan Africans. Saudi and Emirati Muslims get along with life in the West extremely well; although they may not share all Western beliefs at home, they understand that these beliefs must be respected when they are in the West, much as Westerners will respect their beliefs when they visit Saudi Arabia. There are many cultures of people from Pakistan that have integrated and succeeded well in the United Kingdom, respecting and upholding Western values. But it is this transition that is so important; we have a culture that demands its people respect and uphold Western values, and those that wish to call the United Kingdom their home must be amongst them.

By its very nature, Western values are precisely that; values that have arisen in the “Western world”, consisting mostly of Europe and European-descendent societies. Other parts of the world are not going to share the experiences and knowledge of Europeans. There’s even some room for cultural relativism here, the concept that no culture is inherently “good” or “bad”. But they can certainly be incompatible by their very nature; someone cannot speak freely in a state that does not allow them this right, and a person that reacts to criticism with threats and violence is not going to have an easy time living in a society that has free speech.

It’s time to call out multiculturalism for what it is; an extremist ideology that has no place in the West. There is only one home of the Western values of Human Rights, Equality, Justice, Progress, Liberty; the West. These are not values wholeheartedly shared by foreign incompatible cultures and we should not put up with antithetical beliefs being imported into United Kingdom, lest we one day lose those liberties and rights that were fought so hard for in the past.