So its 2011, the supposed “Clash of Civilisation” hasn’t happened, but it still could. Multiculturalism and Political Correctness once hailed as being the only way to deal with “people different to us” is failing. The issues created when “others” moved into an area are still there. Nothing is improving and in some places cultural tensions are increasing. There are a few reasons why multiculturalism is failing. The fear of the “Other” still exists. We say say we aren’t racist,...
Image by eliot. via Flickr As I didn’t do a Monday links last week as I was in Luxembourg, for punishment I am doing one today on the Bank Holiday here in Ireland! Kosmopolit has a post explaining EU Jargon. I have a post on that coming soon, maybe even today! Bryan has a post on Islamophobia and the far right.It was nice to read that after coming home from the intercultural training in Luxembourg. Sticking with interculturalism, there...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife On Sunday I head off to Luxembourgh to take part in the ALF Euromed Bloggers Training on Intercultural Dialogue. As part of that Programme I have to look up a bit on interculturalsim. Searching Irishblogs.ie I found a few websites dealing with the issue, but most were websites and not blogs. Only two of the blogs I found were ordinary blogs but the rest were photoblogs. Does this mean that Interculturalism isn’t an...
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