Integration and Multi-culturalism. – The Anna Raccoon Archives

by Anna Raccoon on February 6, 2011

Much ruffling of Guardianista feathers today. The Prime-Minister’s speech in Munich stating that we must all try harder to integrate and adopt ‘British values’ may be responsible for the appearance of this article in the Guardian, one of our famed ‘National’ newspapers.

Do you agree with the article?
Disagree?
Do you feel that it has helped you integrate?
Is this a fine example of adopting British values?
Or are you struck dumb?

{ 16 comments }

Foxy Brown February 7, 2011 at 18:30

The lunatics have truly taken over the asylum.

Jabba the Cat February 7, 2011 at 16:03

I saw Slavoj Žižek having an intense mental masturbation session on Al
Jazeera the other day. It was so memorable that I can’t remember any of
it…

peter February 7, 2011 at 09:42

And your problem with this article is?
The author is Slavoj Žižek is the
international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
Established by the university of London in 1823 it aims to:
* engage with
important public issues of our time through a series of open debates,
lectures, seminars and conferences
* foster and promote a climate of
interdisciplinary research and collaboration among academics and
researchers
* promote new ideas and forms of understanding in the
humanities
* provide short-term fellowships for a small number of scholars
from Britain and overseas, chosen in open competition
* invite prominent
writers, broadcasters and public figures to spend short periods at the
Institute
* engage the highly rated Birkbeck Humanities research
departments in cross-disciplinary work.
There is an English version
available. The article itself is not bad. Compare it with the response of the
US administration: Murbarak must change, no he must go, no the army must take
charge, no with must have stability and yes we want someone we can work with.
To send more illegal prisoners to be tortured?

TheNoseyMole February 7, 2011 at 01:26

Noticed on BBC World last night that following the report on the EDL march
in Luton a representative from an Islamic cultural organization was
interviewed, but no one from the EDL, or any organization’s representative
from the “other side” was asked asked for an opinion. Unbiased journalism?

fred February 6, 2011 at 21:33

Multiculturalism has only failed due to British Islamophobia. In a
tolerant, culturally pluralistic society where diversity is the norm,
Islamophobia should be treated therapeutically rather than condemned. People
who are Islamophobic should undergo systematised desensitisation by handling
muslims in a safe, controlled environment, starting with harmless, weedy
little specimens and building up to those massive great hairy buggers I’m
always finding in the bath.

Richard B February 6, 2011 at 20:43