What is multiculturalism?

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Multi-Culturalism stands for mediocrity. True, if everyone were a superhuman Multi-Culturalism would allow it but Multi-Culturalism does not allow anyone rising above the group.

Then it is somewhat ironic that multiculturalism is frequently invoked when discussing Muslims in the Western world, given the higher frequency of cousin marriages among Muslims.

^one more 15th century custom that they will hopefully overcome with enough exposure to the modern world. Multi-culturalism works both ways.

6th - 7th century, actually (or even earlier, but it was included in the Qur'an in the 7th century).

Oh, and an example: 55 percent of Pakistani Britons are estimated to marry first cousins. That's a decrease from the Pakistani average of 70 percent, of course, but a lot higher than a (sane) level 0 percent.

And since the harmful effects of inbreeding can accumulate over time...

On a more on-topic note: Cousin marriages among Muslims also directly undermines the so-called "beneficial" aspects of multiculturalism, as it (by definition) means that there is less interaction between different ethnic groups.

^Clearly not, if the rate has gone down by a third in just a few decades. A few more decades, and they might go through a renaissance and/or reformation.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure it is decreasing at all.

I found this study from 1988 which list a 55 percent cousin marriage rate, just like the more recent claims (low sample size, but satisfies the CLT).
http://jmg.bmj.com/content/25/3/186.full.pdf

The lower level of cousin marriages may thus be the cause of self-selection (the individuals from Pakistan who end up resettling in Britain), and not continuous exposure to the norms of the Western world. And some sources report an increasing rate of cousin marriages among younger Pakistanis in Britain .

This is also consistent with the data from my native country of Denmark which suggests that integration of Muslims into society does not improve in subsequent generations.

Agreed. Over the last 40 years, the Muslims (by which I mainly mean Pakistanis and Bangladeshis) seem to have become far more hostile and closed-off, not less.

Which derives directly from their religious doctrines. People who are devout Muslims are ill equipped to dwell in Western societies centered around individual rights and liberties. This things simply do not exist in the Islamic religious context.

ruveyn

That's why I see that bastard outfit, the niqab everywhere. I really cannot control my lust for everything that isn't covered head to toe in a hideous black sheet.

The more I listen to the likes of Netanyahu, the more I like him.

That couldn't be because of the massive amount of hatred spewing forward from the likes of yourself and other Daily Mail readers since 9/11?

...people with cultural differences getting along to get along. It can be achieved successfully by looking past differences and by focusing more on the common ground that all humans share. In some ways, I think there's more differences within the same ethnicity or nationality of people than there is between different ethnicities and nationalities. I mean, I can probably find more common ground with an introvert from a completely different country than I can with many extroverts here in America. I think people are more divided and differentiated within a nations borders by personality and neurology than the entire nation is with a completely different nation. Its just you have to live with these conflicting personalities, even in your own family. Even if you have more in common with some guy you're sent off to kill in a foreign land than your own father or brother, you'd never know it, because you're divided by geography and, most likely, language.

To me, religion is one of the most superficial things that we fight over. Its really not the difference of being Christian or Muslim, Jewish, Atheist or whatever that makes us bad people. If you're a sadistic person and you're presented the opportunity to be sadistic, it doesn't matter what faith claim to believe in. It comes down to how empathetic or how spiritually connected you are as a person.

Jews were pretty self-isolating in Europe before WW2, but are well-integrated and are significant social and scientific players in the US today; short of genocide, how do we reproduce that success?

Not true. Jews partook of the Enlightenment from the time of Napoleon. In Germany there were assimilated Jews and that is where the Reform movement got its start in the late 19 th century.

Many assimilated Jews or people whose parents and grandparents converted to Christianity got an unpleasant surprise when Hitler and his buddies defined being Jewish in racial terms, rather than terms of belief for philosophy. In any case Jews came out of there shell in Germany in the 19 th century. It was in eastern Europe where communities of Orthodox Jews lived in the Stedtles. They were slaughtered by the Nazis.

ruveyn

That's just a bunch of rubbish. Multiculturalism has to do with simply being civil with people of cultural, ethnic, and racial differences and not prejudging or disparaging individuals based on what broad social groups they were born into.

"Superhumans" are kings, emperors, pharaohs, and slave masters. For thousands of years, the vast majority of humanity lived an existence of misery under the rule of the few who were elevated to a super human status. I say good riddance if this is what multi-culturalism does. If masters can no longer use jingoism and bigotry to control their serfs, that's perfectly fine by me.

BTW, America, a multi-cultural society, has produced some of the greatest innovations in culture and technology through its mixed population. If we have to bring the superhuman to its knees to let true human potential flourish, I say great.

Its already happening. I was just talking to a friend who visited Turkey. She said the older people there are very strict adherents to Islam, but the younger people, by in large, are very open to other world views and perspectives. We can all judge the Islamic world based on the isolated instances over-reported on the News, but the media ultimately gives a limited and sensationalized view of reality in general.