An extract from another excellent piece by Kenan Malik entitled "Mistaken Identity"
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/1809/mistaken-identity
"...Clearly no human can live outside of culture. But then no human does.
"To say that no human can live outside of culture, however, is not to say that they have to live inside a particular one. To view humans as culture-bearing is to view them as social beings, and hence as transformative beings. It suggests that humans have the capacity for change, for progress and for the creation of universal moral and political forms through reason and dialogue."
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Generally speaking in my opinion it is right to be against multiculturalism
and right to be against fundamentalist nationalism too.
This argument against multiculturalism is clearly related to some of the many arguments against nationalism.
"Nationalism requires too much belief in what simply is not so."
Eric Hobsbawm.
https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/1809/mistaken-identity
"...Clearly no human can live outside of culture. But then no human does.
"To say that no human can live outside of culture, however, is not to say that they have to live inside a particular one. To view humans as culture-bearing is to view them as social beings, and hence as transformative beings. It suggests that humans have the capacity for change, for progress and for the creation of universal moral and political forms through reason and dialogue."
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Generally speaking in my opinion it is right to be against multiculturalism
and right to be against fundamentalist nationalism too.
This argument against multiculturalism is clearly related to some of the many arguments against nationalism.
"Nationalism requires too much belief in what simply is not so."
Eric Hobsbawm.