08-20-2013, 02:00 PM
The UK and the US are both in theory multicultural societies.... in theory.
How multi is your daily culture? You got any none cracker friends or family? How many none crackers do you see during the average day? Maybe you yourself are none cracker? What's your view of a so called multicultural society?
I've got a couple of Pakistanis and a Bangladeshi in my wider circle of friends and associates. I also know a Chinese guy I met in college and a couple of Jamaicans I met when I was training for Northumbria Police.
Where I live afro/carribean people are generally quite a rare sight, so rare that people will generally stop and look should one appear in the mall. A couple of years ago an interracial couple moved near me, I can remember seeing a black guy walking hand in hand with an obviously pregnant white woman for the first time and it really didn't bother me but nearly everyone else was staring like a guppy in a goldfish bowl.
Chinese people are rarely seen outside of their takeaways or restaurants and Arabs are still relatively few and far between. But you see them sometimes going to or coming back from friday prayers wearing their wee hats and MC hammer pants.
How multicultural is your average day?
How multi is your daily culture? You got any none cracker friends or family? How many none crackers do you see during the average day? Maybe you yourself are none cracker? What's your view of a so called multicultural society?
I've got a couple of Pakistanis and a Bangladeshi in my wider circle of friends and associates. I also know a Chinese guy I met in college and a couple of Jamaicans I met when I was training for Northumbria Police.
Where I live afro/carribean people are generally quite a rare sight, so rare that people will generally stop and look should one appear in the mall. A couple of years ago an interracial couple moved near me, I can remember seeing a black guy walking hand in hand with an obviously pregnant white woman for the first time and it really didn't bother me but nearly everyone else was staring like a guppy in a goldfish bowl.
Chinese people are rarely seen outside of their takeaways or restaurants and Arabs are still relatively few and far between. But you see them sometimes going to or coming back from friday prayers wearing their wee hats and MC hammer pants.
How multicultural is your average day?
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.