Saturday, November 25, 2006

Diversity is divisive / Spiked, 23 Nov 2006

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/2133/
Munira Mirza
" A new manifesto looks set to kickstart a debate about how multiculturalism fosters tribalism and political victimhood. The manifesto of the New Generation Network (NGN), published this week, has thrown out an impressive challenge to improve the national conversation about racism. Amongst other things, the manifesto calls for a proper debate about multiculturalism, an end to ‘communal politics’, and it criticises self-appointed ethnic ‘community leaders’ for hijacking certain issues (read the manifesto in full here). Perhaps inevitably, much of the debate it has provoked so far is focused on the comments about self-appointed leaders. However, these issues can only be fully understood in the context of official anti-racism measures that have been built up over the past two decades."