Talk:Multiculturalism

misplaced paragraph in United Kingdom section

The second paragraph in the United Kingdom section (which is nonetheless fairly well written and contains useful information) is out of place and likely should be merged with the general information on Europe and/or a new section: "In the Western English-speaking countries..."DRead (talk) 09:53, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Y Done -- Q Chris (talk) 09:55, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Quebec City immigrants

Why is a picture of people immigrating to a Canadian city listed under Australia? Quebec City is currently a Canadian city and it also a Canadian city at the time of the picture.(confederation in Canada was in 1867 picture is circa 1911) either the caption is wrong or the image needs to be moved. Tydoni (talk) 01:34, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

It wasn't placed under Australia. It was in fact placed in the Canada section, but the other photos were so big it was pushed down the page. I'll see if I can re-arrange those better, but I don't have much experience working with images in Wikipedia. Aristophanes68 (talk) 04:52, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

I re-aligned the pics to make them fit better with the sections they most closely relate to. But I think we have too many pics in this section and we need either to remove some all together or to move some of them to other parts of the article. Thoughts? Aristophanes68 (talk) 05:17, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

I was bold take a look...Moxy (talk) 05:35, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Multiculture

Multicultures isn`t a subject of the EUropean UNion ? I have trouble giving a straight refference but EP says subtitle of the movies is a multiculture friendly aspect.188.25.107.166 (talk) 06:32, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

4.7 Continental Europe : Ok this is very interesting to read;Do the people that wrote the following know any European history/geography or did they just make stuff up????

"Historically, Europe has always been polycultural—a mixture of Latin, Slavic, Germanic, Uralic and Celtic cultures influenced by the importation of Hebraic, Hellenic and Muslim belief systems; although the continent was supposedly unified by the super-position of Roman Catholic Christianity, it is accepted that geographic and cultural differences continued from antiquity into the modern age."
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Last time I checked my country Hellas (that's Greece...) was in Europe;also if I recall correctly Europe was a princess(of perhaps Phoenician origin) in Greek mythology;I think that it was us that more or less named the continent;you know at about the time we were the so called cradle of western-european civilisation....Need I continue???
So "the importation of Hellenic belief systems" and the lack of mentioning Hellenic (among other groups like Illyrians) culture in the mix is ,to say the least, funny/interesting.
Also for the millionth time -people it's getting really tiresome!!!!- people writing about Christianity SHOULD FIRST READ-STUDY CHRISTIAN HISTORY!!!!!!!!
A hint:It didn't start with Luther and before him it wasn't only the Catholics that were around...
To spell it out once more for many of you out there,the Roman Catholic Christianity was only dominant in Western Europe.Eastern Europe was-is predominantly Orthodox.This schism came to official existence only after 1054.And it is-was not the only one;there was-is a plethora of other ancient Christian denominations or sects or branches or whatever(some have survived to this day,some haven't) around...
Thanatos|talk 02:40, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Nobody has commented,replied or changed anything.So I went ahead with the edit:
/* Continental Europe */ added "Hellenic","Illyrian","Thracian" and "and other" to the culture mixture.Also deleted "Hellenic" from imported belief systems and replaced it with "Christian";also added "and other" to the latter.
The passage now reads:
"Historically, Europe has always been polycultural—a mixture of Latin, Slavic, Germanic, Uralic, Celtic, Hellenic, Illyrian, Thracian and other cultures influenced by the importation of Hebraic, Christian, Muslim and other belief systems; although the continent was supposedly unified by the super-position of Imperial Roman Christianity, it is accepted that geographic and cultural differences continued from antiquity into the modern age."
Didn't mention in the edit summary the change to Imperial Roman Christianity (from Catholic) cause there was no more space left(the system wouldn't accept more characters-word).
Thanatos|talk 23:12, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

contradictory?

According to the article, multiculturalism "...encourages [immigrant] communities to participate fully in society by enhancing their level of economic, social, and cultural integration into the host culture(s)." That sounds like assimilation to me, not multiculturalism! 76.64.133.131 (talk) 00:19, 6 December 2011 (UTC)