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Originally posted by Taualumna
Sometimes, multiculturalism can go too far, and can be very difficult on the first generation. Care to comment on the Sikh kid from BC who cut off his hair and gave himself wounds and then said that he was a victim of a hate crime?
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See but that's not really a product of multiculturalism... that's a problem with the family - kid wanted to cut his hair and hang with a different crowd... so he made up a story to cover up the fact he got his hair cut. To me that is a problem within a cultural group itself - something that all cultural groups face regardless of whether they are multi or monocultural.
Ideally multiculturalism means that one can celebrate their own culture, or be free to experience or celebrate the cultures of others... it's fluid and changing, just as the cultural make-up and cultures themselves are fluid and changing. Multiculturalism does not mean conforming to some monolithic cultural ideal, nor does it mean that each culture within society is in competition with one another.
Which gets me back to the point that the incident wasn't a product of multiculturalism, because technically in a "ideal" multicultural society the kid would have been free not to follow a strict definition of his "native" culture.
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