State multiculturalism has failed, says David Cameron
The prime minister will criticise “state multiculturalism” in his first speech on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism since being elected.
Addressing a security conference in Germany, David Cameron will argue the UK needs a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to extremism.
Different cultures are encouraged to live apart, and objectionable views met with “passive tolerance”, he will say.
via bbc.co.uk
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Pundits have been reacting to a speech by David Cameron in which the prime minister argued multiculturalism had “failed”. But what do commentators actually mean by the term?
It is one of the most emotive and sensitive subjects in British politics.
But at times it seems there are as many definitions of multiculturalism as there are columnists, experts and intellectuals prepared to weigh into the debate.
The subject has become the focus of renewed scrutiny in the wake of a speech by prime minister David Cameron, in which he told a security conference in Germany that the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent extremism.
In his speech, which has provoked a political storm, Mr Cameron defines “the doctrine of state multiculturalism” as a strategy which has “encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and apart from the mainstream”.
This characterisation is not new. In 2004 Trevor Phillips, chairman of the the Commission for Racial Equality – now the Equality and Human Rights Commission – told the Times that multiculturalism was out of date because it “suggests separateness” and should be replaced with policies which promote integration and “assert a core of Britishness”.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12381027)