Pants-of-dog wrote:You are contradicting yourself here.
First you blame multiculturalism for the fall of Rome (despite the fact that Rome had no multiculturalism policies) and then you blamed Christianity.
Hmm, it sees you have forgotten your high school history. At the onset the Romans were anti-Christian. Then Constantine converted to Christianity and within a century or so Christianity replaced Roman Paganism. The Romans also gave citizenship to the German barbarians whom at the end supported their tribes rather the empire. And the Empire fell and was replaced the Catholic Church. I suggest you brush up on your history.
I am going to assume you have no evidence, and you are simply parroting things you read about multiculturalism from conservative blogs.
I am now dismissing your claims about multiculturalism.
This is not exactly news: Many blacks and native Americans have failed to integrate into American culture because they favor multiculturalism. OTOH, Hispanics and Asians assimilate much better. I could give you articles but you will not read them.
Salt and pepper.
A field of different weeds.
Racial diversity in a prison chain gang.
Racial diversity in Cuba.
Ha, ha, you are trolling!
Actually, I hope you are trolling. If you are serious we have a problem.
I am pointing out how race and classism are intertwined in Latino cultures, which is perfectly valid.
I agree! All cultures have classism and racism.
Dying from smallpox is natural. Will people always die from smallpox? If not, then it is incorrect to assume that things will last forever because they are natural.
Sure, we could evolve and things may change. But, evolution does not happen overnight. I could find 100,000 golfers and they could practice golf 24/7 for a lifetime and none of them would be as good as Tiger Woods was in his heyday. The hierarchy is a bitch!
Please quote the text that supports your claim.
I knew you would not read it.
I needed to talk to real Cubans and to find out what they thought about race and racism in their society. Soon enough, I was chatting away with our drivers, two men who were part of our film crew named Rafael and Yoxander. They were proud to be Cuban and happy to discuss race with me. I started by asking Rafael, who has a complexion like coffee, what color he is.
“I am mixed race,” he replied. “I’m simply Cuban. It is a mixture of all the races.”
I asked the two men to tell me about the people around us on the streets. They are Cuban, yes, but what else are they? I soon learned there are still categories of blackness within cubanidad.
[What is cubanidad? In the twenties, through music and culture, Cuba’s government and elite population stopped rejecting everything Afro-Cuban and favoring everything European. They began celebrating Cuba’s racially mixed, or mestizo, heritage. This cultural-identity movement was called cubanidad, a blend of white and black, to make brown.]
But I then took the opportunity to ask them why there weren’t more professors like me at the universities—and why the affluent neighborhoods didn’t have more black residents.
“I think perhaps it is because white people like to study more,” Yoxander said, surprising me with his frankness.
I asked him if he believes there is racial discrimination in Cuba.
“Not really,” he said, shaking his head, “not on a grand scale. We all grew up together—white, mestizo, black, mulatto. We were all educated to the same level.”
“Why do you think there are more baseball players, proportionately, than black lawyers or doctors?” I asked.
“There’s a tendency for black people to practice sports,” he said, patiently. He was listening to my questions, but they weren’t really engaging him. He told me he had never experienced discrimination in Cuba, and he assured me that ordinary Cubans don’t either. The revolution got rid of racism, he said.