Has Multi-Culturalism Had Its Day?
A leading British critic finds Canada’s approach outdated April 2008
Writing in the latest issue of London-based Prospect (the magazine I edit), a leading German Social Democrat, Ernst Hillebrand, has this to say about multiculturalism in Europe: “The left’s answer to a significant rise in European immigration in recent decades—the concept of ‘multiculturalism’—has failed dramatically. It has led to fragmented societies and ghettos of marginalised minorities in which the mutual frustrations of both indigenous populations and immigrants have…