Temat: Cultural tolerance
I have learned so much about other cultures by being exposed to them via friends, co-workers etc etc. I think, that being able
to first hand experience ie. dinner with an Indian family or
Asian etc etc... being able to be a part of their conversations
at a table in a "safe" environment, where everyone is relaxed and > ready to really speak their minds on all kinds of issues. You can not learn things like that from a book or a class room. Only better way is to live in their country.
But aren't the people with whom you dine and mix the immigrants that, for whatever reason, have integrated? Isn't this how you know them, and why things are nice and relaxed between you?
My impression is that there were/are certain classes of immigrant that already have established many of the cultural similarities of the host nation (for example higher education), and these get passed on to their children as they are able to support them properly.
Other immigrants probably had/have little schooling, and though they may have been grateful for the opportunity in the host country, they can't support their kids in their education, and probably haven't had well-paid jobs to have comfortable retirements either. The result is an unemployable and resentful second generation and poverty.
Though there is now this question of sharia, I think that this is just symptom of all the antagonism comes from the fact that certain groups never advance in society, and can't because they aren't equipped to. If I was in this situation I'd look angrily at the apparent unfairness of the "other half's" very conspicuous consumption.
I have drifted away from the nice idea of togetherness by the sharing cultural stories and smoking the pipe of peace together, etc. But I think that it all boils down to inequalities in formal education (reading, writing, maths, science, etc.) and resultant inequalities of income.
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