Why and what

German chancellor Angela Merkel British prime minister David Cameron and French president Nicolas Sarkozy have all declared that multiculturalism is a failure. What could his possibly mean? Let's explore.

Multiculturalism is the philosophy that every culture is morally valid and not one culture has the right to impose its values on another.

So this means if someone escapes there hell hole of a country and comes to your country to enjoy its freedoms, they shouldn't be forced to learn and accept the principles and customs on which those freedoms stand, but should instead be allowed to retain the charming native language religion and manners returned their country into a hell hole in the first place.

This system helps to avoid the cultural chauvinism implied by assimilation and instead gives you a warm sense of your own open minded tolerance right up until the moment your immigrant strap on the delightful explosives of their beloved homeland and in their quaint little way blow you to pieces.

Equal values

Broadminded ancient writers like Herodotus up to candy conquers like Alexander the great and Augusta Caesar to all embracing genius of Jesus Christ. Tolerant acceptance of different cultures has evolved into a central western value. Other cultures don't have that value of tolerance so we have to tolerate their intolerance and let them kill us.

To give an example. Say a person is a homosexual and lives in a western nation where gays are accepted and tolerated by the most straight people. Like my own country the Netherlands. If he would visit an other country, say Iran or Saudi Arabia where they hang homosexuals, then that would be right for their culture. And courtesy demands that he should participate in the local scene by being executed. Of course if he merely flies over Iran in international air space, Iranian culture wouldn't apply. Unless their culture doesn't recognize international air space. Because in that case he probably should have gone around.

Moral relativism

Multiculturalism is based on the equally sound philosophy of moral relativism which holds that nothing is absolutely right or wrong. Except that nothing is absolutely right or wrong. As Shakespeare put it: there is nothing either good or bad. Thinking makes it so.

So if one pretends to be crazy and says he’s crazy… and he gets believed, then some are crazy enough to believe the one who is crazy to be not crazy. Which is to apply that moral relativism isn't just crazy it's fake crazy. Because no one 's really crazy enough to believe it.