Multiculturism

[sssaau4]

What is it?

Say I come here and i am asian.

I can speak my language at home to my family, I can cook the food i like at home (or anywhere) I can do my rituals to my gods, no one will care.

So what is that multiculturalism all about?

it seems like empth words to me.

i don't understand.

i come from a different culture, english is my 2nd language.

i cook my countries food at home and hubby puts up with it or i cook him something else if it's too much of an aquired taste.

i speak english (foreign) to other people in the shops because no-one would understand a word if i spoke in my native tongue.

so what exactly is multiculturalism?

is it some ideal where i could talk in my native tongue here and expevt other people to understand me?

is it the freedom to cook my "foreign" meals as i please?

can someone please enlighten me what it actually means?

[cherry*135]

People from many different countries (cultures, ethnicities) living in one single country. All being treated equally?

Why would you want to talk to a person in your language unless that person speaks it also?

Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, French.. we have a lot of different cuisines here ( in restaraunt/take away choices). 

[sssaau4]

being treated equally and also behave equally?

[cherry*135]

As far as breaking the law, yes.

[cherry*135]

Add Mexican, Italian, Greek, Indian.. to different cuisines.

We have most of those mentioned in my small town.

[joz*garage]

People from many different countries (cultures, ethnicities) living in one single country

i believe not quite

before the europeans arrived on the american continent there were indigenous peoples spread throughout in isolation with there own culture, language and traditions etc

it's the mingling that makes it multicultural

(my neighbour's a pom)

[sssaau4]

I went into  a shop and md I couldn't read read any of the labels on the packets because it was all labelled in Arabic. No labelling in English. None.

They had re-packed spices into bags so there were no brand names.

Is that MULTI-cultural? No it's not. That is not the spirit of multiculturalism.

The spirit of multiculturalism would be if they labelled their stuff in English as well so I can join in with their culture.

They exclude me is that multiculturalism?

I

[ufo_investigations]

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@sssaau4 wrote:

I went into  a shop and md I couldn't read read any of the labels on the packets because it was all labelled in Arabic. No labelling in English. None.

They had re-packed spices into bags so there were no brand names.

Is that MULTI-cultural? No it's not. That is not the spirit of multiculturalism.

The spirit of multiculturalism would be if they labelled their stuff in English as well so I can join in with their culture.

They exclude me is that multiculturalism?

I

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If it's in Arabic they are most likely muslim and the koran does say than non-muslims are infidels so there's your answer.

[cherry*135]

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@joz*garage wrote:

People from many different countries (cultures, ethnicities) living in one single country

i believe not quite

before the europeans arrived on the american continent there were indigenous peoples spread throughout in isolation with there own culture, language and traditions etc

it's the mingling that makes it multicultural

(my neighbour's a pom)

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it's the mingling that makes it multicultural

mingling of different cultures ( people from different countries) - in Australia - few examples -  Macedonian, Italian, Greek, Indian,Vietnamese, Chinese..

[j*oono]

That's where the multi part comes in sssssssausages.  This is where you need to learn what the labels mean. Then you will be doing your part too.

We don't label our products in Arabic or Chinese or German.

[sssaau4]

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

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@sssaau4 wrote:

I went into  a shop and md I couldn't read read any of the labels on the packets because it was all labelled in Arabic. No labelling in English. None.

They had re-packed spices into bags so there were no brand names.

Is that MULTI-cultural? No it's not. That is not the spirit of multiculturalism.

The spirit of multiculturalism would be if they labelled their stuff in English as well so I can join in with their culture.

They exclude me is that multiculturalism?

I

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If it's in Arabic they are most likely muslim and the koran does say than non-muslims are infidels so there's your answer.

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yes it was in arabic.

i went there because they had made an advert in  one of the local TV channels so i thought i go there and check it out. i LOVE to try out new interesting foreign food  but when we got there it was rather disappointing. we felt unwelcome and i wondered why they would bother paying for that advert on a local tv channel if they didn't really want "foreigners" (=non arabic people) to buy stuff?

i just bought ras el hanout from the internet but i would have bought it from said shop if i had been able to read their labels....

i am somewhat addicted to trying out new interesting recipes from other countries but it's not nice when you try and go to a foreign shop and they can't be bothered to put an english label on. they have to deal with the tax office so there must be SOMEONE who speaks English and COULD label things in English as well but it seemed to me that we were just not welcome there.