Post Presentation

I felt really good about how our presentation Does Multiculturalism Cause More Harm Than Good? went. I took a real interest in all the discussions we had when researching and putting our presentation together. I must say as well that through all of our work i have definitley been persuaded toward a more optimistic view on the subject. I have never been against multiculturalism but i was pessimistic as to whether it would ever really work without conflict.

What i found very interesting was our discussions on subjects like the MOBO awards. I was more of the view that an award ceremony like the MOBO's was divisive and not really suitable in a society striving for cohesive multiculturalism. But I was definitley won round by Pauls argument that its not really our place to judge that such events (created when minorities didn't have a mainstream voice) should be abolished now that what they represent has moved into the mainstream and has become part of popular culture. I do still think that it can be seen as divisive, but it is not our place to say such events need to be shut down.

As Paul said on The Progression of Society and Multiculturalism, multiculturalism is a young idea and we are not in a position yet to condemn it. I think that because of society today, progress and technological advancements amongst other things mean we can get things done much quicker, for example travelling is so much easier now and we can cross land so much faster. This has led i think to a feeling that everything should happen almost instantaneously, this is then carried into ideoligies like multiculturalism. Meena mentioned that they are already thinking of changing the term multiculturalism possibly to cosmopolitanism. We are in too much of a hurry to demonise things without giving them chance to grow. I am very optimistic about multiculturalism, we maybe creating our own traditions right now and they need time to be cemented before we really can see multiculturalism as a whole culture on its own.