Two cultures can exists side-by-side but two cultures cannot exist in the same place at the same time. If we say that the we must tolerate other cultures, the most intolerant thing to say is that a distinct culture doesn’t have a right to exist and should be supplanted.
If the enchanting old Dutch culture would become supplanted by a different or a myriad of cultures, is it really Dutch anymore? Can we really say we love the splendid variety of cultures if we demand they all be integrated into one another?
And here we come face to face with the essential negating contradiction within multiculturalism itself: if no culture is better than another then why is multiculturalism better than allowing individual cultures to cultivate themselves? If multiculturalists truly loved culture, they would just let it be.
In a “multicultural” society, it is impossible not to have “cultural appropriation”, as the more differing peoples rub up against one another, the more they will absorb and give. Can’t have one without the other.
To each his own.
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