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Genteel xenophobia is as bad as any other kind
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1148847,00.html

Some liberals have given up on the idea of a multi-ethnic Britain

Trevor Phillips
Monday February 16, 2004
The Guardian

Nice people do racism too. Liberal commitment to a multi-ethnic
Britain is wilting. Some very nice folk have apparently decided that
the nation's real problem is too many immigrants of too many kinds.
Faced with a daily onslaught against migrants it may be understandable
to give in to populist bigotry; but it is not forgivable.

xenophobia OR ethnic OR xenophobes OR xenophobe
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Trevor Phillips
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Close the door before it's too late
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1151091,00.html

Defensive anti-racists can't be allowed to stifle the debate on the
dangers of mass migration

David Goodhart
Thursday February 19, 2004
The Guardian

Is it possible to be a progressive and yet have reservations about
mass immigration? For labour market reasons, the left in America, and
most African-Americans, have long been opposed to mass immigration,
while the free-market right is now enthusiastically in favour.

Discomfort of strangers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1154650,00.html

David Goodhart's essay challenging liberals to rethink their attitudes
to diversity and the welfare state has provoked a bitter debate among
progressive thinkers. Here, for the first time in a national
newspaper, we publish it in full. Join the debate by emailing
unlimited@guardianunlimited.co.uk

Read the second part of David Goodhart's essay here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1154693,00.html

Tuesday February 24, 2004
The Guardian

Britain in the 50s was a country stratified by class and region. But
in most of its cities, suburbs, towns and villages there was a good
chance of predicting the attitudes, even the behaviour, of the people
living in your immediate neighbourhood.

In many parts of Britain today that is no longer true. The country has
long since ceased to be Orwell's "family" (albeit with the wrong
members in charge).

David Goodhart
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To insist on cultural integration is the exact opposite of racism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1156377,00.html

Peter Hitchens
Thursday February 26, 2004
The Guardian

So there is such a thing as British society after all, and it is worth
preserving. Great thanks are due to David Goodhart, perhaps more
thanks than he wants, for grasping that a country cannot long retain
consent, freedom and order unless it defends and respects its own
culture.

Racism is our socialism of fools
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1156382,00.html

Jeremy Seabrook
Thursday February 26, 2004
The Guardian

It is characteristic that the left (or progressives, as they now like
to be known) should have awakened so late from their ideological
sleep. They have only just noticed the dissolution of community, about
40 years after the reason for existence of places such as Burnley,
Smethwick or Bradford had vanished. These towns, called into being by
what they made in a national division of labour, lost their function
with the dispersal of the sites of industrialism across the globe.

'Find cohesion in human rights'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1156374,00.html

Sarah Spencer
Thursday February 26, 2004
The Guardian

Britain faces a challenge in developing a strong sense of common
citizenship, and migration is one dimension of that. It is easy to
overstate past uniformity, to suggest that social divisions were weak
enough to leave intact common values and a sense of mutuality only now
threatened by ethnic diversity. But did the Liverpool docker and home
counties lawyer of the class-ridden 1950s really share more life
experiences than an Indian and Scottish surgeon working in a
Birmingham hospital today?

Time to get to grips with Britishness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1156385,00.html

John Denham
Thursday February 26, 2004
The Guardian

Diversity is a challenge to social solidarity, but there is nothing
inevitable or mechanical that links the scale of diversity with the
weakness of solidarity. We need to recognise that there are two rather
different problems, and we have ways of tackling both. Most of the
time, it's strangeness, the fear of the other, the unknown, that is
the problem, not diversity itself. David Goodhart mentions changing
attitudes towards homosexuality just briefly, but the change is
significant. Though the process is not complete, gays and lesbians
have moved from the excluded, feared and despised to a broad social
acceptance over a generation. The diversity has not changed, indeed,
it has become more obvious and explicit. It is the fear that has
diminished.

'We seem to have forgotten history'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1156379,00.html

Saskia Sassen
Thursday February 26, 2004
The Guardian

What happens when we look at the history of immigration for clues
about what is a constraint and what is a possibility? Historical
demography shows us that all European societies have incorporated
foreign immigrant groups and that it has often taken no more than a
few generations to turn them into a community that can experience
solidarity.

'We depend on these workers'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1156381,00.html

Hsiao-Hung Pai
Thursday February 26, 2004
The Guardian

Have you ever had a conversation with a Nigerian NHS worker, an Asian
transport worker, a Bolivian cleaner? Have you ever looked at the face
of a "foreigner" while he pours your wine? From the welfare state to
your favourite restaurant, you depend on migrant workers. Unskilled
migrant workers are among the highest educated manual workforce in
Britain, and your wonderful country is not only unwilling to recognise
their contribution but also wants to avoid any social responsibility
while using their cheap labour.

'Migrants must buy into basics'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1156380,00.html

Amitai Etzioni
Thursday February 26, 2004
The Guardian

I profoundly agree with David Goodhart's analysis of the issue and its
importance. The focus is indeed on the tension between old solidarity
and new diversity.

The multicultural approach - which prefers to abolish national
identities and replace them with a rainbow of tribes - is blind to the
lessons of multiethnic states (from Bosnia to Nigeria), in which
solidarity is too weak to sustain even a civil society. On the other
hand, the assimilation approach, which expects all immigrants to be
like the native citizens, is unnecessarily homogenising .

i love this guy! i agree with much of what he's said. (if a dem wins
the election, they really should seek his advice before renegotiating
iraq.) sarah spencer comes next, and though i have issues with her
rationales, her sentiments are in the right direction. the rest of
the other commentaries is interesting but misguided.

it's funny. i suspected that by debating the common values (eg.
fairness and honesty) required of democracy and economic prosperity in
iraq, it would eventually boomerang back and sharpen the debate about
social fragmentation back home, with the added benefit of being able
to wield this multi-edged sword against the bush admin's dishonest
drumbeat for war. instead, leave it to the brits to pick up on it
while the american media obsesses over janet's boob, gay marriage, or
this hyper-fixation on anti-semitism. (btw, what about the
pro-semitism of neocons like perle, wolfowitz, feith, and that whole
project for a new american century, huh? perhaps this is another
reason why there's little debate about nation-building the middle
east, a debate that might greatly REDUCE anti-semitism over the long
term, because they are too busy bitching about nickel and dime
anti-semitic movies in the short-term?) i was hoping that by thinking
about iraq's democratic struggles, america might think about what's
wrong with her own democracy.

'Migrants must buy into basics'

Amitai Etzioni
Thursday February 26, 2004
The Guardian

I profoundly agree with David Goodhart's analysis of the issue and its
importance. The focus is indeed on the tension between old solidarity
and new diversity.
The multicultural approach - which prefers to abolish national
identities and replace them with a rainbow of tribes - is blind to the
lessons of multiethnic states (from Bosnia to Nigeria), in which
solidarity is too weak to sustain even a civil society. On the other
hand, the assimilation approach, which expects all immigrants to be
like the native citizens, is unnecessarily homogenising .

Hence I favour a third approach, formulated by a group of European
intellectuals (which I chaired). We called it Diversity within Unity.
Here, there are some basics which are sacrosanct, but other cultural
and social differences should be welcomed.

To the European majorities, we say: "We feel your pain." If several
families from ___ (fill in the blank) moved in next to our apartments,
they would give us pause, too. Many immigrants treat women and
children, the law, and much else in ways we find troubling. Their
conduct is not just different; it is wrong.

Immigrants who wish to become members of our communities must accept
certain basics: respect for human rights, democratic government, the
law, as well as a command of the language(s). But if immigrants buy
into the basics, there is no reason to protest if they eat and dance
differently, or pray to different gods.

At the same time, we reject the multicultural notion that we should
abolish societal identities to accommodate the sensibilities of the
newcomers. No society can flourish unless it has some shared values;
nor is there any reason to hold that the human rights which we insist
must be respected by people all over the world could be ignored in our
inner cities, or that the democratic way of life could be treated as
one option among many. Aside from being normatively unacceptable, such
concepts further inflame the majority's fears that immigrants will
destroy all that they hold dear.