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<p> Kenan Malik distinguishes between the positive lived experience of a multicultural society, and multicultural state policies which foster division </p>

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<p>‘Has multiculturalism been good or bad for Britain?’ It’s a question to which the answers have become increasingly polarised in recent years. For some, multiculturalism expresses the essence of a modern, liberal society. For others, it has helped create an anxious, fragmented nation.</p>
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Multicultural policies have come to be seen as a means of empowering minority communities and giving them a voice. In reality such policies have empowered not individuals but ‘community leaders’ who owe their position and influence largely to their relationship with the state. </div>
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Kenan Malik </div>
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<p><a href="http://libcom.org/library/multiculturalism-undermines-diversity-kenan-malik" target="_blank">read more</a></p>