Carl Schmitt wrote and posted the following comment (full text here) on 22 March 2009, at 9:10pm on the Comment is Free blog at The Guradian online.
"Only a complete sap believes in diversity."
This was my reply:
Where did I mention anything about belief in diversity? Anyway, in my days, and it may have changed now of course, but recognising diversity didn't mean surrendering to a skewed vision of the world and in place in the world, I wasn't around for the multi-cultural thing, we didn't get it here, and I don't think we will.
When I am travelling around I like to try and get the benefit of some of the better aspects of diversity, whether that is in China, Turkey or the USA, or wherever it is.
When I do go back to Wales I invariably take advantage of being in Wales, so it's seafood (cockles and shrimps), lamb, leeks, lava bread, sausages and the rest of it for me ... a decent welsh pub to have a drink and a chat with the locals and old mates I might bump into .. then again, if I want to eat Chinese I will go to Birmingham or Beijing, if I want a decent British curry I will go out with a few mates on a visit to London, after a drop of decent British ale that is.
When I am at home in Spain I blend in almost seamlessly. I'm not here to set up a Welsh colony in Al Andalus, and if this ever turned into one, I'd move. I'm an ethnic minority of one, who blends in with the people around me. Just as I like it. If I want to live like in Wales I'll go back and live in Wales. Simple!
I think there are problems with society and culture precisely because the lack of a formal secular system of governance, the idea that the indigenous cultures are subordinate to any other culture is of course sheer madness, you only have to look at Wales to see how much damage the imposition of a foreign culture has done over the centuries, and no, I don't mean the Romans either.
Multi-culturalism is based on a load of auld fibs. Respect is what is needed.
Print | posted on Sunday, March 22, 2009 11:08 PM