also, we don't really have "multiculturalism" - we have "dual monoculturalism" - the different cultures live different lives and live apart in different communities. they segregate themselves voluntarily because multiculturalism as a project/intention doesn't exist without forcing people to assimilate amongst each other, and that never happens (and shouldn't). different peoples live apart. that's just kind of how things end up happening. it's not a prescription. it's a description. what I'd like is a system where different cultural individuals genuinely lived amongst each other in the same community, but people who immigrate here don't want to do that - the first thing they end up doing is booking it to the slum where their families are and that just ends up snowballing and then that slum becomes a "*culture* slum" e.g. the muslim slums, or the chinese slums, etc. multiculturalism doesn't end up happening. nobody really wants multiculturalism. and cultural minorities sure as hell don't want it. they only want the benefits of it (e.g. the recognitions by the state) but not the detriments (e.g. having to mingle with the natives).
and the government officials that push or this failure see their effort as noble - well it's not - they don't have to live in these slums. they don't feel the negative effects of it. they get seen by their useful-idiot supporters as "the enlightened" ones. well they're not. to be a politician is to be a master manipulator. to be a politician is to maximise your clientèle. it isn't to leave a lasting legacy. look at tony blair, for example. all he wanted to do was cash in. he had a tiny time horizon. and now he's hated. the legacy left by multiculturalism won't be a good one. the historians aren't going to understand it as something liberal. they'll see it as the politician parties trying to appear liberal to the dumb while making society illiberal by importing individuals that hold illiberal views. just look at cologne. our politicians now are seeming to get the hint that this has all been a total failure. but you can't reverse "multiculturalism". once you've started, you can't stop. once you've sewn the ethic that to oppose different cultural customs that oppose liberal values is "racism", then that's it. nobody wants to be seen as racist, even if they know its not racism. the invisible/cultural disciplinary power that this has given the regressive/illiberal order is immense.