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> The word "multiculturalism" is often said with positive affect but the culture they're talking about is clothes, food, holidays etc.
> shallow culture
> But if you talk about ideas toward democracy, gender equality, war, medical experiments ... people HATE variety of culture.

This is a little bit out of date already - it's a professor saying it - but it's still a valid point, all the people who "want multiculturalism" don't actually want it...
The problem as defined is that culture is drifting off a cliff - evidenced by the falling birth rate, but also many other things. There's one big mono-culture and it's failing.

> One idea would be to break global communication
> Just have each county have their own religion and so on, and they can trade but they cannot talk with the rest of the world
> That would be a plausible route, but nobody likes this.

@cjd
Multiculturalism is the opposite of what it purports to be. Throwing many cultures into the same place is like throwing all the crayons of a box into a melting pot. What you get is an ugly gray. Cultures develop within homogeneous populations over a long time. Culture advances civilization which then promotes population growth.

The declining birth rate in multicultural experiments is a feature rather than a bug. Multiculturalism increases the distance between potential mates, resulting in fewer matches and couplings. I impress this on non-Americans who have come here to help them realize that their children will have difficulty continuing their family.

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