Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.
India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.
I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.
I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.
Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.
