Just a few days ago a Norwegian Anders Breivik went on a killing spree murdering about 90 people in a calculated protest that looks more like a Warholian search for 15 minutes of fame then that it actually was based on any sound idea.
Breivik's protest against multiculturalism, or like the protests of the weird politician Geert Wilders in my own country against Islamification echo 19th century thinking that brought forth two world wars, Nanjing's massacre, Hitler's conentration campls, Hutus and Tutsi's killing each other massively, Stalinism as an excess of Marxism, Fascism, Capitalism, Nationalism and Racism as scientific standards that are still largely being followed by the world at large. Many of the current wars and uprisings are directly fed by this 19th century standard that had to justify recent history.
If it wasn’t for the multicultural migration waves (caused by the 19th century thinking and disruptive action) our entertainment industry would still be in its infancy, and not even jazz would have become popular. Our literature and art would still try to be a predecessor of photography and our news would still read on the level of neighborhood shopping.
Is multiculturalism bad? It builds and breaks fortunes, that is for sure. So does anything else. It also imprisons our minds and hearts if we fear it, but it liberates when we respect it as a historical fact. African tribes had to accept it when white men took them to the America’s as a form of robotic workforce, they also had to accept our western notions of culture and nation when we draw their boundaries. And after all, how many fashion things people wear are the result of multiculturalism? The cravat was originally a style of accessorizing at a small part of central Europe to start with and now it is a standard global must have for whole classes of hive people ( a social class of hyper militarized capitalism: office workers).
Cultural change and drift are part of any form of renewal for a society and to escape its burdens build in the past. And believe me: we humans have quite some burdens. We are burden beavers, building dams of problems in the natural flow of history. We are not time travelers, we too often are stuck in time, trying to re-live the past.
The difference with the past, and why multiculturalism is liberating, is that in the past culture was something regionally determined. Believing that it is still so is an inherently uninformed, backwards 19th century way of thinking. and we establised above that that time is highly dangerous to uncritically adhere to.

Culture was never regional. Culture is an agreement between individuals about the nature of reality and what we should do and think to reinforce that way of thinking. Look at the current Greek Tragedy of lack of tax payers in the upper and upper middle classes. If the EU would have been a democracy and one country by now as it should have been, the problem would not have occurred. But people try to hold on to nationalist 19th century identities and thus the right to have harmful laws and regulation because of tradition and other forms of corruption.

Culture is not a regional seclusion. Now it is something we can access and personalize anywhere on the planet. Saddhu’s in Beijing, Daoist masters in Amsterdam, a black president of the USA. Culture and cultural style is a matter of accessorizing our identity, like skinheads and white rasta’s do. Like me wearing a Wudang Daoist suit and you wearing a leopardskin printed tanga. I bet you are not a Massai Chieftain! See what happened with China and Japan because they absorbed western culture of industry and science? See what happens to all these countries that repeat the 19th century? They create only argument, bloodshed and suffering. It is high time we create some optimism about our future and finally start living in the 21th century and build on current realities, use our current potential to increase global wellbeing, reduce hunger and poverty. And because governments will follow the people no matter where they are it is up to us, Netizens to organize ourselves and shape up the world with viable initiatives that gradually alter the political anti historic climate currently causing killing sprees and an abundance of manifesto’s. Welcome to Daoland, where all we do has to finance a better future for everyone. You are responsible to what happens to your world! Make it a healthy happy place where people work together and each can be and look whatever they feel like.