He doesn't 'get' the references to bandanas.

Do you feel silly now?

Actually it is a reaction to shouting "racist". It is the backlash. So is Donald Trump, UKIP, Le Pen et al.
It is what happens when politics swing in a irrational and extreme direction. You have to have a counter.
People are also beginning to realise the cynical, deliberate side to all this so called political correctness.

Nothing to be ashamed about, the bandana issue is complex.

Nothing to be ashamed about, the bandana issue is complex.

I think its a bit more complex, as the definition of the 'success of multiculturalism' as a concept is defined by different groups according to their 'agenda'. For me, I'd say the UK is fairly multicultural in that it consists of all manner of different cultures, that for the most part get along, function within society and without conflict.

The problem of the most 'militant' multiculturalist movments is that they seem to expect instant change, rather than graduated change and integration, and in pursuing this approach, create greater dissonance by embracing an ideology, over pragmatism - usually by dismissing critical analysis of cultural conflicts rather than focusing on resolution of the conflicts.

People who think multiculturalism as a perfect functioning merge are misguided - Cultures by the definition exist in conflict with other cultural views and perceptions. And in targeting specific ideals alienate other cultural groups.

A good example of this can be seen in how 'indiscriminately dismissing any criticism of Islam as Islamaphobia, those with reasonable criticisms that need to be addressed in social discourse are by default allied to those which are the product of those that are unfounded, or more cynically the produce of prejudice - and its these kinds of groups like EDL, British first that benefit, because the exclusion of the reasonable disenters and critics by default allies them to less reasonable arguments.

Which ironically, is exactly what political correctness as a means of social engineering was devised to prevent.

All very reasonable.

The "success" of multicultural should be measured in my view by how it effects the majority. What we see is the pressure toward a multicultural society working against the majority and against opinion.
It is true that a significant number of immigrants fit comfortably into our society but they are not the issue. It is those that don't for a number of reasons.
The biggest criticism I have of "liberalism" is that it tries to ignore or airbrush these issues to suit it's agenda. I also find it a very perverse example of human nature that some "liberals" actually seem to favour people of other cultures and persuasions over there own. It's as if this has become a crusade that overwhelms their own interests in a similar way to Stockholm syndrome. Now their might be some bigger picture here as to why nature inflicts such an attitude on some people but since they are in the minority it must say something more about them and their circumstances than it does about the population as a whole.