Multiculturalism has failed to help integration, first British youth religion survey finds

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A LEADING secular Muslim has called for the government to do more to tackle the continued segregation between religious groups in some of the most diverse areas of the country.

by Chine Mbubaegbu - 16th January 2014 Lapidomedia

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2 thoughts on “Multiculturalism has failed to help integration, first British youth religion survey finds”

  1. An interesting comment that discrimination is implied to arise when White Christians are in the majority. One wonders whether this is then the only circumstance in which religious discrimination arises? Or is religious discrimination endemic where any religion is in the majority? Or particular supremacist religions? What evidence exists for the assertion that majority White Christian communities inevitably give rise to religious discrimination? I

  2. There is a copy of the report attached to the report. The headline fails to do justice to progress in the last 10 years At page 204 it says

    A largely comfortable blend of tolerance and tension characterised the research areas. Young people were keen to stress the advantages of living in multi-faith communities but yet were not oblivious to the disadvantages it could bring. In Bradford there was a definite sense that inter-group relations were better than in the past, but that ethnic and religious conflict and suspicion had not disappeared. Some pointed to the tension between lessons on different faiths and cultures in school and what is learned experientially in the community. Asked if there is religious conflict or if religious difference is celebrated, one participant said ‘I wouldn’t say it’s celebrated or there’s any religious problems either’.
    Most young people talked positively about diversity and stressed how it was much harder for discrimination to arise in settings, such as Newham where White Christians are now in a minority, where everyone is different

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