And then there are some people who are incapable of learning. Bruce http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6035357,00.html Kelly in multi-culturalism plea Press Association Thursday August 24, 2006 2:23 PM Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly has called for a "new and honest debate" on the value of a multi-cultural society in Britain. Launching the Government's Commission on Integration and Cohesion, she warned there was a danger that communities were becoming increasingly isolated from each other. "We have moved from a period of uniform consensus on the value of multi-culturalism to one where we can encourage that debate by questioning whether it is encouraging separateness," she said at the launch in south London. "They are difficult questions and it is important that we don't shy away from them. "In our attempt to avoid imposing a single British identity and culture, have we ended up with some communities living in isolation from each other with no common bonds between them?" The decision to establish the commission, to improve community cohesion and tackle extremism, was originally taken in the wake of last year's July 7 bomb attacks in London. While Ms Kelly said diversity had been a "huge asset" to Britain, she warned that, as new waves of immigrants came into the country, international events increasingly impacted on community relations. "Global tensions are being reflected on the streets of local communities," she said. She also warned of the dangers of white Britons becoming alienated by the pace of social change. Detached from the benefits of those changes, they begin to believe the stories about ethnic minorities getting special treatment and to develop resentment - a sense of grievance, she said.
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