Negatives Of Multiculturalism

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No matter where you come from in the world you are who you are and your family around you and your ancestors represent a story about you because you as a person are brought up with a culture whether you label it or not. Culture is what we share as a society or among our families in our community we share our common experience in the way we see the world, we share the same religion, class, gender, race and origin. Culture changes through the generations within each family as the world moves forward with new things but beliefs are still carried through and the concepts in things you believe in this all comes from each generation within your family and community. Cultural groups are not only what you believe in but cultural groups can also be …show more content…

With the way the world has turned out today and the statistics of immigrants coming in from Africa, The Middle East and Eastern Europe there has been positive and negative aspects of multiculturalism within our society.
The positive aspects would be that immigrants improve our economy, they bring in money which improves and strengthens our society and community relations as local business will improve, they also pay taxes for those that work hard in their new community also by having multiculturalism within our community it also improves the relationships between the E.U and other …show more content…

Today multiculturalism is everywhere and unless we want a divide and fractured country where different languages and religions are practiced and communities are divided and having parts of our country dangerous that stop you from going there then as a nation we have to come together and make sure that multiculturalism doesn’t divide our

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