Thoedore has spent many years as a Doctor in whats cocidered the slums of Britian wherein he has witnessed first hand the often devistating effects associated with multicultrialim primarily in regards to the genarational gap between immigrants and their children who themselves are being raised in a modern day sociaty. The majority of the cases in which Theodore touches on in his 1995 essay, ''Reader, she married him alas" are from Indian and Pakastan decent both of whom have deep seeded cultral beliefs and practices to which the elder first genaration tends to clings to. To preserve their cultural identity, most minorities value endogamy, or marriage within the group, and frown highly on intermarriges between minority, and majority groups for
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While Theodore makes it clear that he believes immagration in Britan to be a "healthy phenomon", he is not blind to the irefutable effects of a multicultral sociaty compiled of a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, religions, and beliefs. In fact, he asserns that 'The idea that we can all rub along together, without the law having to discriminate in favor of one set of cultural values rather than another, is worse than merely false: it makes no sense whatever.' Becuase of his line of work Theodore is a witness to some of the most tragic casses surrounding multicultralism, and its profound impacts helping to validate his previous quote. Throughout his paper Theodore highlights both how imigreation has inriched britians culture as well as the obvious issues with intaragting mutipal cultures into one sociaty. Theodores main arguement being that you cannot expect an already deeply devote culture set in their ways to be able to coincide with a sociaty having different cultural beliefs without substantial repercussions. Furthermore, Theodore claims that if we are to allow immagrents to uphold certain cultural beliefs that conflict with western sociaties laws it will result in chronic cival war, sending a message to all other groups that they to now have such
While Theodore makes it clear that he believes immagration in Britan to be a "healthy phenomon", he is not blind to the irefutable effects of a multicultral sociaty compiled of a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, religions, and beliefs. In fact, he asserns that 'The idea that we can all rub along together, without the law having to discriminate in favor of one set of cultural values rather than another, is worse than merely false: it makes no sense whatever.' Becuase of his line of work Theodore is a witness to some of the most tragic casses surrounding multicultralism, and its profound impacts helping to validate his previous quote. Throughout his paper Theodore highlights both how imigreation has inriched britians culture as well as the obvious issues with intaragting mutipal cultures into one sociaty. Theodores main arguement being that you cannot expect an already deeply devote culture set in their ways to be able to coincide with a sociaty having different cultural beliefs without substantial repercussions. Furthermore, Theodore claims that if we are to allow immagrents to uphold certain cultural beliefs that conflict with western sociaties laws it will result in chronic cival war, sending a message to all other groups that they to now have such