How can “multiculturalism” bring people together?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readSep 19, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“Does multiculturalism REALLY bring people together?”

No, multiculturalism distances people from each other. We instinctively and inevitable turn to those who are different from us with distrust and animosity. And it does not matter what the propaganda says, what we show or say on the outside, we can’t overcome our basic instincts and face “others” with negative judgement, criticism and rejection. This is how we are born.

On the other hand, through the right education, we can learn how to start trusting each other and build sustainable, positive and constructive, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing interconnections and cooperation above and beyond everything that separates and rejects people, cultures and nations from each other.

For that to happen, we need to understand and start to actually and “viscerally” feel how inevitably integrated and interdependent we have all become. This is where the right, purposeful and practical education can help us.

When we start to see and feel each other as cells of the same living organism, then multiculturalism will lead to a cohesive, mutually strengthening and living human mosaic when each part performs its own, crucially important and irreplaceable role and function for the sake of the whole.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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