Successful multicultural societies are difficult to get right. When people from different communities have mixed together, they have often fought over religious or ethnic differences. Tribal loyalties usually trump any attachment to a universal humanity. Contemporary Britain is far from perfect, but it’s one of the most successful liberal and democratic multicultural nation states in history.
One of the reasons Britain has been successful in this is that it has encouraged people to be both proud of their culture and of a larger British identity. The risk with this kind of multiculturalism is when communities are proud of their culture and nothing else. This has exploded into reality in Leicester.
