Recognizing the multiple cultural influences in Western history is an important means not only to reduce tensions in our communities but also to encourage more understanding and respect among our societies.
Source/Credit: Common Ground News
By Arwa Ibrahim | July 2, 2013
London - The debate about multiculturalism resurfaced after the recent Boston bombings, Woolwich attack and Stockholm protests. Many now feel justified in saying that multiculturalism across Europe and the West has failed miserably. It’s easy to feel that cultures are boundaries, incapable of coexisting.
But history has proven otherwise.
Recognizing the multiple cultural influences in Western history is an important means not only to reduce tensions in our communities but also to encourage more understanding and respect among our societies.
The European Renaissance, beginning in the 14th century, is known for being an age of preoccupation with science, learning and invention. But the passion for wider social and political knowledge, disassociated from a religious interpretation of the world, only reached Europeans in the 18th century when Enlightenment philosophers such as Voltaire, Locke and Hobbes promoted ideas to help improve living conditions through science and reason.
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