Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, June 22, 2018
Many years ago the anthropologist Mary Douglas observed that even the absolute truths of mathematics were relative because of being culturally located. Nigel Pocock The truths of mathematics may be absolute, but they have no value unless this is imparted to them by a culture. From a very different […]
I want to argue that there is one key component in minority ‘success’, whether materially or in terms of recognition—good communication. Nigel Pocock The attitude of majority society is an extremely important determining factor in the social success of any individual from a minority group. Positive discrimination towards […]
Secular democracy will always find a point of tension with theocracies, and will not be able to relativise them. Nigel Pocock This is the brick wall of multiculturalism, beyond which it cannot go, without setting up its own sacred grove at which worship is compulsory. A long time ago, […]
‘Islamophobia’, a pseudo medical term, designed to silence the arguments of opponents, by socially ostracising them? A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear. Could it be that those who use the term, are really the ones who have the ‘phobia’, a phobia about not being able to handle the arguments of […]
I want to examine the key issue of how to establish a balance of diversity and unity. Too much diversity, and society will fragment; too much unity and we have a closed society. How do we find the balance? Is it too much to suggest that it is possible to […]
