Multiculturalism Does Not Serve Modern Society (Here's Why!) — Transcript

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1. 0:00multiculturalism does not serve modern
2. 0:02society
3. 0:03what what did he say it's safe to say
4. 0:07that we're living in a multicultural
5. 0:08environment particularly in the West for
6. 0:10example in Ireland one in eight people
7. 0:12come from a culturally diverse
8. 0:13background and when we look at younger
9. 0:16Generations we see the largest
10. 0:17population of culturally and ethnically
11. 0:19diverse people to proudly call
12. 0:21themselves Irish myself included
13. 0:24but what we're actually seeing now as a
14. 0:27result of this Multicultural environment
15. 0:28is toxic polarization and divisions that
16. 0:32are now really being exploited in online
17. 0:34and in digital media spaces so what's
18. 0:37happening here aren't we supposed to be
19. 0:39more tolerant given the fact that we are
20. 0:40in a multicultural environment social
21. 0:43psychology paints a different picture
22. 0:46hi my name is I am a social psychologist
23. 0:49and the founder of garm and if you want
24. 0:51to learn how to unify cross differences
25. 0:52make sure to subscribe
26. 0:54having a Multicultural Society does not
27. 0:57necessarily mean that we're winning in
28. 0:59the diversity game yes ethnic diversity
29. 1:01is a reality but it's not an indicator
30. 1:04of social cohesion or integration
31. 1:06between communities you see being a
32. 1:09Multicultural Society does not really
33. 1:11mean that we're playing out
34. 1:12multiculturalism in our everyday lives
35. 1:15the truth is that multiculturalism and
36. 1:18other terms such as assimilation
37. 1:19integration interculturalism are ideas
38. 1:22of how we manage and deal with diversity
39. 1:25in our everyday lives so when we talk
40. 1:27about multiculturalism it's the way in
41. 1:29which governments people organizations
42. 1:32and Society at large think of deal with
43. 1:35and play out diversity when it comes to
44. 1:38our everyday lives
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46. 1:42environments we value give access and
47. 1:45respect the differences that come with
48. 1:48different identities and different
49. 1:49cultural backgrounds in a given
50. 1:51environment this is particularly
51. 1:53important when it comes to respecting
52. 1:55underrepresented or minoritized
53. 1:57communities in a given State however
54. 2:01bombastic side eye traditional
55. 2:04understandings of multiculturalism tend
56. 2:07to focus on group-based differences of
57. 2:09course we're all different and it's
58. 2:11something that we should be celebrated
59. 2:12but when those differences are the
60. 2:14things that are solely emphasized all
61. 2:17the time this can actually lead to more
62. 2:20separation more division more
63. 2:22stereotyping and more Prejudice and what
64. 2:26social psychologists have found is that
65. 2:28when we emphasize all the time these
66. 2:31group-based differences this could
67. 2:32actually lead to what we call othering
68. 2:35and othering is when we neatly Define
69. 2:37Who belongs and who does not belong in a
70. 2:40given Society
71. 2:42it's when we decipher who has access and
72. 2:45privilege to certain things in our
73. 2:47community and who is to blame for the
74. 2:49shortcomings of why there are more
75. 2:51powerful structures particularly when
76. 2:53there's limited resources
77. 2:56given the sharp skew to better attitudes
78. 2:59towards diversity in Western societies
79. 3:01which has proved to be positive towards
80. 3:05minoritized or traditionally other
81. 3:06communities promoting human rights
82. 3:09Equity belonging however researchers
83. 3:13have shown that
84. 3:14people in minoritized communities tend
85. 3:16to really like multiculturalism because
86. 3:18it helps them better understand and keep
87. 3:20their identities but they've actually
88. 3:22found that people in majority groups
89. 3:25some people tend to feel it as
90. 3:27threatening towards their identity
91. 3:29this can not only further the process of
92. 3:31othering for already vulnerable
93. 3:33communities because in this case
94. 3:34majority group holds the power it can
95. 3:37actually have the majority members
96. 3:39feeling like they're left out of the
97. 3:42conversation which can actually lead to
98. 3:46self-segregation and the likelihood of
99. 3:48people being pulled into extreme ideas
100. 3:51that can harm wider Society social
101. 3:53psychologists have found that some
102. 3:55Multicultural initiatives can actually
103. 3:58make Prejudice worse
104. 4:02particularly when it's presented in a
105. 4:04way that the majority group seed as
106. 4:07coercive or they're being forced to do
107. 4:10it they found that how the initiatives
108. 4:13were framed and the motivations behind
109. 4:16it both internally and externally are
110. 4:19often indicators to the effectiveness of
111. 4:22Multicultural initiatives or diversity
112. 4:24incentives particularly tackling
113. 4:26Prejudice systemic inequalities and
114. 4:30institutional and structural racism
115. 4:33so what can we learn from this yes
116. 4:35traditional forms and understandings of
117. 4:38multiculturalism has been a great
118. 4:40starting point in terms of improving the
119. 4:42conditions of traditionally minoritized
120. 4:44or othered communities it's been a model
121. 4:47where differences are seen they're
122. 4:49promoted they're tried to be accepted
123. 4:52but not necessarily respected between
124. 4:56communities
125. 4:57what I'm saying here is that if we do
126. 5:00not focus on inter-group relations when
127. 5:03it comes to promoting diversity and how
128. 5:05different communities can come together
129. 5:07and engage across lines of differences
130. 5:10I'm afraid that we're going to be doing
131. 5:11ourselves a disservice what's going to
132. 5:14happen is that we will continue to see
133. 5:16people being drawn into ideas that
134. 5:19really promote and really feed into
135. 5:21their concerns and anxieties of these
136. 5:24other communities we need to move Beyond
137. 5:27traditional ideas of multiculturalism
138. 5:29which can in fact bring more hate
139. 5:31Prejudice and divisions in society and
140. 5:34move towards a society that positively
141. 5:36Bridges engages and unifies across
142. 5:39differences
143. 5:41so what is this idea called This is
144. 5:44called interculturalism in an
145. 5:45Intercultural Society not only do we
146. 5:47promote this idea of differences between
147. 5:49ourselves but we actually engage in the
148. 5:52commonalities too in an Intercultural
149. 5:54Society we actually positively engage
150. 5:57with people who are different from us
151. 5:59through Intercultural dialogue
152. 6:01communication or even through our
153. 6:02Behavior this not only breaks down
154. 6:04divisions breaks down stereotypes and
155. 6:07things that we may think of of different
156. 6:09communities but it can actually build a
157. 6:12more unified Society
158. 6:13so how do we actually create an
159. 6:16Intercultural Society it's actually done
160. 6:18through psychology again soft plug it's
161. 6:22done through Intercultural competence so
162. 6:25if you want to learn more about
163. 6:26interculture competence stay tuned on
164. 6:27our Channel and we will teach you how
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167. 6:52thank you
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