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MeisterEckhart
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Frank wrote on Nov 9 th, 2025 at 9:25am: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 9 th, 2025 at 8:50am: Frank wrote on Nov 9 th, 2025 at 6:33am: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 8 th, 2025 at 8:43pm: Frank wrote on Nov 8 th, 2025 at 3:00pm: The correct sentiments when confronted by a bunch of monocultural Pakistanis in England. Monocultural, eh! Pakistan is so diverse, it has been unable even to define what constitutes a Pakistani Muslim. Both India and Pakistan are the most culturally, ethnically, religiously and socially diverse regions in the world. Multicultural since 2000BC. You are hugely overstep the mark again, as you typically do. By that silly reckoning, Aboriginal Australia was multicultural - lotsa different clans, bands, tribes, lotsa languages. But of course neither India nor Australia were multicultural. Multiculturalism is an artificial, socially engineered, ideologically driven frankenstein's monster of recent invention. Well, gee, Agatha Frank (they/them), Indians consider India a multicultural society, and the nation is characterised as 'unity in diversity'. With 2,000 ethnic groups and 22 official languages (and hundreds of dialects), each with its own ethnicities ( not just clans or tribes), religions/sub-sects, traditions, literature and cuisine. India's Constitution emphasises India's status as a multicultural democracy by guaranteeing freedom of religion, language, and culture. India was a bunch of separate, warring kingdoms, united only under British rule. It wouldn't be a single country (well, now two single countries) without Britain. So in that sense India is an artificial construct. Australia's constitution is older than India's. In fact if is older than most European constitutions. Yes, historically, India (and Pakistan) never existed as nation-states before 1947. In its coming together, India's multicultural nature of the Indic societies it incorporated had to be, and was, acknowledged in its constitution. While Pakistan embarked on a futile 'What is a Pakistani Muslim' religio-academic safari, India shrugged and instead guaranteed its diverse peoples equality under its constitution, with the state (at least on paper) not aligning itself with any ethnicity, religion, or cultural identity, thus framing India as a multicultural democracy.
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