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I think the first time I heard the word was from Michael Foot, surrounded by woolly hats and members of other cultures, he said "We are now a multicultural society!" (loud cheers).
Finkielkraut, Arksided, may to you, have a German-sounding name but he is French not German (his father died in Auschwitz) to suggest he is, would be like saying Serena Williams is Welsh!
Though he is quite vehement about what he sees as the destruction of the cultural identities of nations by multiculturalism, he is also wary of jingoism and concedes that ' Europeans have good reasons for mistrusting patriotic pride, the notion of identity, which originated in the romantic counter-Enlightenment, was later picked up by blood and soil nationalists and discredited by the Nazis - the spectre of Auschwitz commands us not to be fixated on our roots.'
But he lambasts sophisticates 'who buy falafel and the latest world music, but are just as reluctant to live among immigrants as the poor whites they look down for fleeing multi-ethic neighbourhoods, "It is from the comfort of their own world that they cultivate exoticism".