Multiculturalism- The Myth (original) (raw)

The Mantra of Multiculturalism (MC) has failed flat. 9/11 was only an indicator how even while we live together in the same landscape, our political/cultural ideologies are far deeper to be uprooted by mere liberal rhetoric. This short essay argues that instead of citizenship equality, MC had given birth to a hyphened ethnoreligious identity as Tamil-Canadian or Canadian-Muslim. It shows that liberal discourses with hidden agendas of modern segregations (by hegemony) are far too inadequate to address the structural injustice of the dominant ‘us’ and subaltern ‘other’. Essay calls for a deterritorializing of our public square for liberal Citizenship over identity of Culture.