Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache View Post
I was watching Newsnight last night and a Norwegian politician was being interviewed. He was a year older than me and stated that immigration into Norway didn't start until the early to mid sixties. He admitted that he didn't physically meet anyone other than a white person until he was 17. (1976)

He then went on to say that multiculturalism was the accepted policy in western Europe.

The question I ask is this.

Why did the west commit to multiculturalism?

Who decided to do this?

What, if any, are the benefits?
Well for an interesting tidbit, in postwar Europe, up to 1968/early 70s, it was the left which resented mass immigration, even multiculturalism, and the right which imposed it. As Casanova (PCF , French Communist Party) understood, 'the working class is racist and imperialist'. Fight the Algerians, prevent their coming over, recruit amongst white Algerians for the left. Meanwhile the right demanded Algerian workers in France, to keep wages down and to limit the power of the unions. The left, especially the PCF, tried to protect the working class from this competition. Where the PCF was in power, social housing was refused to Algerians, their position made miserable by other legal means too.