Multiculturalism...more than just a thought or two

As long as the Stranger remains foreign to the Other, the Other will not be racist towards the Stranger, for he is remaining other, while not being influenced by the Stranger. Racism is knowledge the Other has of the Stranger. All the while we thought racism was the Other's ignorance towards the Stranger's culture. In a multi-culturalist society what is better, knowledge or ignorance? The notion of distancing cultures from each other, is not only dated but incomprehensible at this point in time. Too many cultures coincide with each other for us to come and separate them. To know one's culture, is one step to culture acceptance but 10 steps to racial hatred. As one has knowledge of the Stranger's culture, one is able to distinct what they like or don't like about the culture in particular, while multiculturalism doesn't necessarily mean culture acceptance. Usually this distinction becomes very racial in the West, where people are culture accepting, and not racist. Ironic how the white man will be the coloured man's friend, until the point in time where a third party will commit a crime towards a member of the white man's family, who has no connection what so ever with the coloured man, the white man will throw all relations with that man out the window because it just so happens that the third party criminal was also a coloured man. This is very superficial and arrogant. A solution to this behaviour is an illusion we as a multi-culturalist society has left to grow and 'blossom' into serious political, religious and cultural problems. As Baudrillard stipulated "There's no solution to Foreignness, it is eternal and radical. It is not a matter of wanting to be that way. It simply is so."