The Twilight of Britain: Cultural Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Toleration"Betts is to be commended on his careful and insightful elucidation of the complex and novel sets of dilemnas now facing the British people at a time of superficial calm masking serious divisions."--Albion |
Contents
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The Convergence of Race Culture Ethnicity Class and Identity | 27 |
Relativism Cultural Moral and Political | 37 |
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Identity | 43 |
The Multicultural Threat | 65 |
Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Nationalism | 83 |
The Appeal of Nationhood and Kinship | 95 |
Prejudice Stereotyping Victimhood and the Culture of Complaint | 215 |
Racial Intolerance and Reverse Racism | 225 |
Positive Discrimination and the Equality Paradox | 245 |
Cultural Assimilation or Separatist Ghettoisation | 255 |
Freedom of Speech Social Censorship and Political Correctness | 271 |
Freedom of Religion and its Misuse | 281 |
Toleration and the Demise of the Anglican Church | 295 |
Toleration Human Nature and Distancing | 303 |
The NationState Sovereignty and the European Union | 105 |
The Obligation of Loyalty and Patriotism | 123 |
The ReEmergence of EthnoNational Conflicts | 133 |
The Education and Understanding Fallacy | 143 |
The Fiction of Global Idealism Cosmopolitanism and the United Nations | 151 |
The Misappropriation of Universal Human Rights | 163 |
Global Migration and Refugees | 177 |
The Failure of Immigration Control | 199 |
Toleration and its Features | 313 |
Toleration as a Moral Virtue and its Limits | 327 |
Pragmatism and the Politics of Negotiation | 339 |
Cultural Nationalism and Multiculturalism Revisited | 347 |
Bibliography | 365 |
Subject Index | 379 |
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