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are henceforth, as Nathan Glazer (1997) has stated,
all multicultural, a point we must surely acknowl-
edge. The multicultural nature of Europe’s national
communities is a recent phenomenon connected
with the sedentarization of those waves of immi-
grants who settled in Europe following the Second
World War, and who all shared the common char-
acteristic of coming from non-European, mainly
Islamic, cultures.
Postcolonial immigrants in Europe live on the
fringes of their respective societies, victims of
racism and discrimination. For those who oppose
it, multiculturalism intends merely to excuse the
fact that integration has failed, and, at the same
time, the fact that the principle of equality has been
defeated. Opponents of multiculturalism are keen
to point out that “praise of difference” is at the
heart of racist discourse (Malik 2001, 31). The
debate is far from over between the following two