A multicultural society?

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In the newspaper, which is called as Radikal, there is an article written by Murat  Çelikkan. The title of the article is “Turban and France”. It is about the subcultural groups and ethnical diversity in France. It is not a homogeneous country. In recent years this heterogeneity has become more apparent. As many European countries France has taken many refugees in its territories. 

Culture is defined as the specific customs and the civilization of a particular group of people. Therefore, France has its own cultural identity. Culture creates something that's beautifully complete, but somehow open and uneven. Human beings are not born with it, but learn about it and specify our own culture as time progresses.  Culture is a private thing, one's private beliefs and private way of adhering to them. The traditionalists often feel, as the 'new arrivals' should be pressured to conform to the mentality on which the country, which is meant to be their new home, was built. However altering one's values and assimilation with the majority is a soul-selling act and it collides with the concept of Human Rights to practice one's own religion and culture. Obviously the immigrants have decided themselves to change their homeland and so are meant to try to integrate into the new society without causing any conflicts, but to a certain extent. When a person think of the immigrants, the reason of their migration, there will be found many pushing factors. Maybe a war is going on in their homelands or there had occurred a natural phenomenon, and so on. These pushing factors are so powerful that they can not even think of their new social status in a new society, in a new territory. On the other hand, how would be the greeting of the new society? The new comers would be welcomed or not? The new topography would be affected by their arrivals? But the main point is, why do they leave their homelands and take a journey to the uncertainty? There are predeterministic forces that push them to take a decision to immigrate to a new ideology, which is shaped by intellectuals. Nowadays in France, there can be seen a problem. This problem is crooked urbanization. This is the reason of the wrong settlement. There are some places, which have turned out to be suburbs, or outskirts and some are ghettos, which have no contact with the others. Murat Çelikkan has mentioned in his article, in these ghettos the ethnic communities, the subcultures are living and he calls them as “ the others of France”. What have these ghettos got inside?

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In these suburbs or in ghettos the poor people and different clusters are living. Ghettos include various cultural groups with different ethnicity. Also, from the outside of some ghettos, tension can be felt. Some of them are loaded with criminals, gangsters, robbers, etc. In time these clusters have seized different ideologies or beliefs. For instance, there are trockists, communists, and so on. On the other hand there occurred hostility to some of the minority groups, so racism has occurred. There is also the Islamic community in France. They are a crowded society. According to the statistics France has the largest ...

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