Amidst the often ferocious and increasingly heated arguments in Britain over multiculturalism comes one angle I had not considered, from Historian David Starkey:

Amidst his comments about modern Britain being deliberately destroyed by Tony Blair’s determination to rub multiculturalism in the faces of conservatives, he starts by asserting that multi-ethnic Yugoslavia only did reasonable well (certainly by global communist standards) when it was under a mild communist government and that as soon as that collapsed it was every tribe for itself, in line with the rest of Balkan history.

But here in New Zealand we were mutlicultural / multi-ethnic right from the start, given that it was British colonists moving into land controlled by Maori tribes.

Yet we managed to build a working democracy, albeit with all the usual rough edges rubbing against each other that is a hallmark of such a society.

The question is whether this can continue given the application of modern Left wing theories such as Post-Colonialism, decolonisation and Critical Race Theory to the modern Maori political movement.

Will we end up with some sort of authoritarian system, made up of competing power centers that operate irrespective of elections because that’s the only way to stop the whole devolving into civil war?