Racism

One of the problems in the UK with our insistence on the value of having a multicultural society is that 'powers that be' have limited the ability for dissenters to put their views forward by branding such people as racist. The base line for a multicultural country in which many disparate groups of people from many varied cultures can be drawn together as one, is that we are all basically similar (each gods children) and that the interaction between people will create a new better hybrid with the best, coalescing to enrich the new society.    In the sense that irrespective of skin colour, we are all fundamentally the same, (as the saying goes "skin deep") and we should be able to bury our prejudice. 
The issue is our 'culture', that set of values which we learn and is re-enforced in a particular society as we grow up.
Cultural difference is much more rooted than the 'multiculturalists'  would have us believe.  
Culture is the peg many of us hang our psychological identity on. It's re-enforced by the family, by the expanded family and their families. 
This close knit group expanded further, called the tribe, has enormous influence on each individual, a far greater influence than the hopes and desires of the idealist who set themselves up as experts.
The so called 'Honour Killing' that occurred in Pakistan early this week is a case in point. The woman who was stoned to death by her father and brothers for marrying someone the family disapproved of, is beyond belief to members of our tribe but in Pakistan it is accepted. Even the police stood by as it happened. The street scene where the stoning took place showed what appeared to be masculine indifference, something had taken place which was in accordance with tribal custom, as simple as that and I am sure that wouldn't have understood our horror.
The root stock of this culture is now embedded in the social fabric of our own culture, with many stories of brutality afforded to the female members of the Pakistani community and its patriarchal structure.  Their tribal values are still strongly entrenched as new blood is brought in through immigration and the arranged marriage.
This is only one cultural sector of our multicultural experiment. 
Religion is another factor which can bring deeply held beliefs about the way we conduct our lives, each sect has a different vision of what is correct.  
It is akin to the period when we drew the boarders to represent newly created  nations. We were oblivious of the tribes and their differences, we knew best and our political agenda was more important than the facts on the ground. 
How poorly we are served by a closed minded Establishment determined to prove a point.