Ian Buruma
The Rise and Fall of European
Multiculturalism

Penn Humanities Forum on Travel

University of Pennsylvania
April 12, 2007
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Minorities in Europe and the U.S. have contended with very different concepts of national identity as they interact with their “mainstream” societies. In a spate of recent events, hostility among Europeans toward their immigrant populations has surfaced so overtly that eminent political expert Ian Buruma is led to wonder whether the much-vaunted notion of European multiculturalism is now dead.