Assess The Importance Of Community Cohesion In The UK

Community cohesion in the UK is a struggle because some people have a nationalist belief that Britain should stay British and embracing a sense of multiculturalism is taken to be unpatriotic and wrong by some but also non nationalists disagree with the slowly rising rate of migration in to the UK. This leads many into believing that anybody that isn’t white and holding a British passport are only over here to seek a better standard of living and to receive state benefits , amongst other things . Whereas if Britain was to close its borders and stop migration, we as a country would cease to have such a diverse population spreading from all four corners of the globe. Bringing with it, different customs/traditions/food and religion but also people willing to do the lower paid jobs or jobs that most British people wouldn’t want to do because the money or the mere fact that they are more likely to get a job here is better than what they would get back at home. British people need to embrace and accept multi culturalism, it can help to understand world culture religious / social customs and traditions from around the world.
Hon David Cameron PM addressed a security conference in Munich where he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism because of the significant lack of national identity in Britain. He Stated that “State multiculturalism has failed” (Rt. Hon David Cameron PM 2011) and because of the lack of community cohesion under the "doctrine of state multiculturalism", “different cultures have been encouraged to live separate lives” (Rt. Hon David Cameron PM 2011).This goes completely against the very meaning of multi culturalism and community cohesion because it is said to prevent people embracing and understanding world culture religious / social customs and traditions from around the world and those of the people in which they live and work alongside on a day to day basis