Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together by Timothy Garton Ash | The New York Review of Books

While he is writing specifically about today's Europe, Ash's comments on multiculturalism (or moving beyond it) have relevance to our school communities as well.  He writes:

Nor is this only a task for public policy. It is the personal responsibility of every one of us who lives in such a society. The character of everyday interactions, at school, at work, on the street, in the café, will affect the attitudes of migrants and postmigrants at least as much as any high policy. Small slights alienate, small courtesies integrate.

Freedom & Diversity: A Liberal Pentagram for Living Together by Timothy Garton Ash | The New York Review of Books