After reading Multiculturalism, Minority Identities and The Public Sphere, it was clear that we could question the notion of inclusivity and respect the “differences” in the University while there are still terms such as BAME applied to university statistics and shared every year.

As a person of colour, I found Calhoon’s essay problematic as it still considers faith and multiculturalism as a subject to which academics need to adjust and understand as if there was still a limit between the group of academics, which we assume reading this text, would be in majority white and men, and the student population.

This text displays perfectly a biased view of the topic and raises the question of inclusivity and positioning of the author toward it.

The important point is that despite the unpopularity of the term ‘multiculturalism’, doubts about certain policies and anxieties about certain minorities, there is present today within mainstream public discourses a particular way, alongside others, of conceiving of this diversity, namely not in terms of toleration (ie, putting up with something negative), but rather of feeling that minorities need to be included without having to assimilate, without having to conform to the norms and attitudes of the majority.”

Mohood recognises that it is not to the minorities to adapt but the job of everyone to be respectful.
Living in South London, Peckham is often referred to as the most multicultural neighbourhood of London, I recognise this difference between the different cultures, faiths, heritages, and ethnicities living next to each other in respect. But labelled as minorities by the mainstream media and threatened by the current gentrification of South London by developers which “tolerate” and market this “multiculturalism” as a product in the media while endangering its existence, reminding everyone that these differences are still seen as “other” and not part of the British life.