British multiculturalism operated through local authorities rather than national policy.

Evidence

We should be clear that multiculturalism was never an official policy in Britain: there was no British equivalent of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act of 1988, officially enshrining toleration of difference. However, inasmuch as recognition of the needs of minority groups came to affect civil society in Great Britain, it did so primarily in those areas where social provision—education, housing, and cultural activities—was in the gift of sympathetic local authorities. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 154

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does the local, discretionary character of British multiculturalism (‘in the gift of sympathetic local authorities’) undercut the post-9/11 charge that multiculturalism was a top-down official imposition?

Related

• Novels rejecting the burden of representation mirror Britain’s shift from multiculturalism to neoliberal individualism. (similarity 0.84)
• Multiculturalism was imposed from above and atomized minorities into competing ethnic camps (similarity 0.79)
• Multiculturalism was an ineffecutive lived vibe, not a coherent policy approach (similarity 0.79)
• Multiculturalism allocated resources by ethnicity, deepening tribal divisions (similarity 0.78)
• British multicultural accommodation remains piecemeal rather than principled policy (similarity 0.78)