Is the Ultimate Fighting Championship the best example of Classical Multiculturalism today?

No social engineering. No DEI Department. No Anti-Racist or Anti-Bias or Anti-Anything. No CRT trainings. No Intersectionality seminars. No Right Think and Wrong Think policies that repeat the mantra that “racism is embedded in virtually all aspects of or society.” No forced quotas of employees and positions based on race or ethnicity or skin color or gender. Little to no censorship. No mandated from-on-high dictatorial ideological bureaucratic Ivory Tower political associations or political positions. Employees are free to be who they are as human beings: Free beliefs, free thoughts, free decisions, free speech—agree or disagree—freedom is valued as the right of all human beings.

In embracing the rawest form of human nature, the Ultimate Fighting Championship seems to display more diversity of races and nationalities and cultural backgrounds and skin colors—even religions—than virtually any other organization in the United States—perhaps even the entire world.

And this representation of equality—a pure merit system regardless of racial background or cultural heritance or nationality or skin color or gender—also seems to extend to salary and fame i.e. if you perform, if you win, if you bring in a lot of money to the UFC by your performance, it will not be because of your race or your skin color or your nationality or your gender—it will be because of you. And if you do perform, if you do win, and if you do bring money into the UFC, you will be rewarded.

UFC 300 took place on Saturday, April 13th? in Las Vegas, Nevada. A quick look at the fighters of the main card reveals the following (Insert Picture):

1. Alex Pereira vs Jamahal Hill. Alex Pereira is from Brazil. His primary language is Portuguese. He was raised in the hardships of the favelas of Brazil. He has native Pataxo tribal heritage, of which he is very proud. He was a bricklayer assistant until kickboxing and MMA changed his life for the better. Jamahal Hill is from America. His primary language is English. He is a black American who has worked very hard and has been loyal to his lesser known MMA academy to reach greater heights than that which was expected through the determination and hard work of his team.

2. Weili Zhang vs Yan Xiaonan. Weili Zhang is from Handan, China. Her primary language is Mandarin Chinese and her English is improving quickly. She came from a hard background where her father worked in the mines. She went to Beijing in support of her dreams to be an MMA champion, where she worked all types of jobs to finance her career while she trained. Yan Xiaonan is from Liaoning, China. Her primary language is Mandarin Chinese. She was raised in an athletic family and has trained very hard to become a top fighter in MMA.

3. Justin Gaethje vs Max Holloway. Justin Gaethje is from the United States, raised in a small town of blue collar workers in Safford, Arizona. His primary language is English. He is of mixed heritage though most would see him as a white American—his mother is of Mexican descent (Sonora, Mexico) and his father is of German descent. His father worked decades in the copper mines. Justin worked very hard as a collegiate wrestler and later as an MMA fighter. Max Holloway was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. His ethnicity is a blend of Native Hawaiian, Samoan, and Irish ancestries. He had a difficult upbringing as his mother was a crystal Methamphetamine addict, his father was reportedly abusive, and his brothers have faced criminal charges. Max has been the role model of the family, and kickboxing and MMA have led him to great success, where his good character and toughness is known by all.

4. Charles Oliveira vs Arman Tsarukyan. Charles Oliveira is from Brazil. He was raised in the poverty and violence of the favelas of Guaruja, Sao Paulo. His primary language is Portuguese. Charles has brown skin and is known for bleaching his hair blonde. He openly speaks of his Christianity. Jiu Jitsu and later MMA training saved his life. Arman Tsarukyan is Armenian-Russian. He was born in Akhalkalaki, Georgia, but his family moved to Russia for better opportunities. He speaks Armenian, Russian, and English. His hard work and dedication to wrestling and MMA have brought him great success in life.

5. Bo Nickal vs Cody Brundage. Bo Nickal is from the United States. His primary language is English. He is a white American. Bo is open about his Christianity. He was a champion NCAA wrestler before making MMA his profession. His life is marked by a quiet confidence and fierce dedication. He is married. Cody Burndage has a similar background. He is a white American who was also an accomplished wrestler before becoming involved in MMA. He is married and has a daughter.

On the preliminary cards, featured fighters include the following:

6. Ji?í Procházka vs Aleksandar Raki. Procházka is from the Czech Republic. He would be considered white. His primary language is Czech and he speaks English well. Raki is from Austria with a Serbian heritage. He speaks Serbian, German, and English. He may be considered white although his darker skin is evident from his Eastern European roots .

7. Aljamain Sterling vs Calvin Kattar. Sterling is from the United States. He is a black American with Jamaican roots. Wrestling helped him to stay away from the gang influences of his neighborhood. He speaks English. Sterling’s main team member and close friend is Merab Dvalishvili, who is from Georgia, speaks Georgian and Russian and is proud of his Caucasian roots. The two formed such a strong relationship that they refused to fight each other for a championship. Kattar is also from the United States. He is a white American. He speaks English.

8. Kayla Harrison vs Holly Holm. Both ladies are from the United States and speak English. Both ladies are white Americans and have blonde hair. Both are open about their Christian faith.?????????

9. Diego Lopes vs Sodiq Yusuff. Lopes is from Brazil. He moved to Mexico. He would probably be considered of European descent. He was a trained fighter from his early youth. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish. Yusuff was born in Nigeria. He immigrated to the US as a child. He has dark skin. He is a huge fan of anime, Disney, and Marvel and DC superheroes. He stated that his father was Muslim and his mother, Christian, so he decided not to be religious.??

10. Renato Moicano vs Jalin Turner. Moicano is from Brazil. He has light brown skin. He comes from an upper middle-class family and attended university classes to become a lawyer before dropping out to pursue his MMA career. He is married with a son. He speaks Portuguese and English. He recently made headlines by speaking after his fight, stating, “I love America. I love the Constitution. I love the First Amendment. I want to carry and own f-cking guns. I love private property. And let me tell you something, if you care about your f-cking country, read Ludwig von Mises and The Six Lessons of the Austrian economi school, mother f’ckers.”

11. Jéssica Andrade vs Marina Rodriguez. Andrade is from Brazil. She has brown skin. She speaks Portuguese. She was raised on hard farm labor and athletics. She is an open lesbian. Rodriguez is also from Brazil. She has brown skin. She speaks Portuguese. ???????????????

12. Bobby Green vs Jim Miller. Green is from California, United States. He is a black American. He speaks English. Green had a difficult childhood, becoming a foster child. His coach and father figure, Jacob Benny, a white American, also had a rough background, including incarceration. Miller is from New Jersey, United States. He is a white American. His background included wrestling and jiu-jitsu. He worked in construction before becoming a full-time fighter. He is married with four children.

Bobby Green (February 10, 2022): "Right now, in this time in our country, we're doing this whole 'Black Lives Matter'. Everyone's fighting, everyone looting. This is my father. I was born in foster care. I didn't have a mother or father. They gave me a way. My father wasn't fit to be my father. This is my dad here, Jacob Benny. He's been there since the beginning. He's done everything. He'll lay his life down for me, I'll lay my life down for him. I don't judge any man on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. We're here, we love. It doesn't matter what color, it's all about love."?

13. Deiveson Figueiredo vs Cody Garbrandt. Figueiredo is from Brazil. He has dark skin and speaks Portuguese. He enjoys dying his hair blonde. He grew up on a ranch and inherited his father’s knowledge and experience as a wrestler. He is married with children. Garbrandt is from Ohio, US. He is a white American who speaks English. He had a rough family life with his father often being abusive and in prison, and though he excelled in sports, he ended up often in trouble and performing hard manual labor to survive. He has had both great success and failure as an MMA professional.

Now, is the Ultimate Fighting Championship an ideal example of Classical Multiculturalism? No, it is an extreme example, and, it must be understood that the UFC has a combination of prominent and secondary cultures, as do all organizations and all human beings. Having made this clarification, the UFC does provide a blueprint for a multicultural society that seems far superior and far more successful than the artificial means and controls incorporated by professional diversity officers.

The UFC possesses many cultures, as do virtually all organizations, and many are based on excess. Excessive strength. Excessive dedication. Excessive language. Excessive expression. And though there are many male and female fighters that are classy and polite and respectful, press conferences can be brutal as certain alpha males and alpha females seek to intimidate their opponents. As UFC President Dana White said when asked if he should censor what fighters are allowed to say, which is another way of censoring what people are allowed to think and believe, his answer was the following:

“I don’t tell anybody to do anything. I don’t try to control any other human beings in any way, shape or form. I say it all the time, we’re in the fight business and, if you get your feelings hurt that bad you probably shouldn’t ask the type of questions when you know the answer you’re going to get from Strickland (Sean Strickland, a UFC fighter)….”

But what is Classical Multiculturalism? And how does it differ than the prevalent Cultural Marxist Multiculturalism taught in most colleges and universities today as well as mandated culture or race training courses from Corporations and the United States Government under the managerial duty of a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) supervisor?

Cultural Marxism, and therefore its version of Cultural Marxist Multiculturalism, has its historical and convoluted roots in economic Marxist principles of the bourgeoisie (the capitalist owners who are the oppressors and rulers and owners and powerful) and the proletariat (the working class who are the oppressed and victims and powerless).

Seeking to expand Marxist principles to culture, the Frankfurt School leaders (mostly psychiatrists, psychologists, and social theorists) sought to bring about change through the dismantling of Western Culture and their perceived social and cultural power structures that empower Western culture i.e. that which is socially acceptable and grants human beings social power, which Cultural Marxism deemed to be authoritarian in nature. Prominent names include Erich Fromm, Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. These were to be followed by other influential social and cultural theorists that began to mix postmodernism (no absolute truth, no objective meaning, words determining reality) with critical theory, such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault of the 1960s and 1970s. Later, legal scholars, such as Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado in the 1970s to the 2000s began to advance Critical theory further into race theory while Virginia Charles Prince (AKA Arnold Lowman) and John Money and Judith Butler explored and expanded gender theory, influencing the newest evolutionary metamorphosis of cultural theory, resulting in the uprising of professors and popular authors such as Ibram Xolani Kendi (AKA Ibram Henry Rogers) and Robin DiAngelo who specialize in Whiteness Studies.

Classical Multiculturalism has its roots in the Renaissance Period, a time of humanism as the prevalent ideology, and the Age of Enlightenment, with its emphasis on empirical evidence and the scientific method.

Men and women were seen as incredibly beautiful and capable beings and the many nations and cultures from which they came were seen as a source of fascination, intrigue, celebration, and learning from a scientific and objective perspective. Classical Multiculturalism, based in Renaissance humanism, values individual human potential and dignity, and sees culture as an ideology, as a set of customs and traditions, as a way of living from science to art to religion to food to music to romance and beyond. Though not direct promoters of the term Classical Multiculturalism, prominent historical leaders would be Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Thomas Sowell, Cesar Chavez, Bruce Lee, and Thich Nhat Hahn. Modern examples, again, without actually purposely using the term Classical Multiculturalism or attempting to evolve an ideology could be UFC President Dana White, Presidential candidate and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former NFL quarterback and current altruist Tim Tebow and his wife, Demi-Leigh Tebow, Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, YouTuber Arieh Smith (AKA Xiaomany) or political/cultural influencers Candace Owens, Patrick Bet-David, and Coleman Hughes.

Contrasting Quotes:

From Ibram Xolani Kendi and Martin Luther King.

Ibram Kendi (Cultural Marxism Worldview): “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, ‘You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.’ ”

Martin Luther King (Classical Multiculturalism Worldview): “The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone…It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character….one day right down in Alabama little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers…This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring…we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, Black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”

From Robin DiAngelo and Coleman Hughes.

Robin DiAngelo (Cultural Marxism Worldview): “White people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white supremacist worldview because it is the bedrock of our society and its institutions. Regardless of whether a parent told you that everyone was equal, or the poster in the hall of your white suburban school proclaimed the value of diversity, or you have traveled abroad, or you have people of color in your workplace or family, the ubiquitous socializing power of white supremacy cannot be avoided. The messages circulate 24-7 and have little or nothing to do with intentions, awareness, or agreement. Entering the conversation with this understanding is freeing because it allows us to focus on how--rather than if--our racism is manifest. When we move beyond the good/bad binary, we can become eager to identify our racist patterns because interrupting those patterns becomes more important than managing how we think we look to others. I repeat: stopping our racist patterns must be more important than working to convince others that we don't have them. We do have them, and people of color already know we have them; our efforts to prove otherwise are not convincing. An honest accounting of these patterns is no small task given the power of white fragility and white solidarity, but it is necessary.”

Coleman Hughes (Classical Multiculturalism Worldview): “I grew up in a diverse and liberal town, had friends of every race, but didn't think of them as belonging to a race. We had Martin Luther King Day every year in school and we would listen to his famous speech, and I got goosebumps, and lived as close to Martin Luther King's dream as one can, I think. And then when I was around 16, I went to something called the People of Color Conference, which was a kind of elite conference for private school kids. And that was the first time I encountered a totally different attitude towards race. Growing up in Montclair, New Jersey, the attitude was that race is only skin deep, race doesn't matter. You judge people by the content of their character, period. At this conference, I got the idea that my race (my “blackness,” as it was called) was kind of a magical quality. It was like a slice of God inside my soul. Later, I would learn that all these ideas have names like intersectionality, critical race theory. When I was 16, I didn't know any of that. I just knew that this was a very new philosophy and a very strange one. I didn't expect to ever encounter it again, until I went to Columbia University two or three years later and it was now the dominant philosophy. At orientation, they did this exercise where they had the black kids go in one corner, the white kids in another, Asian, Hispanic kids, etc. And my feeling that whatever the intention of this policy, the effect was to be kind of hyper-aware of my classmates seeing me as a black person and as a victim as a result. So the genesis of my interest in race was not that I was interested in race. The genesis was that I was interested in the sharp difference between the philosophy of race I grew up with, which I considered to be the default liberal philosophy of race and the new philosophy of race I encountered at the POC conference and Columbia, which hyper-focused on the importance of racial essence. That difference bothered me a lot and it was my entry point into thinking and writing about race.”

A direct comparison of Cultural Marxism Multiculturalism and Classical Multiculturalism demonstrates the following deep contrast in values and therefore, worldviews:

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): A multicultural person is characterized by being the opposite of perceived Western cultural hegemony i.e. (WASC White Anglo-Saxon Christian/Catholic) white, male, heterosexual, protestant Christian, married with biological children. The further the person is from this characterization, the more cultural the person is and therefore the more qualified to teach culture to others.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): A multicultural person is someone who is culturally competent i.e. a person who is adept at understanding culture and communicating cross-culturally. Typically, cultural competence is acquired through travel, learning languages, and cultivating relationships (marriage, family, friendships) with people from different races and/or nations and/or religions and/or socio-economic classes and/or geographical regions and/or different organizations.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Divide people from every nation in the world into two main categories: white and non-white skin pigmentation AKA People of Color.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Unify people from every nation in the world based on shared personal values.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Categorize people from every nation in the world according to race, which is assigned at birth: the definition of race is decided by government officials as guided by social theorists according to shared vague physical characteristics and ancient historical origins of regional occupancy, such as Asia or Europe or Africa or South America or the Middle East.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Recognize that modern human beings AKA homo sapiens sapiens are incredibly unique and regardless of our somewhat mysterious origins, we are able to reproduce and have done so with fellow human beings over thousands of years, which has led to a fascinating and wide spectrum of physical attributes within the human race.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Misunderstanding and miscommunication among people of different races, nationalities, ethnicities, and skin color since it is impossible to understand another human being if these categories are not the same or nearly the same.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Understanding and communication among people of different races, nationalities, ethnicities, skin color since universal themes of humanity exist that transcend such categories and allow shared experiences and deep connection.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Culture is static, monolithic, conflated with race and nationality confined by race and nationality, and assigned at birth while anchored in the past within a specific time and place i.e. an event or events, that may have occurred ten years ago or fifty years ago or two-hundred years ago in a specific location.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Culture is fluid, multifaceted, conflated with ideology i.e. social beliefs and customs, influenced by nations and even organizations and institutions, but ultimately chosen and rejected by individuals who are aware of the past but live in the present.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Identity is discovered and defined by belonging to an established group, a group that was founded and established by others, a group that only allows people to join if they possess specific genetic attributes or conform to a specific ideology; and, if people decide not to join and to be defined by the established group, they are still assigned and defined by governmental officials and social theorists who claim the authority to assign them to a group identity.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Identity is discovered and defined by individuals who choose what they believe and establish why they hold these beliefs. Identity is personal and defined by the personality, the thoughts and feelings and actions throughout the lifetime of the individual.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Morality is subjective as oppressed people have no power; therefore, they are incapable of immorality or wrongdoing and are exempt of personal responsibility since they are victims of society.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Morality is objective and applies to all human beings. Classical virtues of love, honesty, kindness, respect, discipline, compassion are recognized as leading to a healthy individual and a prosperous society. Classical vices of hatred, dishonesty, cruelty, disrespect, gluttonous, selfishness are recognized as leading to a depraved individual and a sick society.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Judgment and evaluation occur according to an assigned category based on race, skin color, and sexual orientation with varying standards that change according to the category assigned. Categorical assignment is the main basis for success and failure.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Judgment and evaluation occur according to universal standards that are applied to individuals. Individual merit is the main basis for success and failure.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Race is the foundation for all social systematic injustice in the world with skin color a close second. European and white or light-skinned people are categorized as privileged and oppressors regardless of their personal experience or socio-economic experience or regional experience in life. Non-white people and especially darker skinned people are categorized as underprivileged regardless of their personal experience or socio-economic experience or regional experience in life.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Race or skin color are simply components that factor in the broad category of prejudice, which could and often does include race or skin color, but more often extends to physical attractiveness or socio-economic status or religion or talent or skill or whether one is part of the majority or minority within a local community.

Cultural Marxism (CRT, IS, DEI, AR) Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Desired future is equity i.e. everyone has the same results and in organizations, there is equal representation according to a set of social categories that include race, skin color, sexual orientation, etc. The methodology, the course, to reach this desired future is to promote and favor those who are perceived as oppressed by society and to limit and punish those who are perceived as privileged by society until no oppression or privilege exists. Government officials and social theorists largely control the system of evaluation which is based on who they believe should have more or less opportunities and who they believe should have more or less promotion. However, no answer is given as to what happens when the theorized oppressors become the oppressed, and the theorized oppressed become the oppressors; or, the theorized majority becomes the minority, and the theorized minority becomes the majority; or, the theorized privileged becomes the underprivileged, and the theorized underprivileged become the privileged.

Classical Multiculturalism Doctrine (teaching): Desired future is equality and justice for all i.e. everyone has the same right to opportunities to advance and will receive equal treatment according to government law or institutional policy. The methodology, the course, to reach this desired future is to establish just standards which are to be applied to everyone to evaluate the performance of each individual. No quotas or categories in organizations exist.

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Novel 8 To Be A Champion John Kim is the second born. He does not feel second, however, but last. His father constantly belittles him while openly favoring his older brother, Paul, who is the more handsome and stronger of the two. As if this is not enough, Paul is also a celebrated black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Paul is everything that John is not. Tired of being rejected, John decides to give up entirely. He stops training and avoids both his father and his brother. As he does so, his resentment for them grows. Struggling with loneliness, John meets Robson Da Silva, a new student who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under his uncle, Mario Da Silva. A new friend, a new martial art, and a new teacher open the way toward the true meaning of being a champion.

Novel 9 Eyes Wide Open Betania struggles when her family moves from Veracruz, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas. Not only does she have to adapt to a new culture, but she is belittled for not speaking English at her new school. In her loneliness, she turns to her older sister and other Mexican immigrants in her neighborhood for comfort. Unfortunately, when she attends what she thought to be an innocent party, she quickly finds out that the music and laughter are all part of a recruiting ploy for a powerful gang. Before she realizes the danger, Betania is in. Getting out will not be so easy.

Novel 10 Beyond The Elite Aaron Holmes and Terry Washington are more than cousins; they are like brothers. Both of them live with their grandparents and both of them are star athletes. As they prepare for the next football season, they are well aware that their coach believes that a state title is within their grasp. Aaron, optimistic and intuitive by nature, feels more than ready for such a challenge. Terry, a highly intellectual and introspective young man, struggles with issues he considers far deeper than football. He dwells on his difficult upbringing and the many injustices of the world. This deep introspection makes him vulnerable to a radical new political organization, known as The Standard, which is led by the mysterious genius, Doctor Timothy Ajala, who hails from Nigeria. But Timothy Ajala is no ordinary leader; he has aspirations to change the world according to the principles laid out thousands of years ago by the philosopher Plato. And he is determined to fulfill his mission by any means possible. Terry feels an instant connection and a sense of identity with Doctor Ajala, but in the end must decide if in following Doctor Ajala he will lose his very own soul and all that is precious to him. Aaron must decide if he can follow the simple life principles taught to him by his grandfather and in the meantime, save his cousin.??????????????????

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