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Multiculturalism and Multicultural Education 233not include the comments cited by Bullivant! Nonetheless, the spirit ofGlazer’s opinion is accurately reflected in them.7. Glazer was slightly anticipated here by the journalist and scholar, LouisMenand (1994); he pointed out that ‘almost everyone today... is some kind ofa multiculturalist’.8. Even with ‘strong’ Whorfianism, it is, of course, legitimate to ask why thosethought-determining languages developed differently at all. This would seemto bring us back to the environment again and, indeed, Whorf himself notedthe constant interplay of language patterns and cultural norms.