Television is an overly powerful media instrument that affects the individual and collective psyche; it shapes behaviour. Are you not afraid that by promoting multiculturalism within the audiovisual space, we are leading people into a form of cultural balkanization which over the long run, may shape up to be a situation similar to the one prevailing in England currently, whereby there is ethnic confrontation and conflicts between ethnic groups and the host society?
On April 19th, 2007. See this statement in context.