Last year, Germany’s Angela Merkel made an audacious pronouncement — she said that “multikulti” or multi-culturalism was not working to keep her country a cohesive nation-state with shared values that support needed public policies. Other EU countries like Britain and France hold the same views but were then too timid to give them voice. Here in America, the election and then re-election of President Obama has highlighted our prominent cultural divides. Many people diagnosed Mitt Romney’s problem as not being able to attract the black and Hispanic votes. And as we saw last Tuesday, Americans voted strongly along ethnic and …