“Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, ‘Let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains’”.

He is a serious and admirable person; all the same, this is strange. Does the “majority culture” ever stop talking about “its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains”?

I suppose it depends what you mean by “majority”. The official culture of the UK is a minority culture; its story is the story of a minority posing as a majority, imposing its perspective, exercising cultural hegemony. Perhaps we could indeed stand to hear a little more about the glories, struggles, joys and pains of the real majority. But the voices of that majority would not then be those of a single “culture” expressing itself in the direction of “other cultures”: the culture of the majority is already hybrid.