Dr John Sentamu urged people to 'build our dwelling tent together' in his Christmas Day sermon at York Minster.
He said people should focus more on the 'common good' and on the values which had shaped the nation, and less on cultural diversity.
Dr Sentamu also called for a society built on 'giving and not demanding'.
'Love your neighbour'
He told the congregation: 'Together we can make a Britain in which many minority ethnic people will feel it is their dwelling tent too - without making the indigenous population feel that this is no longer the Britain of their fathers'.
'Today, there is a great deal of talk about social inclusion and community cohesion. '
'But surely we must go beyond inclusion and cohesion to a vision of true humanity as we see it in the face of Jesus Christ.'
'I believe we should talk more about the common good and the values that have shaped this nation and less and less about multi-culturalism and cultural diversity. '
'Let us resolve to love our neighbour as ourselves; and do to others as we would want them to do to us.'
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