[P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"]Jim Crow: I went to the site that you suggested. Of course, that is not my kind of site.[SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"] [/SPAN]The suggestion again reflects my concern. Whenever anyone wishes to discuss multiculturalism they are, as you insinuate, automatically proclaimed racist, Nazi or whatever fill in the blank pejorative.
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[P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"]I have embraced multiculturalism for twelve years married to a Punjabi woman. I have been "enriched" by the experience of diverse cultures. Nor am I stranger to other cultures in Canada, including many stints at Dr Sun Yat[SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"] [/SPAN]Sen Gardens, drinking beer with Haida colleagues in the Charlottes and teaching the benefits and virtues of multiculturalism to First Nations, Koreans, Chinese, and Peruvians for over a decade. I feel I can easily voice a well versed and well earned opinion of the positives of multiculturalism.
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[P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"]But when I speak to multiculturalism, I do so in regard to the centripetal and centrifugal forces that create and maintain nationhood, or conversely undermine and destroy. The [?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /][st1:country-region w:st="on"][st1:place w:st="on"]USA[/st1:place][/st1:country-region] with its founding documents, capitalist economic philosophy, and general sense of patriotism provide clear gravitational forces that ensure a degree of unity.[SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"] [/SPAN]I suspect [st1:country-region w:st="on"][st1:place w:st="on"]Canada[/st1:place][/st1:country-region], without founding documents and with a history of compromises ( not that there is something wrong with any specific compromise) does not have the same glue binding it to nationhood. Every decade the Quebecois take a stab at that notion.
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[P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"]And so, I question the entire multicultural policy of development. Not because it has no virtue. It does and I have benefited. But what flows from the policy is evil. When free men can no longer speak without being labeled racist or suffer state sanctions, that is evil. When an entire society is sanitized and overseen by government for "improper thoughts", that is evil. If you actually believe this is NOT happening in [st1:country-region w:st="on"][st1:place w:st="on"]Canada[/st1:place][/st1:country-region], particularly since the Constitution Act (1982),[SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"] [/SPAN]you deserve what you get. [SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"] [/SPAN]But worse, it is the end of the glue that holds a nation together.[SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"] [/SPAN]Unless, of course, you want something other than a nation.