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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Culture Culture
« on: April 27, 2020, 12:03:46 pm »
I just think more bubbles will form and deepen, and we'll have to learn to live with that while putting up with our neighbours.  Much easier said than done.  Multiculturalism is only going to deepen.  Multiculturalism means there's no center culture, and it means conflict between cultures is much more likely. 

As I have said before, the idea that multiculturalism is 180 degrees different from the melting pot negates reality.  I know people from China, Israel, etc. who feel more at home in Canada than in their 'home' countries.  Multiculturalism is, to me, an assertion of one's right to express their background without apology but it doesn't mean that Canadians don't blend in.  Far from it, we have had this policy for almost 50 years and Canada is regarded as a model for tolerance internationally.

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I want there to be a "center" culture, not just an "anglo Canada" and a "french Canada".

There will be a "centre".  I do think it will be language based, which is an odd dichotomy maybe.

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  Nothing wrong with having differences, but it's good to have some kind of common culture also to unify us.  Trudeau is naive because he wants multiculturalism and a "post-national state", but doesn't understand the dangers inherent in that.  He's an idealist.  He and many others are hell-bent on eroding much of the common culture Canada has ever had.  They want a multi-polar order but also expect unity.  That's naive idealism.  Quebec is the canary in the coalmine, because they've always rejected multiculturalism.

There is absolutely nothing new in the policies of Trudeau here that I can see.  Don't mistake talk for action.