Multiculturalism is a great and positive force, in an individual, a family, in a circle of friends, in a functioning interacting community .... not however when the term is used to describe insular little cliques within society, isolated from and hostile to each other ..... there is nothing 'multi' about the latter, they are unicultures
It's like 'bilingual education', which i support completely, taking the term to mean 'a system that turns out as its product kids fluent and literate in two [2] languages' ..... emphatically not 'kids who get to learn things in one [1] language they find easiest and use the rest of their time and energy to do drugs and steal stuff' .... or worse than that, 'kids who can't speak or write anything properly', this latter being clearly 'nonlingual education', and spectacularly useless
When the Air India bombing happened, i had just finished doing a couple years of business with a sikh .... we ran into each other, and got talking about it ... he was as absolutely disgusted with such acts as anybody, in fact likely more so, as he felt it reflected on his ethnicity ... his daughter was going out with a kid with a scottish name, and he approved, so that's how uncanadianly insular he was .... i think you have to be careful in throwing around accusations of, You Know How Those People Are
Like the Reform party, in which early on there was clear xenophobe input .... and there may remain a degree of Hey-Speak-White-Eh at work there, don't know .... i'd like to hear how well they support increased immigration from the Hispano-America, before deciding -g-
Mmm .. went looking for a Jefferson quote [which is quite good, the longish one on religion], but this last of Equis' cracked me up [he's always loved Mencken] -
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'Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
H. L. Mencken'
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