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I admit most of what I learned in university was either forgotten or not useful in the first place. That being said I will always remember my first year politics course on western democracies. One of the first things our professor taught us was that to understand American culture you had to know the difference between multiculturalism and the melting pot. I'll also give the professor for explaining the two in a non bias manner (he was even able to explain why the electoral college can be seen as positive despite its initial obvious drawbacks). Anyways for unaware in Canada we adopted a multicultural view to immigrants meaning that different cultures were celebrated and society was heterogeneous. Whereas in the united states the melting pot view was that outside cultures needed to assimilate to the dominate one and therefore a more homogeneous society emerged. There are benefits and drawbacks to both approaches. I can not stress enough how much of a factor the melting pot mentality is in today's political climate.
I also cannot help but laugh at someone calling me self righteous or see it as bragging because I do not use the n word. That's an extremely fucked up world view.
In order for any human (or really any other species of life, especially social animals) to exist in a stable population/society there needs to be some sort of hierarchy/order/culture where everybody knows their general place. This isn't about racism or sexism or religious intolerance, it goes way deeper than that and has literally been around billions of years.
This is basically what culture is in the first place. A society gets together and organically determines, these are our dominate Norms that most people are going to follow, and that is how societies function. The whole idea of a "multiculturalism" is an extremely modern, untested idea. It has worked so far in Canada and some of the other Western European countries where there is a distinct majority culture, whereas small minority cultures are allowed to be held up and celebrated on the periphery, but there is still order and the majority still feels safe because they are such a huge numerical majority.
I suspect multiculturalism, especially in a democracy, only works when the majority culture is a true majority. I think the whole thing will inevitably fall apart when minority cultures become demographically so large they actually threaten the majority culture. I suspect Canada and the Western European democracies that currently celebrate "multiculturalism" so strongly are going to develop serious tensions and have a very strong backlash if/when demographic shifts make it so the dominant culture isn't a plurality. We are already starting to see this in places like England and France where demographic trends are causing the dominant ethnic groups to lose population share.
Maybe I am wrong. But I suspect that if Canada keep on its current trend of immigration, birth rates and demographic change there is going to be some major multicultural based tensions, including a serious increase in "white naitonalism" as an inevitable response.
The irony is that every other non Western country/culture implicitly understands this. If you go to any non white country and suggest that country willingly import people from other cultures and support multiculturalism to the point where they are no longer even a plurality anymore, and they will go tell you to fuck yourself. It will never happen. You think Japan or China or Iran or Nigeria would ever support multiculturalism. No fucking way. They know it would be cultural suicide.
You actually see this in the oil rich small gulf states. These states import huge amounts of foreign labor to support their infrastructure. But they are very cognizant not to support multiculturalism. It is very clear. You are here to work, you are a second class (or worse) guest here, and as soon as you are done with the job we are kicking you out. They need the foreign labor, but no way are they allowing their own culture to be subsumed in the name of "multiculturalism"
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