As a Canadian, I am on board with multiculturalism, and I know from experience that it can and does work okay, as long as "diversity" isn't the goal in and of itself, and that there's a broader blanket culture over top of the multiculturalism that the other cultural groups can buy into and respect.
It used to be that Canada prided itself on being a multicultural mosaic and that every person brought their own unique aspects of culture to share. But above all else, they were CANADIANS first, and had pride in being Canadian. This Canadian pride was probably best captured by this old beer commercial that I can never imagine being made today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pASE_TgeVg8.
But now I'm seeing more and more of a push from the left that we need to hate or be ashamed of the canadian identity and break off into these segregated cultural enclaves, and everything is falling apart.
It also doesn't help that certain groups of immigrants to this country just inherently don't want to integrate with the parent culture (I'm sure you all know what group this tends to be....)
The point is, you need to foster a strong pride in a uniting culture in order for multiculturalism to thrive underneath, or else you just all break up into infighting groups.
As a Canadian, I am on board with multiculturalism, and I know from experience that it can and does work okay, as long as "diversity" isn't the goal in and of itself, and that there's a broader blanket culture over top of the multiculturalism that the other cultural groups can buy into and respect.
It used to be that Canada prided itself on being a multicultural mosaic and that every person brought their own unique aspects of culture to share. But above all else, they were CANADIANS first, and had pride in being Canadian. But now I'm seeing more and more of a push from the left that we need to hate or be ashamed of the canadian identity and break off into these segregated cultural enclaves, and everything is falling apart.
It also doesn't help that certain groups of immigrants to this country just inherently don't want to integrate with the parent culture (I'm sure you all know what group this tends to be....)
The point is, you need to foster a strong pride in a uniting culture in order for multiculturalism to thrive underneath, or else you just all break up into infighting groups.