--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > On May 22, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Ingegerd wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > In the 70ths the Movement told us that 1 % had learned 
TM 
> in 
> > > Israel
> > > > > > and Canada. Whar happened to the 1% effect?
> > > > > 
> > > > > And some parts of Canada had over 1%. Canada IMO is a 
sattvic 
> > > > > country--certainly compared to the US. Inner spirituality 
in 
> > > general 
> > > > is 
> > > > > very prevalent there, cities are spotless, etc.
> > > > 
> > > > Canada is a racist country on the verge of splitting up.  
How 
> > > sattvic 
> > > > is that?
> > > > 
> > > > But for the grace of the United States does Canada enjoy the 
> > > standard 
> > > > of living that they enjoy.  Of course, they've never 
> said "thank 
> > > you" 
> > > > to the U.S. for it...
> > > 
> > > Which races do Candians show bigotry against?
> > 
> > Segregation in schools in now official in Canada, as a result of 
a 
> > Supreme Court of Canada decision a few months ago.  There are 
two 
> > classes of people in Canada, specifically in Quebec: those that 
can 
> > freely choose to send their children to English or French 
publicly-
> > funded schools and those that do NOT have that choice and must 
send 
> > their children to French schools.  The free choice "right" is 
> > determined according to a form of discrimination that is 
virtually 
> > identical to both the Canadian Indian Act and the apartheid 
system 
> > of South Africa (now extinct): who your parents are and what 
their 
> > classification is.
> 
> Interesting. That still doesn't meet the usual definition 
> of "racist," however.

Neither does the actual apartheid system of South Africa.  

If you read certain South African case law, such as Moller v. 
Keimoes School Committee and another 1911 AD 635, racial segregation 
was determined according to a process that would not be under the 
usual definition of "racist", at least as we understand it today.  
Moller wanted to send his child to an all-white school but was 
turned away.  The discrimination was not by appearance because the 
child in question was by all appearances "white" nor 
by "association" because Moller lived and associated only with 
whites but because of a smidgen of "african" blood (going back 
several generations).

Same with the Indian Act of Canada (which has been formally 
adjudicated by Canadian courts as "racist").  YOu can have, 
literally, 1/64 Indian blood and be considered an "Indian" (actually 
something one would probably WANT to have because there are nice 
benefits to it!) or, conversely, be 7/8ths pure "Indian" blood and 
NOT be classified as Indian.

Same process happens with Canada's minority language of education 
laws.  PUre racism.




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