Canada through the 70's and 80's, maybe longer, placed immigrants from non-Anglo/French sources into towns and cities scattered throughout their land and discouraged the construction of "ghettos" of the various nationalities and cultures.
Sure, Toronto has a China Town, but the main impetus was absorption and 'Canadianisation" and it seemed to work, then. Not sure now how it's perceived. thanks--mel ----- Original Message ----- From: "X Acto" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:13 AM Subject: Re: [MD] Multiculturalism scam Hello Platt, An interesting arguement indeed. "multiculturalism" began with the pragmatist movement tending to use the term "pluralism" which Pirsig clearly advocates but, as you have mentioned he also advocates a universal judgement method which, in effect, advocates SOM by valueing what we culturaly define as "intellectual" and measuring by it. A Fly in the MoQ soup. If we follow that the best intellectual patterns serve society and thrive with individual expression, we find that the highest intellectual patterns are that of pluralism otherwise it oppresses the individual. By allowing immigration and forcing them to assimilate to one cultural standard you in fact are stiffling the individual. What we have to keep in mind is that the laws of a nation or state or province is the law of that land, that all who live there must abide. Passing moral judgements on differing cultures seems to be another story altogether. A quote from wiki about multi culturalism: "Canadian governments have argued that the policy promotes the national interest by breaking down social and cultural barriers. Many believe that rather than weakening the national character, or presenting a slippery slope whereby all groups may appeal for separate treatment based on every imaginable difference, the policy is viewed as strengthening national identity by binding citizens to a single moral community." It is the law defined by "We the people" which makes it work. -Ron ________________________________ From: Platt Holden <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:40:48 AM Subject: [MD] Multiculturalism scam Hi All: It appears that Europe is waking up from its love affair with the idea of multiculturism whereby all cultures are considered equally moral. Tolerance as the highest of virtues is now being recognized as detrimental to the preservation of social values. From the "International Herald Tribune," Dec. 29: "Two weeks ago, the country´s biggest left-wing political grouping, the Labor Party, which was responsible for integration as a member of the coalition government led by Christian Democrats, issued a position paper call for the end of the failed mode of Dutch `tolerance.´ "It came at the same time Nicolas Sarkozy was making a case in France for greater opportunities for minorities that also contained an admission that the French notion of equality `doesn´t work any more.´" The full article can be found at: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/29/europe/politicus.php Of course, those who believe in the principles of the MOQ saw long ago that multiculturism as preached by left-wing academic elites was a scam: "Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life. A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not. It is immoral to speak against a people because of the color of their skin, or any other genetic characteristic because these are not changeable and don't matter anyway. But it is not immoral to speak against a person because of his cultural characteristics if those cultural characteristics are immoral. These are changeable and they do matter." (Lila, 24) Someday the light will shine. Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
