Make Canada Great Again!

[SharperDingaan]

Everywhere in the world there is muzzling of the population - it's just matter of degree.

 

Canada's Mountie isn't the 6'2" white male that he was 60 years ago - today he/she is a lot shorter, and wears a variety of head dress; all of it good. It would not have happened were it possible to muzzle the population to any great degree, and simply recognizes what Canada is - multicultural. The wedge issue is fear of change.

 

There are of course thorns. Integration and treatment of the native populations being very high on the list.

So long as there is 'us and them', we give the racism a place to fester - and keep our prisons full.     

 

SD

 

[scorpioncapital]

There is always us and them. Don't you find it a bit strange that there are only a few Western countries that have this operating structure? Try being non-Chinese in China, or Indian in Russia. North America is young, but I don't think around the world multiculturalism is going to be accepted in any large degree. Some even question that it works at all. What happened when Americans allowed military ships to sail in international water near American borders? Not much.. What happened when American ships tried to sail in 'international waters' near other countries, like China? Well, they just said we don't understand this concept of international waters :) Same with trade, immigration. It's not exactly a 1:1 exchange in both directions. I think that's what Trump was trying to rectify but personally I think it's the language barrier. Only English speaking countries really have these dynamics.

 

[LC]

Fear and greed...are the recipe for some really bad decisions. I'm happy for you guys up north, hopefully you can continue to keep the emotions at bay.

[SharperDingaan]

The youth is a very good point - as is the amount of space, and the dynamics of local conditions.

Pretty hard to 'feel big' up north, when the Northern Lights are over your head, & there may well be more polar bears and cariboo walking around than there are people. You're just happy to have someone else to talk you - & more bodies between you and the bears!

 

If you were born in Western Europe between the mid 50's and 60's (age 60-70 today) - you benefited almost your entire working life, from the mass rebuilding of infrastructure and population following the end of WWII. Yet if you were born in the same place just 30 years later in 1985 (age 32 today), you've had to fight hard for diminishing scraps pretty much your entire working life. Hardly surprising that multi-culturalism doesn't work in a great many places.

 

The good news is that theoretically you can migrate elsewhere for a better life.

The bad news is that theory isn't practice, and it has seldom ever been different.

 

SD