| O-D-C said: No it works, just look at Canada, multiculturalism at its best. |
http://www.thestar.com/specialsections/article/830516--kelly-i-love-this-wretched-place
This ran on Canada day in the paper describing multiculturalism and is pretty much bang on why it works in Canada.
This part in perticular...
"I tell them there are two types of Canadians — “mungies” and the rest of us.
Mungies (short for “mungie cakes” — persons with no real ethnic identity) are the “real” Canadians who are defined by their ability to skate. Doesn’t matter if you got here yesterday. If you skate, you are a mungie.
Mungies fly flags at their cottages. If they don’t own a cottage, they buy a flag anyway and pack it away in anticipation of the day when they will own a cottage. They are secretly uncomfortable about gay marriage and downtown injection sites. Until someone from somewhere else tells them they hate those things. That sort of close-mindedness offends your average mungie.
Then there’s everyone else. When we were kids we called them “FOBs” — though you didn’t necessarily need to be fresh off the boat to be one. You just had to act like you were. We were terribly jealous of them. They had access to greater stores of fun and tradition."
