Re: RE: Canadian Culture
Twila said:
Canada should be standing up to our traditions, those being the traditions of our founders - the British.
Are we only going to go that far? What about the Natives. Can they have their traditions upheld as part of Canadian culture? (truely asking, not meant to be inflammatory)
Could multiculturalism not be considered a form of evolution? The strongest culture survives and the weakest fades away?
I had been thinking about that one as I was uncertain. On the one hand the 'natives' are a conquered people but on the other hand this is originally their land. I have made a decision.
I would suggest the natives absolutely be allowed to keep their traditions as I consider them to be part of Canadian history. They were allies many times to my British ancestors and as such are worthy of keeping their culture. They did assist us in our war against the belligerent Americans who sought to aid Canada to their territory. It is my belief that without native assistance we would not have defeated the Americans as easily as we did. In summation I say yes, let them keep their culture as long as they do not keep making continually ridiculous demands as they did in Caledonia and Oka. Enough of that crap. We will be glad to talk with you but do not hold our country hostage.
Multiculturalism? A form of evolution? Never. Look no further than the former Yugoslavia. All those different ethnic groups living in peace. That was one truly multicultural nation. There is one major catch though. They were kept at peace through force. Communist aggression made certain Serbs did not go around killing Muslims and vice versa. Tito had ruled that state with a mailed fist. As we have no intention of ruling that way here multiculturalism would never work.
It is your belief under multiculturalism only the strong would survive. That is incorrect in a nation run the way Canada is. Original Canadians (whites of British and French descent) have given the non-white groups carte-blanche to grow as they wish. As a result their birth rates are greater than our own. Their numbers are climbing at alarming rates. They have a government bent on given them preferential treatment when it comes to jobs (see the recent RCMP drive for new recruits from the Southeast Asian community by playing baseball games with them etc. all at the expense of the white community). I had a friend who had a neighbour in the RCMP. He told the story of how many possible recruits were asked to complete written test and to complete physicals. Every single black male failed every test. Every single Chinese person failed. They were still admitted. The recruitment criteria for the RCMP was changed to accomodate the shorter Chinese people. It used to be that you had better be over 6' tall. This criteria was stricken from the list. Now we have Chinese RCMP officers who can barely reach 5'3". Would you want someone like that to come save you from a robbery? My friend's neighbour also told of being forced by the federal government to toss into the garbage
all applications from white people at his precinct. All of them! Why? They were on a hiring drive to hire members from visible minorities.
Due to the aforementioned happenstances how are we of British descent expected to 'survive' as part of your survival of the fittest scenario when those visible minorities are given so many advantages?