Time to Dump Multiculturalism

[Rambler Man]

Woohoo! We're a multi-cultural society! Aren't we special?

Ohh wait a minute...we really aren't. There's a bunch of other countries in the world that are full of immigrants and people with ancestors from other countries.

We aren't the first to become a mulit-cultural society either. Switzerland has been made up French, Italian, and German descended citizens for hundreds of years and they have got along fine while respecting each others differences. We are just the first country to brag about it.

As far as I can tell from what I have seen in my travels is that immigrants in countries tend to band together naturally and form communities that preserve their respective cultures without government throwing bags of money away to promote it.

For an example of a country with tremendous diversity which does nothing to promote multi-cuturalism just look at the the USA. You'll see orthodox jews and Rastafarian Jamicans in New York City. Their China towns are thriving. Mexican culture grows more prevalent by the day. What's the point of spending a bunch of government money on something that occurs naturally?

Same thing with bilingualism. I spent a fair amount of time in California and its fair to say the place is bilingual. In response to a growing hispanic community, the businesses, and services there offer both english and spanish to accommodate.

Much better then spending billions offering french and english across Canada, when only 2 provinces merit such a thing, and the rest have french populations under 5% of the population.

Its time for Canadians to quit pretending that our multiculturalism is something special and unique to Canada. Its not. Lets move on.