POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Why is the Globe even printing stupid pieces like this?
All thinking people know what happened here, and since when
are the words of a genuine madman worth quoting?
Are you planning to do a series, perhaps including quotes
from Robert Picton on pig farming and picking up girls?
Stupid and contemptible.
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"The question is
not whether multiculturalism is good or bad; that is too simple and too extreme
an idea to debate."
Yes, but what people do not seem to understand is that in a
globalized world, it is simply unavoidable.
Movements, across the globe, of resources and people - what
economists call factors of production - naturally follow the huge new patterns
of world trade in goods and services.
And it is not the first time people have experienced such
changes.
Take any old state you care to in Europe, and you will find
a complex and rather messy history in these matters.
Britain is a perfect example. Celtic people were overrun by
Latin Romans. Latter the descendants of the Romans were overrun by Germanic
Anglo-Saxons. The Anglo-Saxons in turn experienced the invasions of the
Norsemen. Still later, the French Normans conquered and ruled. There were still
more disturbances but the facts are clear.
Modern British people, despite our mental image of them as
fixed group, are actually a complex hybrid created over centuries of turmoil.
Globalization only adds speed to what has been going for
centuries.
Indeed, these very real forces in the world point to the
ultimate absurdity of trying to maintain any country according to a definition
of ethnicity or religion.
