Correcting the Fallacies of Multiculturalism

I want to make the case that the current-day multiculturalism that we’re seeing around isn’t doing as great as it's been promised. I don’t see the point of immigrants and foreigners codling up in clans like penguins when they’re somewhere outside of their native land. This is Canada and coming here means losing some part of what it means to be your country. It doesn’t necessarily mean losing a core identity, but rather sacrificing that part of you that hinders openness and gives way to cross-cultural communication between the two. What I see here is that everyone is confused in a foreign land and doesn’t know how to interact with the other. So they create a mini version of their county. The tyranny of the native to ruin their experience in Canada. 

I’m not here to argue that one should totally discard their identity, I think that’s horrible and I believe the world would lose its pattern and texture if everyone became globalized. However, my argument is that why leave the country in the first place? There are of course tragic external displacements like poverty, war, unstable economies, politics, etc. but still, if someone leaves their country, I don’t believe they have the right to create a closed-off embassy of that country in masses. 

With the introduction of social media, the younger generation has become globalized. The globalization we see, however, is a bad type of assimilation. Taking in values that hinder the possibility of cultural transformation. I don’t wish for that. I want a positive assimilation, one that everyone is willing to learn from each other and open enough that they’re ready to be tested. It’s a risky game and most will have to shed the national pride or the stuff that they’ve been propagandized to believe. This realization won’t disconnect us from our roots, it strengthens it and realizes that everyone has a role to play as different expressions of the collective humanity, or the story of humanity. The pattern to display, the role we play, and the beauty we convey.

 I believe that was initially what the hope for multiculturalism was, but sadly as we observe it’s not true. The old willfully blinded tyrant finds its way around. But there is still hope in all this. As long as a few people like that exist, this potential can be conveyed.