{"id":2976,"date":"2019-06-30T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T23:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2019-06-30T19:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T23:42:44","slug":"canada-day-is-not-a-celebration-of-canada-but-a-celebration-of-rootless-cosmopolitanism-and-the-destruction-of-our-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2976","title":{"rendered":"Canada Day is not a celebration of Canada, but a celebration of rootless cosmopolitanism and the destruction of our heritage."},"content":{"rendered":"
Canada Day is not a celebration of Canada, but a celebration of rootless cosmopolitanism and the destruction of our heritage<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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It is a scene duplicated across Canada. The weather is sunny\u00a0and hot, and the expansive field is dense with people clapping, cheering and singing to the performers on stage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Giant speakers broadcast music at ear-splitting decibels.\u00a0The music originally emanated from other continents and other nations : Reggae, rap, Andean, rock and roll—you name it.<\/div>\n
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Actually, Canada Day is a misnomer . It’s more like Dis-United Nations Day. We are encouraged to celebrate every culture but our own because, well, we don’t have a culture, do we? Or so we are told by Trudeau. Yet at the same time we are told that diversity is our culture. That is, if we have a culture, it is just a mosaic of imported cultures. Apart from artistic aboriginal presentations, Canada Day is largely the expression of differences not of our own making. Differences which allegedly unite us.\u00a0Right?<\/div>\n
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Not so fast ! The official narrative that there is \u2018unity in diversity\u2019 has been contradicted by a myriad of studies kick-started by Harvard\u2019s Robert Putnam whose foundational study appeared nearly two decades ago.\u00a0The consensus of the studies is that \u201cdiversity\u201d diminishes civic trust and participation, a consequence that among other things, makes electors less willing to vote for redistributive policies.\u00a0People are hesitant to share their wealth with people who are very much unlike themselves.\u00a0The welfare state was originally constructed by ethnically homogeneous societies, but in a multi-ethnic environment, this project is rendered more difficult.\u00a0The late Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Milton Friedman once maintained that a nation can have mass immigration\u00a0or\u00a0a welfare state, but not both. By the same token, a good case can also be made that, ultimately, multi-ethnic fragmentation and the welfare state are mutually exclusive.<\/div>\n
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Moreover, there is a clear trend among large cities in Europe and North American of voluntary re-segregation.\u00a0Ethnic minorities are voluntarily clustering in urban pockets– a conspicuous corroboration of Putnam\u2019s observation that people of all ethnicities prefer to, in his words, \u201cbowl alone\u201d and “hunker down”.\u00a0Determined efforts to \u201cintegrate\u201d fail because they run counter to human nature.\u00a0As moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt noted, we evolved as a species of tribes, \u201c\u2026\u00a0tribalism allowed us to create large societies and to come together in order to compete with others. That brought us out of the jungle and out of small groups.\u201d\u00a0At some level, then, tribalism is baked into most people’s mental wiring . According to Haidt, \u201cThis is just a basic aspect of human social cognition.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Successful integration is conditional on modest immigration levels. But in a nation with the highest or second highest per capita immigration intake in the world, integration seems less likely, particularly when 90% of immigrants are drawn from \u201cnon traditional sources\u201d, and half of the population of the cites that receive them are themselves foreign-born residents. At this rate of demographic change, mass immigration and multiculturalism become a combustible mix. The notion that \u201ce pluribus unum\u201d will be the end result of this transformation is both fanciful and intellectually dishonest.<\/div>\n
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The irony is that while the core culture of host countries is being eviscerated in the name of diversity, global mass migration on an epic scale has done much to homogenize global culture. The diversity of sovereign nations is giving way to a borderless world of sameness. For some this is a blessing, but for others it is a nightmare, and the gap between them is widening.\u00a0It is a schism that has overshadowed the traditional Left\/Right polarity—-the \u201cGreat Divide\u201d as Australian academic Katherine Betts termed it twenty years ago– is no longer about Left vs. Right but about globalists vs. nationalists. For Betts the battle was between the \u201cNew Class\u201d, a coalition of the intelligentsia, mainstream media and the growth lobby,\u00a0and the subordinate class of ordinary people who have little say in the construction of immigration policy.<\/div>\n
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Other analysts have tendered similar characterizations. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt describes the division as one between those who feel \u2018rooted\u2019 in their town, community and nation and those, on the other hand, who are less parochial and more averse to nation states and borders. I prefer British writer David Goodhart\u2019s labels. As he portrays it, the new civil war pits the \u201cSomewheres\u201d against the \u201cAnywheres\u201d.\u00a0The former are rooted, nationalist and traditional, and understandably resentful of being on the receiving end of an immigration policy designed to displace them and imposed without their input or consent.\u00a0The latter\u00b8 the Anywheres,\u00a0are more \u2018educated\u2019,\u00a0progressive and mobile, and are apt to look upon Somewheres as ignorant, stupid and nostalgic for a past that never was nor can be again.\u00a0It is a kind of condescension which ordinary working people in the West have come to expect from those who claim to \u2018know better\u2019.<\/div>\n
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Sadly, the “Anywheres”, these pretentious self-proclaimed sophisticates who consider themselves\u00a0\u2018citizens of the world\u2019, have commandeered the classrooms, editorial rooms, boardrooms and cabinet rooms of the nation. It is their vision of Canada, not ours, which has been thrust upon us. It is a vision that finds full expression in the manner in which \u201cCanada\u201d Day is celebrated and embraced by an entire generation of indoctrinated college graduates amply represented in the festivities. These ‘ Millenials’ know little of what Canada once was, or how it came to be,\u00a0or that it was shaped by our two French and English founding peoples, their religion and values.\u00a0They do not understand that a citizen of \u201canywhere\u201d is a citizen of “no where”. The “anywheres” are really gypsies cut loose from the heritage and moral moorings of their ancestors who settled and built this exemplary nation.<\/div>\n
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Canada Day is not a celebration of Canada, but a celebration of rootless cosmopolitanism and the destruction of our heritage.<\/div>\n
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Tim Murray<\/div>\n
June 29, 2019<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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