So, I am the only one thinking things are going downhill in Europe?

[Megas Methuselah]

@MegasMatuselah, multiculturalism working in Canada? That's funny, coming from someone who complains about the evil imperialistic racist canadian state every second post. From someone who lives in a country where natives are dying because of alcoholism and poverty and where different ethnicities never deal with eachothers, except when it comes to fighting at the exit of a club on a saturday night. Canada was never a nation (in the sociological meaning) to begin with, your multiculturalist model isn't working and never did, hence why Québecers rightfully reject it. Your country have failed when it came to minorities, even more so than the US, and I'm sad to see that France is slowly heading the same way: a giant place where people of different skin colors live in different neighborhood, hate eachother or at best try to ignore eachothers. That's not what a country is supposed to be.

1) Today's common Indigenous issues are largely the effects of Canada's colonial past. To attribute those intergenerational problems to multiculturalism is merely a lack of understanding and show of ignorance on your part and, quite frankly, leaves me insulted.

2) This leaves me insulted because it is this exact celebration of our multiculturalism that is truly begginning to help my people stand up. The gradual re-embracement (or simply embracement) of our treaty rights has, together with social policies and the condemnation of racism, certainly allowed me to advance.

3) Different ethnicities don't have to deal with each other? Where in the hell did you get that from?

4) I never said Canada was a nation and, in fact, have always claimed it was multinational. Contemporary political scientists have been writing about this lately, saying that we must accept the fact that Canada is not only a multicultural country, but a multinational one, as well. This is true in regards to both the First Nations and your own francophone Quebec, as well.

5) Yes, Canada has "failed" with minorities, and is continuing to do so. That's why it's still an ongoing struggle. But with every new generation, more advancement will be made. In my own case, this is particularly true as more and more younger generations of Aboriginal people are finishing advanced education to move into higher employment. Hopefully, as older generations die off, their spite and hatred will go with them.

6) I deny Canada is wholly a segregrated place, though it certainly once was. That aside, who are you to dictate "... what a country is supposed to be" and what it is not be? Has not the study of history proven that people have always been in conflict throughout our existence as a species? Yet my personal life has proven that we can get along. It is a journey to get rid of ancestral prejudices, true, but when I can flirt with a Muslim girl, become close friends with a black, easily interact with whites on a daily basis without feeling the desire to cut them up, begin friendships with people varying from Thai to German, and indeed, even witness first-hand ethnic inter-marriage, then I surely like to believe humanity has a higher destiny than the squabbles you constantly complain about. This sounds hypocritical? Well, let's imagine I'm not the same person my little internet personage makes me out to be. Wouldn't that be nice?