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Quora seems to have been on a multicultural jag the last few day. I am just as ethnocultural as any Canadian could be, but I don't see the big deal. I am not interested in forcing bagels, corn beef, blintzes or even falafel down the throats of “old stock” Canadians. I don't even want to share my nastier Yiddish words with you. They are mine, mine, mine!But, say for the sake of argument, it is important. Just what does “forced” mean? Also, who gets to decide what “discriminative” is? (OK, in Canada it is mostly the Old Stockers, no matter how much us ethnics whine.)I believe that, unless one defines “force” as only the police and the army pointing guns at you, and reminding you that resistance is futile, our easy going Canada (It's a facade, non-Canadians. We put out that image because we are desperate for adulation and it really annoys Republicans.) is a good example of very elaborate force procedures. However, we sort of get off the hook because we do not call it assimilation. My response yesterday, to “Why do people believe that immigrants shouldn't have to assimilate?” is completely a propos: Martin Levine's answer to Why do people believe that immigrants shouldn't have to assimilate? .We use nice words, like “learning about Canadian values”, or “helping immigrants adjust, or “resolving ethnocultural tensions, or “enriching our great multicultural mosaic”. Both the federal Government of Canada and the provincial governments have multicultural legislation. In fact a lot of the intent is to tell immigrants and Canadian born ethnos to know their place and mind their manners. We know very well in Canada, an iron fist goes down best when it is covered in a glove.“Cultures”, and “societies” don't make up the iron fist rules. English-speaking Canada has difficulties identifying just what its “culture” (if any) or its “society” is. It is our law makers who say, “This is mandatory. This is what you are going to do, or else.”Long Live Her Majesty The Queen!Or, as Mary Poppins said, “A teaspoon of sugar makes the medicine go down.” Our Quebecois-Canadians may chafe about it a lot, but Canada is a constitutional monarchy. The head of state is the Queen of Canada, currently Her Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth the Second.And, that isn't going anywhere. Adult immigrants who want to get Canadian citizenship have to pass a knowledge test. They need to know about that kindly lady in London, England. And, they pass. And off they go to Citizenship Court for the swear-in, Her Majesty's picture on the wall. It does not at all matter if the United Kingdom colonized your home country and trashed the place. You will grin and bear it.And you had best obey all the laws that get made up in the Canadian House of Commons, which do not take effect until they get “royal assent”. The same for the provincial legislatures. It doesn't matter what goes on in your country. You will do it our way.Ride Herd On ThemThat is a Canadian tradition, although nowadays, except maybe in Quebec, we do it in more of a politically correct way. Quebec has largely rejected multiculturalism. They believe in “interculturalism”. This means that, yes, your cultural heritage is amusing, and now, do it our way, or else! Currently the provincial government is busy banning all that non “Vrai Souche” (real roots) headgear, at least for government jobs, and you are not going to wear a burka either.Turbans and hijabs do not get us Anglo Canadians jumping up and down all that high. (Except maybe in Alberta and a few other regressive places.) So, what's wrong with us?Nothing, because the best way to suppress immigrant and ethnic cultures is to vigorously apply the same rules that apply to everybody else. Canada is far off being short on rules. The rules are not just additions to the Criminal Code of Canada. (The CCC doesn't have to say, “Don't you dare speak that language!”, or, “wear that ridiculous outfit on the street or we will nail you!” It does however say, try having more than one wife, and you are off to do time in the pen.)Immigrants and their Canadian-born offspring need some physical, legal and social space to really be different. In Canada they do not get it.In another Answer I described what my Jewish Winnipeg would have been like if we had serious multicultural rights. We could have had our own self-inflicted ghetto, with borders, no gentile gets in unless they need to fix something, Yiddish as the sole official language, Friday night attendance at a suitably mandatory Orthodox Synagogue (You would get the Rabbi to sign your attendance card.) Kosher food only, Halachic law (Our less terrifying equivalent of Sharia) and a woman's place is in the home and no speaking up, unless they are talking about baby clothes and recipes. (Whoops, sorry, I am waxing nostalgic.) Our schools don't use the Manitoba curriculum, our teachers are all really religious, and if I want to put up a bagel bakery and a garment factory right in the middle of a residential block, the City of Winnipeg can go stuff its bylaws. Mercifully, the real, British Manitobans weren't having any. (Than you, Her Majesty the Queen.) City Hall wasn't that heavy with Jewish alderman (We had one really good guy, but he was an official Communist.) Nor, for sure, were there a whole bunch of Jewish members of the Manitoba Provincial Legislature. Our Judaeo-Manitoban influence was teensy. They said, and we did.But, that was so long ago, in the 1950's. It is the year 2019. Canada has vanished into the Multicultural Twilight Zone. Surely those days of “Do it our way!” are long gone? No, not at all. As I have said in various Answers, the Anglo-Canadian cultural cultural and social agenda, to the extent you can speak of one, (There isn't any legislature of the English-speaking Canadians.) has moved on, but, if anything, for us old ethnics, it is even more assertive. Political correctness does not allow for talking with your hands or making comments about a woman's beauty. You will keep your damn opinions about faygelehs to yourself. And, if anything, those bylaws, the child welfare authorities, business licencers and zoners, are even stricter still.So as an example, you think you can operate a hookah lounge in Canada's national capital? The hell you will. The following is from the Ottawa Citizen and is their property: “Ottawa establishment fined $76,250 for hookah use”, Ottawa establishment fined $76,250 for hookah use. Call your establishment the the Sinbad Restaurant & Café Inc or Al Mirage, but you aren't immune from anything.You would like to build your place of worship wherever you like? No, you won't. (In most Canadian cities there isn't very much land zoned to allow a place of worship, and the churches have most of it sewn up.) You want your private ethnic school to teach only the curriculum from your home country? Absolutely not. If you are in Winnipeg, your school is going to teach this: Education and Training . It has to get taught in English or French. You want your ideas about what a teacher ought to be, to prevail? No, your teachers have to be this: Professional CertificationBut, your culture has different ideas about how to discipline your teenage daughters? That's real tough. You're in Calgary now. Get physical and these guys will take your kids away: How child intervention works.In Quebec they get a little tougher. You want to put up your business sign up in your language only? Oh no, you won't. Here are the language police: Office québécois de la langue française - Wikipedia. Police, really? Yes. French in the biggest letters only, your ethnocultural language in small letters. Try to mess around with that, and they will get you.And the Influencers TooYes, we like our National Hockey League on TV. Yes, we love our American TV shows. Some of us really get into the BBC's “Coronation Street”. However, British is not ethnic. Our newscasts are about what Canadian markets want to hear about. The events in your country are not significant to us. If you want to hear your own news, pay for a satellite dish or an ethnocultural channel on the cable.Your religious laws get official? Forget about it. You want self-government? No. You want your religion's holidays to be public? No, the only public religious holiday are Christian ones. And your employer does not have to give you paid leave for your holiday.Even Heavier Measures?If absolutely disappearing into the Canadian mass is what “assimilation” means, I don't think that even the old stockers and the vrai soucheniks really want it. Officially, Canada is no melting pot. Absorb these others too completely, and their influence could change our cultures. Anyhow, a Canadian has a right to be a Scottish person, a proud descendant of England, or a pure descendant of settlers who came here a long time ago from northern France.Despite Canada's high immigration rates, there isn't all that much statistical data about the finer points of cultural integration. There are good statistics about things like employment and income success, and language usage, but when does that immigrant accept feminism and do enough beer drinking in sports bars? Particularly, our statistical knowledge about the Canadian-born generations isn't that much.So, before you consider a real, forced crackdown, you might want to have some idea of where you need to put our Canadian boot. If the Canadian mainstream really isn't satisfied and can get our legislators prodded enough, there are various things that one can do, although the human rights battles would kick in. Like:-Canadian-born clergy only. The same for all teachers.-Compulsory”Canadianization” classes for children who can't pass a knowledge and comportment test.-Do it Danish-style. You haven't taught your kids how to adjust? The child welfare authorities watch you. They test you, the parents. If they feel you are not up to it, or are recalcitrant, they take your kids away.-Canada used to have immigration visas that were provisional, according to terms and conditions. Some of them set where you had to live. So, you are coming to Canada? No, you do not get to live in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. Enjoy your life in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Rimouski, Quebec or Bathurst, New Brunswick. Let's have a chat five years later, and see if we should lift the conditions and make you permanent here. But, your kids don't speak French or English? Your wife does not know a thing about women's' rights in Canada and the history of Canadian feminism? Maybe it would be better if you just went home.You Need Legal ImmigrantsCanada has been lucky in that it doesn't tend to experience massive waves of undocumented immigrants. (Although aliens fleeing the USA are making some of us sweat.) You can not force assimilation on people you don't know about.All of this Canadian repression operates in a country with a really good human rights record. Canada has been applying the fist in the glove for a very long time now. Everybody in Canada gets forced all kinds of ways. If some of our immigrants don't like it, lefty-lib Canada made a decision long ago. That is, well, that is too bad! What is to stop other countries from doing the same?Martin Levine