distinctiveness of all cultures. Cf. Neil Bissoondath, Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada (New York: Penguin, 2002 [1994]), p. 37: “Former Quebec premier René Levesque was frankly dismissive of the multicultural game. ‘Multiculturalism, really, is folklore,’ he once said. ‘It is a ‘red herring.’ The notion was devised to obscure ‘the Quebec business,’ to give an impression that we are all ethnics and do not have to worry about special status for Quebec.”
achieve a common goal. Sherif actually observed different endings in two similar experiments, performed earlier: “In the first, the boys ganged up on a common enemy and in the second they ganged up on the experimenters themselves.” Those earlier results corresponded to the two groups uniting against a common enemy—i.e., against another group of boys who just happened to be in the area—and, in the second case, to them turning on the group (of experimenters) in power over them. See PsyBlog, “War, Peace and the Role of Power in Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment” (link).
black Muslim “youths.” See Donald A. Collins, “Camp Of The Saints Comes True In France. Let’s Stop It Happening Here,” on vDare.com, November 8, 2005 (link). See also Steve Sailer, “The Sailer [Immigrant Buyout] Scheme: Well—Why Not?” on vDare.com, November 27, 2005 (link).
recent public policy in Canada.” Robert Fulford, in Globe and Mail, February 19, 1997. Quoted in Martin Loney, The Pursuit of Division: Race, Gender, and Preferential Hiring in Canada (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998), p. 152.
“melting pot.” Yet, see Jeffrey G. Reitz and Raymond Breton, The Illusion of Difference: Realities of Ethnicity in Canada and the United States (Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute, 1994), p. 8: “[C]ontrary to the comfortable assumptions of many Canadians, Americans are, in fact, more likely to favor cultural retention—at least in intent. When examining actual cultural retention, however, as indicated both by subjective measures of ethnic identification and by behavioral measures such as ethnic intermarriages, Reitz and Breton find no systematic differences: assimilation rates and economic opportunities for minorities in the two countries are similar.... [I]n those U.S. cities with the greatest ethnic diversity and the largest experience of recent immigration, many observers of demographic trends have questioned the continued relevance of the metaphor of the melting pot, a development that has paralleled the rise of the multiculturalism ideology in Canada.”
poor workers to rich employers. Ibid., p. 109-10. See also Borjas, op. cit., p. 90-2, 184-5. See also Martin Collacott, “Time to debunk immigration myths: Greater thought should be given to how many people Canada can absorb,” in National Post, January 15, 2000 (link): “Exhaustive studies in the three major receiving countries, the U.S., Canada and Australia, have found that immigration does contribute to the aggregate growth of the economy but that, apart from the transfer of billions of dollars from workers to employers ... it has very little impact on the incomes of current residents.”
killing America. Steve Sailer, “What Feminist Celebrity Eugenics Teaches Us about Immigration Policy,” on vDare.com, 2000 (link): “The 1965 Immigration Act ‘family reunification’ policy gives priority not to immigrants who would most benefit the American public as a whole, but to recent immigrants’ siblings, parents, and adult children. Plus those relatives’ spouses and kids. This is flooding the country with mediocrities admitted only because they are previous immigrants’ brothers-in-law.... Of the 660,000 foreigners the U.S. accepted as permanent residents in 1998 ... only about 14,000 came in exclusively because they were skilled or educated.”
housing prices sharply up, and wages down. Ibid., p. 184: “Because almost half the immigrants come to Toronto, wage compression is felt most keenly in that city. Rapid population growth, fuelled by immigration, has driven up the price of housing.” See also George J. Borjas, Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 96: “[T]here is no immigration surplus if the native wage is not reduced by immigration. In other words, if some workers are not harmed by immigration, many of the benefits that are typically attributed to immigration—higher profits for firms, lower prices for consumers—cease to exist.”
slaughterhouse and construction jobs. See James Fulford, “USA Today—Gone Tomorrow?” on vDare.com, July 25, 2001 (link): “Meatpacking plants employing native-born workers have closed all over the country, and new ones opened employing immigrant labor.” See also Joe Guzzardi, “View From Lodi, CA: Rolling Stone vs. American Workers,” on vDare.com, March 17, 2002 (link): “By working for $11 an hour, a third of the going union rate, and through their willingness to endure conditions no American would tolerate, [Hispanic construction crews] have shut American construction workers out of jobs....”
wealthiest city in the world. Stoffman, op. cit., p. 184. See also Martin Collacott, “Time to debunk immigration myths: Greater thought should be given to how many people Canada can absorb,” in National Post, January 15, 2000 (link).
“black-focused alternative school.” Kristin Rushowy, “More black-focused schools?” in Toronto Star, January 31, 2008 (link). Cf. Michelle Malkin, “Liberal Bigotry And The New School Segregation,” on vDare.com, July 29, 2003 (link).
How’s that for gratitude? Cf. Neil Bissoondath, Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada (New York: Penguin, 2002 [1994]), p. 113-4: When approximately 250 sons of Croatian immigrants left Canada to fight in defense of Croatia, “I wondered which country they would choose if one day obliged to: the land of their parents, for which they had chosen to fight, or the land of their birth, from which they had chosen to depart?” See also Thomas Leung, quoted in Stoffman, op. cit., p. 146: “I am a Canadian citizen today but I am also a Chinese. If there is a war, no matter what, I would go back to China and fight for China.”
founded this country. Cf. Richard Gwyn, quoted in Stoffman, op. cit., p. 127: “It was English-Canadians who explored the greater part of the country, cleared it, and settled it. It was they who contributed the overwhelming majority of men who died fighting in wars for democracy and freedom. It was they who created almost all of the country’s political and legal infrastructure.”