Brexit: The Brits have cried out!
BREXIT: THE BRITS HAVE CRIED OUT!
The Brits have cried out as loud as they can, and the rest of the world needs to take notice.
Their rejection of the EU was not an economic statement. It was not a rejection of freedom to travel and work. It was a rejection of the cult of “political correctness”.
Political correctness has been a sinister thread that has grown into a rope of bondage throughout the western democracies. It has produced thousands of laws and regulations in an effort to suppress bigotry and racism in Britain and around the world. But, it doesn’t work.
It was the individuals and families that recorded their votes, not homogeneous self-serving, powerful political, financial or economic groups or institutions that voted. Even the biased and prejudicial media didn’t vote. It was the heart of the people who voted.
They voted for their British heritage and culture and values.
The threat of further cultural diversity and eventual assimilation is what led the people to reject assimilation with Europe and its polyglot of languages, cultures, crises and chaos. Noble values of integration and living in harmony with foreign cultures sounded great after WWII, but the post war generations are still struggling for security of family finances, struggling for decent homes, struggling for good educations, struggling against imported epidemics and diseases and struggling to maintain their identities. In fact, looking out their windows the majority felt they had become “strangers in a strange land”. This is why Brexin became Brexit.
One need not look overseas to see that even with possibly greater tolerance, other nations’ founding cultures are similarly feeling threatened by the vast migrations taking place at this time. History is full of horrific stories of people forced out of their homelands by war, only to be feared by the people who took them in. Many of these fears are based upon threats to family jobs and incomes. Some are fears of families marrying into each other. Some are fears of perceived religious values. People can not seem to cope with change that threatens their culture. This is why nationhood has been such a powerful force around this world that embodies thousands of cultures.
Perhaps the Arabian Wars of this time appear to others as a religious battle between Sunni and Shia, but this is merely a convenient categorization. In fact, these wars are more to do with tribal cultural heritage and control over local economies. They represent the frustrations of communities being threatened by warlords, autocrats, monarchs and fanatical religious bigots. This is the reality that creates the millions of refugees.
These and millions of other refugees have been escaping to Britain and other nations for 35 years, hence the “political correctness” laws to protect them from indigenous cultures, beliefs and values. The Brits (along with many other nations) have had enough cultural dilution.
In Canada, especially in the large cities, cultural integration has received enormous lip service in the halls of government and the media, but it hasn’t taken hold in the rural towns. Even within city communities, cultural integration has not occurred. In fact, Toronto is about as multi-cultural as Tehran.
Toronto does not have a significant number of people who can speak several languages and easily move throughout the hundreds of cultures that live here. We are not a multi-cultural people. We are mainly mono-cultural people that have learned to work amongst people from all cultural heritages. Our cultural centric neighbourhoods speak plainly the truth of this.
This reality of family and community mono-culturalism works here and in many large cities around the world. But as growing new cultures push old cultures out of areas of the city, the displaced cultures begin to acquire all sorts of fears and seek ways to defend themselves and protect what their culture has created over the previous generations. We see these trends spreading all over North America.
The Brits have cried out to the world as they perceive their culture is sinking in quicksand.
The world is still a big place. There is room for thousands of distinct cultures. “Political correctness” will not stop the diminishment of cultural imperatives unless governments (especially the democracies) entrench their heritage cultural values within their constitutions.
Canadian respect for other cultures is why people have come here. This is a core value of Canadians. But we also have many other intrinsic values that need to be protected and cherished from our 9000 year history of populating and living in this country. New cultures should be ready to accept our positive heritage and values so that they can enjoy living in harmony with all of us. We must not be forced to accept values that conflict with our heritage.
Migrants need to understand that their culture has different foundations than Canada’s. They must accept and adapt to our foundations if they wish to raise their families here. Anything less will turn them into invaders and thus they will bring strife to us and their families and our nation.
Canada’s constitution is anchored in GOD (of the Judeo-Christian faith). His primary commandment is to love one another. The Canadian spirit is imbued with this love. We must strengthen our Constitution with a Declaration of Canadian Spiritual Heritage, Responsibilities and Values*.
As the cultural riots around the country spread, it may already be too late for Britain (and other countries of Europe) to protect their cultures. But Canada has a brief window of time to establish the parameters of our national culture. We must open our eyes and minds to the values that provide our freedoms and unity throughout our thousand sub-cultures. We all share a common Canadian spirit and what better time to enshrine it than our 150th birthday next year?
Jim Reid CFP Founder: Canadian Federalist Party (Virtual)
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