Talk about obnoxious...

[Occhidiangela]

Thanks for all that you did say, Occhi.  :)    Other perspectives are always a Good Thing™ to hear, even if I don't agree with them.   :P

And, speaking of other perspectives, can we briefly talk about another (apparently) knee-jerk assumption you have?  

You said: 
From a Canuck viewpoint, the one does not necessarily follow the other.   Our Powers That Be have, for quite some time, been pursuing a policy of cultural mosaic, not assimilation.   The jury is still out, IMO, as to the benefits of this approach, but it is by no means all negative or a sign of disunion on other issues.
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I have been saying the following for years: multicuturalism was the demise of the

Roman
Austrian
Russian
Ottoman

Empires.

It may be the core of the demise of the American Empire/hegemony as well.

Occhi