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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
well, bigot, to start off we don't have a melting pot in canada. That is what our american friends do.
In Canada, we have a mosaic. each person brings their diversity, adds to the mosaic, and the big picture gets better.
To call diversity a cesspool is absolutely disgusting. Diversity makes us stronger. Alberta will not be able to sustain itself by 2012 if we do not increase our population and Canada does not have enough of a skilled worker population to make such migration possible. We have to look outside of our borders to do it. People like you, or "cesspoolers" make it harder for the overwhelmingly legitimate foreign workers to come into Alberta an contribute. Instead, the cesspoolers propogate antiquated myth and reputations spending their entire time trying to convince themselves that their prejudices are indeed accurate.
abosolutely brutal.
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I think you have the wrong idea of what is being said. Regardless of whether empty and blanket words like melting pot or mosaic are applied, the fact is that we have a lot of diversity in people in Calgary and yet it's a city that feels very isolated from itself and people from each other. There is not enough interaction, culture, arts, or just things that bring people together in large numbers or places of vibrant activity or entertainment. That's why it's a "social cesspool".
Look at a city like Montreal, live there for a few months and the difference will knock your socks off. In the summer, every day of the week, on the weekends, etc. there are always amazing festivals, huge gatherings, parties, live music, performances, dance parties, or even just thousands of people getting together in a big public park to play with bongos.