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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
You still haven't told me what exactly it is that you want them to sacrifice. What parts of their culture do you want them to give up? Their religion? Cultural beliefs? How exactly do you want them to assimilate?
I think hockey is a bad example since it is a game of physical strength and strategic systems which require people to all be in lock-step and someone going out and doing their own thing is frowned upon. For a society to be enriched and to grow you NEED differences, people should be exposed to new beliefs and ideologies and new ways of thinking about things and experiencing the different cultures of the world. I don't think we should be giving up our differences, but rather celebrating them.
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Hockey was a simplistic example. Though you do need differences to be successful. Not every can be a sniper.
That said the
bold part is exactly right. And the part that I want people who arrive in Canada to sacrifice is the belief that they can avoid that and view that as unnecessary. Multiculturalism protects those people who do not want to "do this" from doing it. They are encouraged to keep on being different/separate/uninfluenced by others.