{"id":6253,"date":"2010-11-08T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6253"},"modified":"2010-11-08T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:49:36","slug":"qotd-melticulturalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/qotd-melticulturalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Melticulturalism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>So, the majority of Canadians are in favour of a system that seeks to respect and preserve cultural differences, just as long as people from other cultures don\u2019t actually preserve those differences but assimilate into Canadian society. Call it melticulturalism<sup>1<\/sup>: You can be as different as you want, just as long as you act like everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>How Canadian can you get?<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> h\/t to Tasha Kheiriddin for \u201cmelticulturalism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly McParland, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/11\/08\/kelly-mcparland-canadians-overwhelmingly-favour-melticulturalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Canadians overwhelmingly favour melticulturalism&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2010-11-08<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the majority of Canadians are in favour of a system that seeks to respect and preserve cultural differences, just as long as people from other cultures don\u2019t actually preserve those differences but assimilate into Canadian society. Call it melticulturalism1: You can be as different as you want, just as long as you act like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57,41],"tags":[262,554],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-culture","tag-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1CR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6255,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}