XPost: soc.men, can.politics   
   From: hgraw@telus.net   
      
   >"PolishKnight"  wrote in message   
   >news:marek1965-EE123B.23435023082009@news.giganews.com...   
      
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   >PK wrote:   
   > Never, Heidi, oppose a law based upon it's simple impracticality.  That   
   > is the last thing to be considered politically when drafting them up!   
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   PK, it's not that I'm opposed to these non-discrimination hiring rules.   
   I'm all for them.  Yet, I have to accept that small private businesses   
   will sometimes ignore these rules and they will hire according to   
   their own racial preferences.  That's just the way it is.   
      
   Yet, while this is happening, we also have to bear in mind that   
   any and all races and ethnics groups within Canada and the US   
   have a right to set up shop.  So, while an individual small business   
   may be of one kind, you will find small businesses of another kind   
   and on the whole they make up a multi-cultural mosaic of small   
   businesses.  And I believe this is perfectly fine!  In cases like these   
   I would only intervene if a certain race of people, or ethnic group were   
   prevented from setting up shop in the first place.   
      
   Now, we also have to consider "freedom of association."  If you   
   want one club for one set of folks, and another exists for another   
   kind, even if each club is of a different kind, then on the whole they, too,   
   create that multicultural experience. Most clubs will also have   
   special events where they invite others from different groups to   
   come help celebrate a truly multi-culural event.  In these cases if   
   a club were refused to be allowed based on their race or ethnicity,   
   they I would consider that a breech of the right to association.   
      
   I think people of one kind or another should be allowed to have   
   their own respective clubs in which they can study, develop and   
   preserve their own cultural heritage which they then can share via   
   a multicultural festival where they can show off the best they have   
   to offer...be that through dance, song, stories, food and sharing   
   of information.   
      
   Personally, I'd find life extremely boring if we were all the same.   
   I live in a world of colour,  it's not black or white, but full of   
   colour...from palest pink, to various shades of browns, reds   
   yellows and blacks.  Hey, one day we may even meet little   
   green men that would add to our mosaic.  ;-)   
      
   My country is not a melting pot, but rather a fresh, lively   
   and healty tossed salad!  If given the choice between   
   that blah gruel vs. a fresh tossed salad...I'd take that salad   
   any day!  ;-)   
      
   Take care,   
   Heidi   
      
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