Misunderstanding multiculturalism - Непонимание в межнациональных отношениях

Misunderstanding multiculturalismх ... Multiculturalism simply does not mean what most of its critics think. The original home of multiculturalism is Canada. Canadian philosophers and policy-makers have done most to define and elaborate the concept, since Canada is quintessentially an immigrant society. There, multiculturalism does not mean, and has never meant, different cultural and ethnic groups being left alone to get on with whatever activities they choose. It actually means the opposite. Policy-making in Canada stresses active dialogue between cultural groups, active attempts at creating community cohesion, and the acceptance of overarching Canadian identity. As a leading Canadian writer, Will Kymlicka, puts it, multiculturalism in Canada 'encourages the members of different immigrant groups to interact, to share their cultural heritage, and to participate in common educational, economic, political and legal institutions'. Canada adopted its official 'multicultural policy' in 1971. That policy-orientation has long stressed that language tests, citizenship ceremonies and oaths are axiomatic for immigrants. Such demands are wholly uncontroversial, among the host population as well as migrants: indeed they are widely welcomed as a sign of mutual commitment. Some Canadian-style policies, such as citizenship ceremonies, have been introduced with success in the UK... Anthony Giddens guardian.co.uk, Saturday 14 October 2006 Misunderstanding multiculturalism

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The Feline Diet

Most diets fail because we are still thinking and eating like people. For those us who have never had any success dieting. Well now there is the new Miracle Cat Diet! This diet will also work on humans! Except for cats that eat like people -- such as getting lots of table scraps -- most cats are long and lean (or tiny and petite). the Cat Miracle Diet will help you achieve the same lean, svelte figure. Just follow this diet for one week and you'll find that you not only look and feel better, but you will have a whole new outlook on what constitutes food. Good Luck! DAY ONE Breakfast: Open can of expensive gourmet cat food. Any flavor as long as it cost more the .75 per can -- and place 1/4 cup on your plate. Eat 1 bite of food; look around room disdainfully. Knock the rest on the floor. Stare at the wall for awhile before stalking off into the other room. Lunch: Four blades of grass and one lizard tail. Throw it back up on the cleanest carpet in your house. Dinner: Catch a moth and play with it until it is almost dead. Eat one wing. Leave the rest to die. Bedtime snack: Steal one green bean from your spouse's or partner's plate. Bat it around the floor until it goes under the refrigerator. Steal one small piece of chicken and eat half of it. Leave the other half on the sofa. Throw out the remaining gourmet cat food from the can you opened this morning. DAY TWO Breakfast: Picking up the remaining chicken bite from the sofa. Knock it onto the carpet and bat it under the television set. Chew on the corner of the newspaper as your spouse/partner tries to read it. Lunch: Break into the fresh French bread that you bought as your part of the dinner party on Saturday. Lick the top of it all over. Take one bite out of the middle of the loaf. Afternoon snack: Catch a large beetle and bring it into the house. Play toss and catch with it until it is mushy and half dead. Allow it to escape under the bed. Dinner: Open a fresh can of dark-colored gourmet cat food -- tuna or beef works well. Eat it voraciously. Walk from your kitchen to the edge of the living room rug. Promptly throw up on the rug. Step into it as you leave. Track footprints across the entire room. DAY THREE Breakfast: Drink part of the milk from your spouse's or partner's cereal bowl when no one is looking. Splatter part of it on the closest polished aluminum appliance you can find. Lunch: Catch a small bird and bring it into the house. Play with on top of your down filled comforter. Make sure the bird is seriously injured but not dead before you abandon it for someone else to have to deal with. Dinner: Beg and cry until you are given some ice cream or milk in a bowl of your own. Take three licks/laps and then turn the bowl over on the floor. FINAL DAY Breakfast: Eat 6 bugs, any type, being sure to leave a collection of legs, wings, antennae on the bathroom floor. Drink lots of water. Throw the bugs and all of the water up on your spouse's or partner's pillow. Lunch: Remove the chicken skin from last night's chicken-to-go leftovers your spouse or partner placed in the trash can. Drag the skin across the floor several times. Chew it in a corner and then abandon. Dinner: Open another can of expensive gourmet cat food. Select a flavor that is especially runny, like Chicken and Giblets in Gravy. Lick off all the gravy and leave the actual meat to dry and get hard. The Feline Diet

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Quotations about multiculturalism - Цитаты о межнациональных отношениях

Quotations about multiculturalism It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. (Kofi Annan) Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character. (Julie Bishop) Discrimination is a disease. (Roger Staubach) Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. (Ulrich Beck) And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights. (Carol Bellamy) Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. (Albert Camus) I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. (Arthur Erickson) Quotations about multiculturalism

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A little boy

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What are Politics?" Dad says, "Well son, let me try to explain it this way: #1. I'm the head of the family, so call me The President. #2. Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government. #3. We're here to take care of your needs, so we'll call you the People. #4. The nanny, we'll consider her the Working Class. #5. And your baby brother, we'll call him the Future. "Now, think about that and see if it makes sense." So, the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him. He finds that the baby has severely soiled his diaper. So, the little boy goes to his parent's room and finds his mother sound asleep. Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room. Finding the door locked, he looks in the peephole and finds his father in bed with the Nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed. The next morning, the little boy says to his father, "Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now." The father says, "Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about." The little boy replies, "The President is screwing the Working Class, while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit." A little boy

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Love - What other people say about wonderful feeling - Любовь - Что другие люди говорят о прекрасном чувстве

What other people say about wonderful feeling There are a lot of definitions of love. Love is the poetry of the senses. (Honore de Balzac) Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. (Voltaire) Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. (Peter Ustinov) Love is a game that two can play and both win. (Eva Gabor) Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost) Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. (H. L. Mencken) Love is being stupid together. (Paul Valery) Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. (Leo Buscaglia) Love is the beauty of the soul. (Saint Augustine) What other people say about wonderful feeling

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Funny Bumper Stickers

I killed a 6-pack just to watch it die My car's not a tree hugger, I'm drunk you idiot! Beer -- Helping Ugly People Get Laid Since 1837 Rehab is for Quitters I may be drunk, but you are down right ugly, and I shall be sober in the morning An Irishman is not drunk so long as he can hold on to one blade of grass and not fall off the earth. Milk sucks, got beer? 1 Tequila 2 Tequila 3 Tequila Floor Save a tree; eat a beaver. A cat by any other name is still a furry little hairball that shits behind the couch. Does this condom make me look fat? If my dog had a face as ugly as your's, I would shave his ass and teach him to walk backwards! I need someone really bad, are you really bad? I used to wonder why God made ugly people, then I realized it was so people like me could get a good laugh. Firefighters: we find them hot, and leave them wet! Can I have your number, I'll call you when my dog is in heat. Sweet guys open my heart, smart guys open my mind, but only fine guys can open my legs. Sex is evil, evil is sin, sins are forgiven, so stick it back in. Funny Bumper Stickers

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Sonnet 148. O me! what eyes hath love put in my head - Cонет 148. О, как любовь мой изменила глаз!

Sonnet 148 / O me! What eyes hath love put in my head Oh, me! What kind of eyes has love put into my head that I don’t see anything accurately? Or if my eyes do see correctly, what’s happened to my judgment to make me wrongly criticize what they see? If the woman I love to look at is beautiful, why does the rest of the world say she’s not? If she’s not, then a person in love doesn’t see as accurately as others. No—how can a lover see right? Oh, how can a lover’s eye work properly when it’s so distressed by staying awake and crying? It’s no wonder then that I’m wrong about what I see; the sun itself doesn’t see anything until the sky is clear. Oh, ingenious love, you keep me blind with tears so I won’t discover my lover’s foul faults, as I would if my eyes worked properly. by William Shakespeare Sonnet 148. O me! what eyes hath love put in my head

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Kinky Parrots

A woman had two female parrots who were always yelling, "We're prostitutes, wanna have a little fun?" One day, she was talking to her Preacher about this. He said he had two male parrots and all they did was read the Bible. He thought perhaps they would be a good influence on the two females. So they put the four parrots together. So, the females yelled at the male parrots, "We're prostitutes, wanna have a little fun?" One male parrot said to the other, "Put the Bibles away! We've made it to heaven!"

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