Dear Editor,
I see once again Richmond’s multicultural apologist-superheroes out in force trying to put out a fire storm of intricately interrelated issues with the squirt gun of “harmony”.
Our gutless and impotent city hall (council and staff ) wish to defer (again) the issue to unelected and unaccountable “community representatives” to attempt to resolve the multicultural harmony issue for the umpteenth time.
Let’s cut to the chase: multiculturalism is a failure. The end.
If one actually does the research, it has not been successful anywhere regarding a given community’s long-term interests. I am not aware of any nation whose citizens have lobbied for, or have had a referendum on, the matter.
What the evidence does show is we have a generation of power-hungry politicians who follow what Marx referred to as the capitalist “divide-and-conquer” ideology and increasingly marginalize their existing citizens, yet with crocodile tears wonder why voter turnout is so low.
The local signage issue is simply one symptom of this major global issue.
Multi-ethnicity does work….I know, I grew up in Richmond immersed in it.
In the 1960s, I went to school with parties of third generation Chinese descents, fifth generation Japanese descents, fourth generation Sikh descent…etc. etc.
We all got along just fine…much of this due to the fact we all grew up in the same basic culture — the now sought-after harmony already existed.
You cannot have harmony when no one is on the same page, or can’t even read it.
Over to you city hall. It’s time to quit hiding and face the music? Until then, harmony will be as elusive as accountability.
R.A.Hoegler
Richmond
