As the European Union is struggling to deal with the migrant crisis (hundreds of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean), German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on record as saying “you can’t all come,” ...

Michael Adams is the president of the Environics Institute and author of Could It Happen Here? Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit. Ratna Omidvar is an independent senator for Ontario and ...

In the 1960s in Quebec, in French Canada, "The Quiet Revolution" of discontent resulted in the creation of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (the B&B Commission). "The Other ...

For those of us now long in the tooth, we were raised in an era of American history that promoted the concept of the “melting pot.” The term melting pot is defined as a place where people of different ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently made headlines when she pronounced multiculturalism in Germany a failure. Shortly before, a Globe and Mail editorial argued that Canadians should eradicate ...

Nothing very liberal or democratic comes from seeking to erase human diversity. Assimilation, chosen or otherwise, shouldn't be the only option for winning acceptance in a free society.

In his nearly forgotten book Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot observed that “One people in isolation is not aware of having a ‘culture’ at all.” Until I was 12, I lived in western ...

The Australian experience of multiculturalism has been very different from the British one, and from that of other countries in Europe. Australia has a record that is almost unblemished by tensions, ...

The multiculturalism debate is guaranteed to whip up a storm Pundits have been reacting to a speech by David Cameron in which the prime minister argued multiculturalism had "failed". But what do ...

What comes to mind when you think of a nation with a strong identity? Perhaps Japan, not just for its ancient temples and bamboo forests, tea ceremonies and sushi, but also its society's deep respect ...