The New Zealand Model?
...somewhat continued from the last post, the last posts in fact, on China, America, the futures...
I wonder if there is such a thing as a 'perfect country', relatively, every one has their flaws, and what works best for one people, wouldn't for another. Still, I know for sure that 'American Democracy' (as popularly used with quotations right now...) is definitely not right for China, or Canada, heck, the way it's going right now, I don't think it's doing America much of good either. 'Freedom to Pursue Happiness' is beginning to look a lot like Freedom To Search For Water In The Desert. The flaw in the current American 'capitalist freedom' way of thinking to me is, there is no such thing as a pure 'free market', or 'absolute freedom', anymore, once you have a society, once you have any sort of history. Theoretically, everyone has the equal opportunity to earn more than others...but due to pre-existing conditions, parents, old money, old debts, without the intervention of your elected government on the behalf of your collective society, it won't be equal. That's why, freedom to enterprise whatsoever, you still need 'government intervention' on providing healthcare, education, and the taxes to fund them, in order to maintain a state of freedom and equality, which goes hand in hand.
...there are many countries in all over the world, and over the centuries. Since the 1970s democratically elected communist government in Chile had a very short reign before it was taken over by an American approved capitalist militant dictatorship, I'll never know how that would have turned out. So far though, I really like what I see in New Zealand. I don't know much about it so far, so that could be it (red wool flowers look better at a distance)...but it does look good, check out Human rights in New Zealand. What I'm most impressed with though, is how New Zealand 'dealt' with its aboriginals and their culture, it's been integrated, or is in the process of being. Whereas in Canada, we took the ignore them and hope they'll stay on their reserves or stop being aboriginal approach...Maori culture and language are not only kept alive within the Maori people, but seem to be integrated into general New Zealand culture as well. (Is it? I have the impression that Maori is like, French in Canada...Ottawa-Canada, or Chinese in Toronto. There was a mockthestupid rant about someone who shouted their PIN in Maori...which is stupid because there are probably people other than the shouter who could understand it.)
Why can't Canada do that? Why do we have both the languages of the original colonizers, The English and The French, on both sides of everything, but we don't even have a separate class to familiarize all of us with the cultures of the aboriginals? Almost all of us, are living in their land after all, is it not considerate for immigrants to learn and seek to understand? There is the problem of which aboriginal culture, especially since many of the nations were warring, but at least, try. Starting from elementary, we can have, a geographic history of Canada through the eyes of the aboriginals, and then we can have the languages. Multiculturalism shouldn't end in everyone sticking to their own culture, but reaching out to enjoy the aspects of all the cultures around us. I don't believe it could work any other way, there will be no unity if we were to simply 'tolerate' each other's presence, each seeking to look the other way...
I wonder if there is such a thing as a 'perfect country', relatively, every one has their flaws, and what works best for one people, wouldn't for another. Still, I know for sure that 'American Democracy' (as popularly used with quotations right now...) is definitely not right for China, or Canada, heck, the way it's going right now, I don't think it's doing America much of good either. 'Freedom to Pursue Happiness' is beginning to look a lot like Freedom To Search For Water In The Desert. The flaw in the current American 'capitalist freedom' way of thinking to me is, there is no such thing as a pure 'free market', or 'absolute freedom', anymore, once you have a society, once you have any sort of history. Theoretically, everyone has the equal opportunity to earn more than others...but due to pre-existing conditions, parents, old money, old debts, without the intervention of your elected government on the behalf of your collective society, it won't be equal. That's why, freedom to enterprise whatsoever, you still need 'government intervention' on providing healthcare, education, and the taxes to fund them, in order to maintain a state of freedom and equality, which goes hand in hand.
...there are many countries in all over the world, and over the centuries. Since the 1970s democratically elected communist government in Chile had a very short reign before it was taken over by an American approved capitalist militant dictatorship, I'll never know how that would have turned out. So far though, I really like what I see in New Zealand. I don't know much about it so far, so that could be it (red wool flowers look better at a distance)...but it does look good, check out Human rights in New Zealand. What I'm most impressed with though, is how New Zealand 'dealt' with its aboriginals and their culture, it's been integrated, or is in the process of being. Whereas in Canada, we took the ignore them and hope they'll stay on their reserves or stop being aboriginal approach...Maori culture and language are not only kept alive within the Maori people, but seem to be integrated into general New Zealand culture as well. (Is it? I have the impression that Maori is like, French in Canada...Ottawa-Canada, or Chinese in Toronto. There was a mockthestupid rant about someone who shouted their PIN in Maori...which is stupid because there are probably people other than the shouter who could understand it.)
Why can't Canada do that? Why do we have both the languages of the original colonizers, The English and The French, on both sides of everything, but we don't even have a separate class to familiarize all of us with the cultures of the aboriginals? Almost all of us, are living in their land after all, is it not considerate for immigrants to learn and seek to understand? There is the problem of which aboriginal culture, especially since many of the nations were warring, but at least, try. Starting from elementary, we can have, a geographic history of Canada through the eyes of the aboriginals, and then we can have the languages. Multiculturalism shouldn't end in everyone sticking to their own culture, but reaching out to enjoy the aspects of all the cultures around us. I don't believe it could work any other way, there will be no unity if we were to simply 'tolerate' each other's presence, each seeking to look the other way...