This season, Hollywood's middle-aged adolescents are spinning tales of tumbling comets and Godzilla run amok in New York. The most telling moment of the governor's race came when the four major candidates stood before an assembly of Latino fat cats. The candidates merely rivaled each other with adjectives praising immigrants, praising Latinos. The debate over bilingual education is destined to turn national. In Canada, multiculturalism is official government policy.
Diversity is the flag flying over all.
Our academics and politicians, certainly, sound the Canadian anthem with their praise of diversity. My suspicion, however, is that Mexico, not Canada, holds the key to California's future. Mexico has no notion of multiculturalism. Mexico is a nation formed by the mestizaje. From its birth, despite violence and death, Mexico was created from a literal mixing of blood.