And Nicole, to answer your question from above: it varies from person to person. I know many Canucks that, like me, consider our avowed multiculturalism a thing to be proud of, and others that consider it a useless and doomed socialogical experiment (they feel that different cultures cannot possible co-exist in close proximity and need to either assimilate and change the culture of the so-called majority from within as they do... "melting pot", IOW). But most probably just accept things as the status quo and don't think about it too much.

I personally consider it a worthwhile experiment, perhaps the most worthwhile going on on the planet today. If we can make it work in our country, perhaps there's hope for a balkanized planet to not tear itself apart while still preserving cultural diversity. A tough way to go, but, what the hell... the melting pot option will always be there (assuming there's anything left when the dust clears).