Oh bollocks.
 

Of course the thread starter was trolling but that didn't make it a bad thread. I've just wasted ten minutes constructing a post containing a sensible (I thought) argument just to find that the thread's gone for not being vapid enough.

Not everything of interest to ex-pats is about eggs and car insurance.

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Blame me. The one on the germany forum was just a bit much.

Feel free to continue the discussion, but first please precis the debate so far.

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Has that thread gone then. I was actually enjoying it.

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But the crazy germany one is still there!!

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you could paste your reply into here;)

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Moderators move in mysterious ways.

Apparently.

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I did see the one on that forum and yes, that was unacceptable. Here though the debate concerned which ethnic minority might be most likely to provide a Prime Minister in the UK or in Canada and the nature of multi-culturalism in different countries. I was about to post this:

"I'll say something for Canada here, well Toronto anyway, I think it's genuinely multi-cultural. The UK exemplifies the melting pot approach to ethnicity whereas Canada, lacking any defining quality of its own, has allowed all hyphenated ethnicities to be equal. It may be that a night at a Korean restaurant is an exercise in cultural awareness but that's because the crowd attending is a Greek-Canadian, a Russian-Canadian, an Indian-Canadian and the Croatian/Australian lesbians who always tag along."

in response to a post claiming the UK to be the epicentre of multiculturalism and that in Canada a trip to a Korean restaurant was the extent of cultural diversity on offer.

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Me too, some meat to it, I thought.

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Now it's back. Bloody hell, It's like trying to follow the blog of a couple at war.

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One wonders if a post claiming that the extent of Canadian multiculturalism is a trip to a Korean restaurant merits such a considered response.

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It was a bit of a thinky thread.

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I didn't agree with wheatsheaf either. Though of Vancouver I would say it's multi-ethnic rather than mutli-cultural. It's reasonably diverse when you look at peoples faces, but it really doesn't feel multi cultural. Maybe because, as you say, canada is a bit of a cultural tabula rasa.

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Oh. What a shame.

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Ha! Nice one.

Fred drifting....one of my fellow MBA students (from Canada's cheapest MBA programme, not the FT20 CEO of whatever bollox, the late and unlamented, koolio was drivelling on about) brought this website to my attention: http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ I looked for you on there but disappointingly you are not to be found.;)

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Thank God for that. Obviously I've heard of that site, but have never had the courage to look at it.