Multiculturalism is the 'token hippie' variant of Monoculturalism

Seventy five years after WWII should have taught them better, all nations remain de facto monocultural but have learned to put up with some token multiculturalism, just as long as it restricts itself to a few street festivals with dancers in colourful 'ethnic' costumes and lots of spicy dishes.

But as the grandson of grandparents who came to Canada as young adults from England and Hungary, I have no one 'old country' ethnic culture to fit into under this multiple but strictly separate cultures model.

In WWII's all-important clash of ideas, the forces of polyculturalism defeated the force of monoculturalism, without really aware they had done so

History is always like that - it sees something profound happening in the past that people back then were not - or at best barely - aware of....

If 'modern' is just a fancy word for contemporary, then "academically", postmodern means nothing more profound than 'the future'

Rome in 30 BC was thought of as 'modern' to its contemporary residents, who felt they knew it quite well, but they if they thought at all of post modern Rome, say circa 313 AD, it  remained simply as something unknown and existing 'in the future'.

So those much use terms 'modern' and 'post modern' really tells us nothing about what might be potentially very different about these two Romes, simply that one existed earlier and the other later.