Quebec, Apartheid, Lithuania and Tibet

There are millions of Quebeckers and millions of Zulus. But be careful when you talk about that. Do not use the “E word” in South Africa. But do not fail to use it in Canada. And do not talk about group rights in South Africa. But do not fail to talk about them in Quebec. Like alpinists who climb Mount Everest because “it is there,” the ANC routinely dismisses Inkatha (the Zulu movement) on the apparently self-evident grounds that “it is ethnic.” And democracy is simply equated with individual rights. ANC visitors to Canada then find mat political life in “progressive” Quebec is essentially structured along ethnic lines, and that Canada's constitutional crisis is all about group rights

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