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It's Not Only Immigrants Who Have Multiple Loyalties
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 128006" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="color: #000040"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>It's not only immigrants who have multiple loyalties</strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040"><em><strong>We all have to juggle family, religion, work, friends, culture, ideas -- and we're much the better for it</strong></em></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040"><strong>By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun - June 5, 2010 </strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000040"> </span></p><p><span style="color: #000040">How can Sikh immigrants be loyal to Canada and, at the same time, press to create an independent Sikh homeland in India called Khalistan?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">How can devout Muslim Canadians be loyal to both Canada's democratic laws and the teachings of the Koran?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">How can Chinese immigrants be loyal to Metro Vancouver if they speak Mandarin in their homes and retain citizenship in China?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">These are some of the ways that Canadians in the 21st century are talking about controversies revolving around the issue of "dual loyalties."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">The phrase is typically pejorative. It's mostly used to question the level of commitment that immigrants may or may not bring to their new homeland.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">But is it fair to accuse recent immigrants of having "dual loyalties," let alone " multiple loyalties?"</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Is having multiple loyalties as dangerous as it's made to sound? Is it an act of betrayal?</span></p><p><span style="color: #000040">Even though the multiple loyalty discussion usually focuses on immigrants, it stretches across the social spectrum -- to all of us.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Questions about multiple loyalties pop up in politics, workplaces, families and even intimate relationships.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">We all face loyalty challenges. We all have to make choices about how committed we intend to be to different things about which we care, which can sometimes feel in conflict.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Before exploring how each one of us must juggle divergent loyalties in our pluralistic society, let's first explore the traditional way people have seized the issue.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">It has usually centred on nationalism. In North America, one the most famous battles over dual loyalties emerged during the Second World War.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">That's when Canadian and U.S. citizens of Japanese, German and Italian ancestry were confined to internment camps because of fears they would undermine the Allied cause as traitors.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Later, in the 1950s, U.S. senator Joe McCarthy harassed and jailed many noted Americans for allegedly being a fifth column, more loyal to communism than America.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">During John F. Kennedy's campaign for U.S. president in 1960, some opponents questioned whether a Roman Catholic would be more beholden to the pope than the citizens of his own country.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Similarly, in Canada at the beginning of the 20th century, the University of Victoria's Paul Bramadat said some members of the dominant Anglo-Protestant community worried that allowing more Roman Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Italy would lead to the collapse of English-speaking Canada.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">"This question is not new at all in North America," says Bramadat, director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at UVic. "What does change are the names of the people whose 'multiple loyalties' some people fear will lead to social disintegration."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Still, Bramadat acknowledges that questions about multiple loyalties are again coming to the fore in North America because of rising immigration, more affordable travel, economic globalization and advanced communication technology.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">While Bramadat is right to argue that the dangers associated with multiple loyalties can be greatly exaggerated, it's not entirely fair to suggest, as some do, that anyone who asks questions about multiple loyalties is a bigot.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">In an increasingly complex society -- where a host of politicians, spiritual leaders, sports teams, corporate brands and loved ones ask us to commit to them -- there is still something good about old-fashioned loyalty.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Loyalty helps us create a coherent sense </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">of who we are and where we're heading. Commitment ties people and communities together.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000040">In the confusion of contemporary life, it is beneficial to declare we are strongly attached to something -- our country, our family, our faith or our ethical principles.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">When our traditional loyalties are threatened, it can feel as if our psyches are breaking into fragments.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">We can feel emotionally torn, says Simon Fraser University ethicist Mark Wexler, when we attempt to be loyal to both a new country and our country of birth, to both our growing families and our demanding workplaces, to both our religious leader's teachings and our individual consciences.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Our sense of personal integrity and purity can feel as if it's becoming undone, Wexler says, when we start asking questions such as: "How can I be loyal to two countries, particularly when one is at war with the other?</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">"How can I be loyal to my principles when I am drawn to many different and viable options? [If I divorce and remarry] how can I be loyal to two families? How can I be loyal to two faiths, each with their own version of God? "</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">As we loosen traditional loyalties, Wexler says, we can regret leaving behind our previous identity, and fear we will fail at our new one. Worst of all, we might lose track of who we are.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000040">With multiple loyalties, as Wexler says, we have reason to fret about becoming "a chameleon on a Persian rug;" a chaotic patchwork of conflicting identities.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">It's clearly not only immigrants who have to struggle with such questions of multiple attachments. The issues are inescapable for most of us.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">And that can be a good thing.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">The positive aspect of being open to multiple loyalties is that it helps us grow. It stretches our boundaries. It makes life adventurous.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">There is a sense of romance and excitement in trying out new loyalties, new commitments, new attachments.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">We leave behind the "old country" to bring our talents and hopes to a new nation.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000040">We develop new friends as we change professions or social status.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">We find ourselves with additional family members as we step out of old relationships and into new ones.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">When we experience multiple loyalties, Wexler says, "The joys of a new sense of self come into being. There is the romance of what may be possible in an alternate world or an alternate identity.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">"This is far more than a delusion. It is the hope of becoming."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">In other words, it could well be empty nostalgia to yearn for a time when we thought we could avoid multiple loyalties. The only way to sidestep them is to remain static, in a rut.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">If we want to live with creativity, the challenge of juggling multiple loyalties becomes virtually unavoidable.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040">Maybe that's the kind of thing Bob Dylan was talking about when he famously sang, "he not busy being born is busy dying."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000040"><!-- e --><a href="mailto:dtodd@{censored}"><span style="color: #000080">dtodd@{censored}</span></a><!-- e --></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000040"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000040">© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun </span></p><p> <span style="color: #000040"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000040"><span style="color: #000040">source: <!-- m --><a href="http://www.{censored}/news/todays-paper/only+immigrants+have+multiple+loyalties/3117142/story.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080">http://www.{censored}/news/todays ... story.html</span></a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 128006, member: 884"] [COLOR=#000040][SIZE=5][B]It's not only immigrants who have multiple loyalties[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040][I][B]We all have to juggle family, religion, work, friends, culture, ideas -- and we're much the better for it[/B][/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040][B]By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun - June 5, 2010 [/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]How can Sikh immigrants be loyal to Canada and, at the same time, press to create an independent Sikh homeland in India called Khalistan?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]How can devout Muslim Canadians be loyal to both Canada's democratic laws and the teachings of the Koran?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]How can Chinese immigrants be loyal to Metro Vancouver if they speak Mandarin in their homes and retain citizenship in China?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]These are some of the ways that Canadians in the 21st century are talking about controversies revolving around the issue of "dual loyalties."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]The phrase is typically pejorative. It's mostly used to question the level of commitment that immigrants may or may not bring to their new homeland.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]But is it fair to accuse recent immigrants of having "dual loyalties," let alone " multiple loyalties?"[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Is having multiple loyalties as dangerous as it's made to sound? Is it an act of betrayal?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Even though the multiple loyalty discussion usually focuses on immigrants, it stretches across the social spectrum -- to all of us.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Questions about multiple loyalties pop up in politics, workplaces, families and even intimate relationships.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]We all face loyalty challenges. We all have to make choices about how committed we intend to be to different things about which we care, which can sometimes feel in conflict.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Before exploring how each one of us must juggle divergent loyalties in our pluralistic society, let's first explore the traditional way people have seized the issue.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]It has usually centred on nationalism. In North America, one the most famous battles over dual loyalties emerged during the Second World War.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]That's when Canadian and U.S. citizens of Japanese, German and Italian ancestry were confined to internment camps because of fears they would undermine the Allied cause as traitors.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Later, in the 1950s, U.S. senator Joe McCarthy harassed and jailed many noted Americans for allegedly being a fifth column, more loyal to communism than America.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]During John F. Kennedy's campaign for U.S. president in 1960, some opponents questioned whether a Roman Catholic would be more beholden to the pope than the citizens of his own country.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Similarly, in Canada at the beginning of the 20th century, the University of Victoria's Paul Bramadat said some members of the dominant Anglo-Protestant community worried that allowing more Roman Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Italy would lead to the collapse of English-speaking Canada.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]"This question is not new at all in North America," says Bramadat, director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at UVic. "What does change are the names of the people whose 'multiple loyalties' some people fear will lead to social disintegration."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Still, Bramadat acknowledges that questions about multiple loyalties are again coming to the fore in North America because of rising immigration, more affordable travel, economic globalization and advanced communication technology.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]While Bramadat is right to argue that the dangers associated with multiple loyalties can be greatly exaggerated, it's not entirely fair to suggest, as some do, that anyone who asks questions about multiple loyalties is a bigot.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]In an increasingly complex society -- where a host of politicians, spiritual leaders, sports teams, corporate brands and loved ones ask us to commit to them -- there is still something good about old-fashioned loyalty.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Loyalty helps us create a coherent sense [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]of who we are and where we're heading. 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[If I divorce and remarry] how can I be loyal to two families? How can I be loyal to two faiths, each with their own version of God? "[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]As we loosen traditional loyalties, Wexler says, we can regret leaving behind our previous identity, and fear we will fail at our new one. Worst of all, we might lose track of who we are.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]With multiple loyalties, as Wexler says, we have reason to fret about becoming "a chameleon on a Persian rug;" a chaotic patchwork of conflicting identities.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]It's clearly not only immigrants who have to struggle with such questions of multiple attachments. The issues are inescapable for most of us.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]And that can be a good thing.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]The positive aspect of being open to multiple loyalties is that it helps us grow. It stretches our boundaries. It makes life adventurous.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]There is a sense of romance and excitement in trying out new loyalties, new commitments, new attachments.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]We leave behind the "old country" to bring our talents and hopes to a new nation.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]We develop new friends as we change professions or social status.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]We find ourselves with additional family members as we step out of old relationships and into new ones.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]When we experience multiple loyalties, Wexler says, "The joys of a new sense of self come into being. There is the romance of what may be possible in an alternate world or an alternate identity.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]"This is far more than a delusion. It is the hope of becoming."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]In other words, it could well be empty nostalgia to yearn for a time when we thought we could avoid multiple loyalties. The only way to sidestep them is to remain static, in a rut.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]If we want to live with creativity, the challenge of juggling multiple loyalties becomes virtually unavoidable.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]Maybe that's the kind of thing Bob Dylan was talking about when he famously sang, "he not busy being born is busy dying."[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000040]<!-- e -->[EMAIL="dtodd@{censored}"][COLOR=#000080]dtodd@{censored}[/COLOR][/EMAIL]<!-- e --> © Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun [COLOR=#000040]source: <!-- m -->[URL="http://www.{censored}/news/todays-paper/only+immigrants+have+multiple+loyalties/3117142/story.html"][COLOR=#800080]http://www.{censored}/news/todays ... story.html[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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