Unify Action - December 19, 2025


The Moment Canadian Students Realized Diversity Isn’t Enough to Build a Nation


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3 minutes

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699

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In this episode, we talk about the benefits of diversity in Canada and what we need to do about it. We also talk about some of the challenges we face as a country and how we can overcome them. We hope you enjoy this episode and stay tuned for the next one!

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00:00:00.000 Do you guys think diversity is our strength?
00:00:02.880 Yeah, of course.
00:00:03.720 I would say yes.
00:00:05.260 I think it's a strength.
00:00:06.900 Yeah, definitely would say so.
00:00:08.280 I definitely think it's one of our stronger points.
00:00:11.360 I think diversity is a good thing.
00:00:12.680 You get lots of perspectives.
00:00:14.140 What sort of strength comes from diversity?
00:00:16.640 I think it's just different perspectives come together.
00:00:21.340 We can build a stronger community
00:00:22.620 and people can understand more about each other
00:00:25.040 in their back and rounds
00:00:26.560 and kind of just, again, understand each other
00:00:28.860 become closer and build a stronger community and also build a safer community and a community where
00:00:34.540 all of us feel welcome you get all sorts of perspectives so it's not just like one world
00:00:39.500 view and like you can get open you can become open to sort of perspectives from all over the
00:00:44.140 world and get new ideas and each person that comes in from a different culture kind of enriches like
00:00:49.500 canada's culture as a whole it's okay um so do you think diversity of opinion is also our strength
00:00:54.940 yeah absolutely I think with diversity that just comes with it yeah I would say
00:01:01.700 so if like freedom of speech is important if you don't allow that for
00:01:05.920 some people like if some people aren't free to express their emotion that can
00:01:09.340 come out as violence later I feel like it's it's good to hear different
00:01:12.000 opinions from different people because everyone again is not the same so it's
00:01:15.680 good to hear different opinions so do you think like as a country right now do
00:01:19.900 Do you think Canada is strong or are we more divided?
00:01:23.900 Right now I think we're a little bit divided.
00:01:26.900 I guess I'd have to say we're on the fence right now really.
00:01:29.900 I do think we are kind of divided because different groups kind of don't like each other
00:01:33.900 and then like when they have different opinions like it causes a lot of clashing conflict.
00:01:38.900 So even though we're diverse we have so much division as well.
00:01:43.900 We harp a lot about our diversity and our multiculturalism but there needs to be something more.
00:01:48.900 right so we need like in Canada we need actual underlying culture and we really
00:01:57.360 haven't had that for like almost 60 years what we've had for the past half
00:02:01.080 decade or more it's just been oh we're not American that's who Canada is when
00:02:06.240 you're literally pointing out all the differences that you have with someone
00:02:09.400 else you're like you're amplifying it and when you amplify the differences
00:02:14.280 that's really the only thing that you're looking at you choose your friends by
00:02:18.840 by the ones that are most like you and have common interests, right?
00:02:23.240 So even if your friends have different opinions, like one likes PC, the other likes Subway,
00:02:28.940 but you get along even though you have those different opinions
00:02:32.920 because you're both students, you both enjoy the same kind of subjects overall, right?
00:02:40.100 So our commonalities unite us, not necessarily our diverse opinions.
00:02:44.620 Does that make sense?
00:02:45.300 So you're saying there has to be something that unites everyone in Canada?
00:02:48.840 when I look at it as a country we need a common goal that we're all reaching
00:02:53.280 towards and a common culture as well that we each like something that draws
00:02:58.440 us all together that we each know like okay we're together as a community as a
00:03:02.940 country as a people we're reaching towards this goal like even it could
00:03:07.260 just be freedom or it could be like the safest streets or something like that
00:03:11.800 things that draw us together but diversity as itself it's not enough like
00:03:17.340 We're diverse, but we're also divided, so we need something to kind of draw us together, right?
00:03:21.120 That's very true.
00:03:21.700 Yeah.
00:03:22.020 We need that one goal to really come closer, because all the different cultures and everything,
00:03:26.400 they still, they try to push their culture onto other people, which is fine,
00:03:30.220 but, like, at the end of the day, everyone has their own background,
00:03:33.140 but everyone needs to come together, like you're saying, and try to be one at the end of the day.
00:03:37.580 Yeah.