Unify Action - December 16, 2025


Why This Student Reconsidered Everything About Diversity


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In this episode, we talk about the benefits of diversity in Canada and what we need as a country to make it more diverse. We also discuss the need for a common purpose and a shared purpose that unites all of us.

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00:00:00.320 So do you think diversity is our strength?
00:00:03.820 I think diversity is a good thing. You get lots of perspectives.
00:00:07.240 Do you think it's a strength, though?
00:00:09.100 Yeah, I would say so.
00:00:10.780 So what sort of strength comes from diversity?
00:00:13.540 Like I said, you get all sorts of perspectives, so it's not just one worldview.
00:00:18.000 And you can become open to perspectives from all over the world and get new ideas.
00:00:23.760 And each person that comes in from a different culture kind of enriches Canada's culture as a whole.
00:00:28.560 and so do you think diversity of thought and like the whole marketplace of ideas do you think that's 0.97
00:00:35.260 a strength as well yeah if you have like one type of thought it can very it can become very easy to
00:00:41.000 like be like single how like one single worldview and like fall into like a rabbit hole of like
00:00:46.540 these echo chambers where there's no like difference of opinion and i think being exposed
00:00:50.980 to different opinions encourages you to think more and more and it kind of expand like what
00:00:55.720 you know and how you think so do you think like as a country right now do you think Canada is
00:01:02.100 strong or are we more divided as like between groups and things I do think we are kind of
00:01:10.080 divided because different groups kind of don't like each other and then like when they have
00:01:13.700 different opinions like it causes a lot of clashing conflict so I think we could be better
00:01:18.840 at kind of integrating and, like, accepting each other
00:01:23.360 more than just, like, trying to, like, battle our differences, you know?
00:01:28.980 Yeah.
00:01:29.980 So why is it that we're so diverse but we're all so divided?
00:01:36.440 What do you think we need as a country?
00:01:38.980 I don't know that there is a solution.
00:01:41.640 I think people should just be kinder, you know?
00:01:45.420 Yeah.
00:01:45.820 Yeah, so I'm just going around and I'm talking to students about this whole issue, about diversity, but also the division we see in our country.
00:01:54.760 And we harp a lot about our diversity and our multiculturalism.
00:01:59.500 And I think having people from different backgrounds and bringing different ideas is like, it's a good thing, but there needs to be something more, right?
00:02:06.560 So we need, like, in Canada, we need an actual underlying culture.
00:02:12.180 And we really haven't had that for, like, almost 60 years.
00:02:15.760 What we've had for the past half decade or more has just been, oh, we're not American. 0.97
00:02:20.840 That's who Canada is. 0.96
00:02:22.240 That's kind of been it.
00:02:23.600 And we just haven't had our own sort of culture, something that people rally around.
00:02:27.960 So I think that's part of the reason that there is such a divide between the left and the right.
00:02:32.100 I think there's also a divide in the fact that we don't talk a lot
00:02:35.160 or try and understand each other's opinions.
00:02:37.900 I think that's one thing.
00:02:40.220 But it's just that we don't have an underlying culture
00:02:43.720 or an underlying reason to get along.
00:02:48.060 So I'm just asking students to kind of think about this, right?
00:02:52.480 Like, you choose your friends by the ones that are most like you
00:02:58.600 and have common interests, right?
00:03:00.240 So even if your friends have different opinions, like one likes PC, the other likes Subway,
00:03:06.140 but you get along even though you have those different opinions
00:03:10.100 because you're both students, you both enjoy the same kind of subjects overall, right?
00:03:17.320 So our commonalities unite us, not necessarily our diverse opinions.
00:03:21.820 Does that make sense?
00:03:22.680 So you're saying there has to be something that unites everyone in Canada?
00:03:26.180 Okay, and what do you think that should be?
00:03:28.380 well definitely a shared purpose we don't have a complete direction where
00:03:34.260 we're heading as a country all we're doing is barely getting by and fighting
00:03:37.740 tariffs at this point we need kind of a direction like okay are we gonna be the
00:03:43.280 best at something and if like choose that something okay we're gonna be the
00:03:47.800 best helping other countries get off their cool dependency or something like
00:03:52.400 that the best at something right we need kind of that shared goal we also as I
00:03:57.680 said we also need a culture and I personally I I'm trying to figure this out like what sort of
00:04:02.560 culture we need as a country that kind of draws us together right not just like yes different
00:04:09.460 people from different backgrounds but like something that draws us together this is something
00:04:12.420 I'm figuring out yeah um but I personally don't think diversity is as much a strength as we think
00:04:19.260 it is it's an aspect of a country but not the entirety of it yeah yeah yeah I
00:04:27.600 think I agree I don't think diversity in itself like is fully a strength like
00:04:32.280 it's nice to have all these opinions but there has to be something that unites
00:04:35.460 the people you know like the strength can't just be like how different we are
00:04:38.460 there has to be something that actually builds us like together