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If my memory of grade school social studies doesn't fail me, the American idea of multicultural identity is different than in Canada. This difference is typically described as the American melting-pot vs. the Canadian mosaic.
It's less about blending into the mainstream culture, and more about bringing the best parts of our backgrounds and upbringings to the table. If the writer has visited Toronto much at all, it should be readily apparent: From the diverse ethnic neighbourhoods, the food, the festivals and events, to our council are of various racial backgrounds, but we are all Canadian.
What Canadian culture generally asks is to leave harmful parts of other cultures at the door. Caste systems, discrimination, foreign police interference, gun violence etc. (Obviously pockets of it exist and we're not perfect).
It's not really that different, people can say they're American or Canadian first but their life experiences are pretty similar on both sides of the border as they both mostly hang around people of their original cultural background in their personal life and some of them do continue to practice the harmful parts of their culture like forced marriage, caste systems, racism, female genital mutilation, they might send their kid out the US/Canada to do it so we can pretend it doesn't happen, but it does.
It's perfectly normal as well! It's natural to hang around people who are similar to us and we would do the same thing if we moved to a country that's completely different to ours where there was a community of people of the same origin as us!
As for the other side of the equation, racists exist everywhere so the Americans flying their flag might be the white power kind or not just like some Canadians flying the Canadian flag might be racists that would want all migrants out... Or not. The interviewee's concerns about Canadians raising their flag is pretty funny in that sense...
I know that Anglo Canadians really want to make themselves believe they're super different from Americans and that Canada isn't like the USA, but it's mostly the same thing with a different political system and mostly public healthcare. Sorry to burst your bubble guys.
Sounds like an overly broad brush.
Because in the end multiculturalism is what happens in the USA, it was just never made an official thing by the federal government like in Canada.