The Meeting of the Twain
A scholar of eastern and western cultures proposes a new way of seeing each other June 2007
One morning in January of this year, when Ipicked up the Winnipeg Sun from my door-step to accompany my breakfast cup of coffee, the bold headline “47% Racist: Shocking number of Canadians admit feelings of intolerance, poll shows” caught my attention and cast a shadow over the day. In a series of articles under the title “Racism and Intolerance,” the newspaper published the results of a national opinion poll that asked some difficult questions of Canadians across the…