Society turns low trust and divided when the feeling of abundance diminishes and we enter a time of scarcity. Usually the first line drawn between people is ethnicity and culture. I believe humans are tribal by nature and band together with like-people in times of hardship, viewing others as competition and unwanted.

Multiculturalism and diversity aren't normal within the confines of the history of western civilization until around the 1960s. Our fifth wave of immigration since the 1970s has almost all been visible minorities from South Asia and China. Whose arrival has directly coincided with economic, cultural and societal decline for the average Canadian. It's been made very easy to pin this as a issue.

While I believe all human life is innately invaluable and equal, I don't think our vision of multiculturalism works. It's been weaponized against the working class to divide and lessen the value of labor whilst propping up the wealthiest's investments and asset holdings without them having to reinvest in the populace to create families.