Nigel Biggar: Eurocentricity is justified

Nigel Biggar/National Post: Much the same applies to Canada. Notwithstanding the contribution of Indigenous Canadians and recent immigrants from Asia and Africa, the original builders of the nation-state of Canada were European — predominantly French and British, especially Scottish. Its primary languages, parliamentary institutions, legal system, and liberal traditions are not part of the eternal, cosmic furniture. They didn’t drop from heaven. They aren’t universal. The were created over centuries — sometimes at considerable human cost — in certain parts of Europe. Nascent Canadian citizens need to know that. For, whatever non-European cultural “diversity” Canada contains, Canadians need to remember and appreciate the European particularity of the country’s origins. Otherwise, they risk squandering the rights and liberties that their European heritage has — uniquely — bequeathed them…