Brave New World—Adapt or Perish Dr. Bikram Lamba

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Dr. Bikram Lamba

StarBuzz Weekly, Toronto-Shakespeare in his The Tempest “makes his heroine Miranda cry out in amazement at seeing the new world that had been denied to her because of exile of his father. Her cry “Brave New World” seems to be echoed everyday by immigrants when the touch the soils of their new adapted land. People migrate to different countries, especially Canada, USA and Australia on account of various reasons, such as employment, higher education studies, formal/informal visits.But it is that category of people who have come to be transplanted that are at first awe-struck and then starts the process of disillusion. Often the back home attracts them; some are reduced to be nervous wrecks that are often pitiful. But they have burnt their bridges.

More often not, there is no going back. So why not adapt to the new environs.  It is not easy for human beings to adapt. The early habits are so deeply ingrained that it is well nigh impossible to get over the pulls of the past. However, one must always leave no room for misconceptions or misunderstandings and try to deal with adjusting to a different environment. A few steps can be recommended in cross-cultural teachings for the following people to make their transition easy:

1. Those who want to feel comfortable in new and foreign environments. Feeling 'at home' in a new city or country is a process. Walking into unfamiliar territory can bring tremendous rewards and also many challenges. Cross-cultural coaching helps you sort out your experiences and helps you balance your rewards and challenges to create more comfort in your new environment. You should try to adapt to the new culture. Those who cling to the old system are like bats and belong to neither. Change your dress, your way of life, your style and become one of them. The cry of back-home culture is a cry of those who either want to prey on your helplessness or have themselves been marginalized. 

2. Those who want to regain their identity and freedom while living abroad.When we move, we have to learn, unlearn and relearn ways of doing things in a new place. Sometimes, we feel "at the mercy of others" for our day-to-day activities. Things we took for granted 'back home', like finding our favorite food, knowing how to make friends, being successful at school or work, driving, or any other daily activity, can become difficult or feel impossible to do in our new cultural and social situation abroad.Sometimes, cultural situations that we may not understand happen to us, and we'd like to discuss them with someone who's neutral, who won't judge us and who can maybe provide us an insider perspective. And here is an opportunity to make friends with those who have been here for a longer period and have got over the hangover of their past.

3. Those who believe cultural adjustment is an ongoing process that affects many aspects of our lives and relationships. Life is all about relationships. When we move abroad, we experience different kind of stresses on our relationships, something that we may not have experienced if we were 'at home'. Basic, daily situations, even as simple as communicating with 'strangers', co-workers, new friends or others suddenly require a lot more effort than before.Misunderstandings seem to happen more frequently and quickly than in our 'native cultural environment.' Lessons in cross-cultural coaching can help you sort out aspects of cross-cultural relationships in your community, within your friends' circle and within your family environments to create comfort.

4. Those who want to balance cultures and spiritual traditions in their cross-cultural and interfaith relationships and marriages. Now-a-days one doesn't have to leave one’s own country to experience cross-cultural relationships. In our global world, people from different cultures, countries, spiritual traditions, religious backgrounds and ethnicities can intermingle freely. Bringing together people from different backgrounds can be rewarding, but it also poses some unique challenges in balancing approaches to life, traditions, day-to-day behaviors and much more.Cross-cultural understanding helps you explore and find your own unique solutions to your cross-cultural relationship questions in your friendships, dating life, engagements, marriages, and extended family circumstances. Never go by the stereotypes and brand cultures or link them to the skin colour, nor always try to glorify your own back-home culture

5. Those who already know English and want to be better understood by others  in daily life situations. Having had studied English grammar, vocabulary and idioms in one's own country is very essential in preparation to coming to the new worlds. However, many people are bewildered when they come to these countries and realize that they can't seem to understand daily conversation in grocery stores, doctor's offices, daily greetings among strangers and the multitude of other areas where language is used.  Try to understand and realize that your mastery of the language shall make you one of them and not set you apart.I am not against your language, but that is for use at home. Stressing your own culture or language shall make you live in mental silos and ghetto dwellers can never be useful citizens. Become a citizen in word and deed. That way lies your salvation in the new countries that you adopt.

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Diversity in Canadian Foreign Policy by Dr. Bikram Lamba

Dr. Bikram Lamba

StarBuzz Weekly, Toronto-Throughout the recent federal election campaign, a popular topic of conversation in political circles was the increasing importance of ethno-cultural communities in determining the outcome of the May 2^nd election, and the attendant increase in attention paid to those communities by all political parties.  In large urban and suburban areas, such as the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), such efforts were particularly noticeable.


The increased relevance of ethno-cultural communities in national politics actually helps to highlight a world of largely-untapped opportunity. Canada could gain a great deal by tapping more systematically into the potential that our ethno-cultural diversity offers us, and there has never been a better time to begin that process than now.




There is need to create awareness about how the connections, the experience and the insights found within our ethno-cultural communities could and should be interwoven into the way in which Canada’s foreign policy interests are identified, assessed and acted upon in order to maximize our global interests. We have to, as an integeral part of this process, to examine some of the ways in which other Western democracies involve diaspora communities in policy-making, and then compares the relative advantages of a roster of policy mechanisms that the Government of Canada might employ to increase both the quantity of policy inputs received from diaspora groups in Canada, and the quality of the resultant policy decisions. 




The federal bureaucracy is already aware of the importance of this topic area.  In 2010, the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) announced and created its “Global Citizens Initiative”, the ambitions for which include improving the ways in which Canadians with personal, first-hand and expert knowledge about countries or regions outside of Canada would be able to enrich the content of Canada’s foreign policies and programs. 




No one pretends that that integrating more ethno-cultural voices into policy-making will be an easy process. Different diasporic communities may have different, or even opposing, views on particular issues, and any policy inputs received must be carefully measured against Canada’s core values and interests.  However, these challenges can – and must be overcome, if for no other reason than the fact that “public policy” should, at a very fundamental level, be representative of the Canadian public in all its diversity. Ultimately, the attempt to include Canada’s ethno-cultural voices in policy making, particularly in regards to foreign policy, will be a test of how serious we are about transforming our diversity into full-bodied pluralism.




From Paris, France, to Paris, Texas, almost all Western countries are becoming more ethnically diverse. The main reason is rising levels of immigration. The flow of people across borders can stimulate innovation, dynamism, and creativity, as well as help reduce the social and economic effects of declining birthrates.




We can easily identify three potentially critical independent variables that influence Canadian foreign policy and provide the raison d’être:

(1) changes in the ethnic mosaic in Canada;

(2) government responsiveness to demographic changes;

(3) influences derived from domestic politics.




If we have to characterize the underlying normative approach that dominates, it is that Canada must adhere to a “realist,” national interest-based foreign policy, rather than one based on idealism and values associated with particular ethnic, regional or national groups. It is an accepted fact, though often unexpressed  that the growing diversity in Canada is pushing, or potentially pushing, foreign policy makers into approaches and decisions that may be contrary to the broad national interests that affect all Canadians.




The domestic influences of the diasporas are especially important because of the regional and municipal concentrations of members of these immigrant groups. Although their influence over local elections is growing, it has not yet changed the foreign policy of Canada in significant ways.




However, if we move down a level to the para-diplomacy at the provincial and metropolitan levels, the potential influence of these groups is much greater. Other factors brought into play include the unity of the diaspora groups. For example we have analyze and  discusses the role of unity among Muslim Canadians and the lack of a critical approach to broad-ranging issues, including the democratization of their countries of origin. Rather than entering into serious dialog on issues such as Palestinian statehood there is a tendency to rely on uncritical polemics and unfounded assumptions.




Democratic influences on Canadian foreign policy are quite limited because of the heavy dependence on the relationship with the United States and the demands of election-focused party politics. They emphasize the emergence of a neo-pluralistic perspective, which has helped insert domestic diversity issues into foreign aid and also as an intervening variable in the Canada—US policy dialog. Coupled with the demands of increasing globalism, the constraints become almost insurmountable.




 In today’s world, people might have differing views not only on how the so-called establishment should reach out to minorities, but even on whether an establishment still exists and whom it comprises multiculturalism as the primary challenge, but made a distinction between “mild” and “militant” forms of multiculturalism, noting that each held radically different consequences for the nation. I agree with the mild form, which I see as  calling attention to neglected groups, themes, and viewpoints, and redressing a shameful imbalance in the treatment of minorities. Importantly, this form operates within the context of a “shared culture.




But the militant form of multiculturalism is disquieting, he said, because it dismisses the idea of a common culture, rejects the goal of assimilation, and celebrates the immutability of diverse and separate communities. I vehementaly object to multicultural education if it meant that schools teach history and literature for “therapeutic reasons,” to make students feel good about their ancestors, but at the same time celebrate hardened ethnic loyalties. This practice, will lead to a fragmented nation. While rational multi-culturalism is an intelligent response to racism, he said, “hard” multiculturalism is an imprudent response. The real problem is the racism of the white majority, which slams doors in the faces of those who wish to join the mainstream in the country.




There is an urgent need to take a comprehensive view of the issue. Any delay shall be extremely harmful.

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NFCA HUNGER STRIKERS EVICTED FROM QUEENS PARK as DANGER to the Social System

StarBuzz Weekly, Toronto-

On the fourth day of the “Fast Unto Death” three more senior volunteer hunger strikers of NFCA –Keshubhai Chaudhry, Dr. Bikram Lamba, and Jasbir Singh Namdhari collapsed and were rushed to hospitals. Dr. Lamba and Jasbir Singh refused medical assistance.


Thereafter the head of the Operations of Queens Park directed that this democratic protest is a danger to society and they were directed to leave the grounds.


This violation of human rights is a clear example of the authorities adopting draconian measures.


Incidentally there has been no response from the authorities. Dr. Bikram Lamba  declared that the struggle would continue despite all the repressive actions adopted by the Government.


Fifteen people are on hunger strike since June 13^th at Queen’s Park to protest against the increasing gas prices and high auto-insurance rates.  It is amazing that Hon. Dalton McGuinty seems to have gone deaf-mute and is not responding to the democratic protest in a civilized manner.  Rather there seems to be a reign of terror and a consistent denial of human rights.  Does the Dalton McGuinty government hope to rule like the French Bourbon Kings or like the former Indian Mugal Emperors?


Since all Canadians are affected by high gas prices and the exorbitant auto-insurance tariff,  the government should have  at least discussed the issue and show some inclination to sort out the matter; but the only action they have taken is to be grossly inattentive and repressive. The people are asking Whither Ontario?
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No appropriate positive response from Ontario Government on the - 20 Volunteers Continue to Hunger Strike on 14TH June At Queen’s Park for the demands of all regarding the unresonable hike in insurance premiums and gas prices

20 Volunteers Continue to Hunger Strike on 14th June At Queen’s Park
StarBuzz Weekly, Toronto-

National Forum for Civic Action of Canada (NFCA) after having waited for over three weeks for getting appropriate positive response from Ontario Government started its hunger strike for getting their demands redressed.


The demands are:


1. There be an immediate across the table cut back on insurance premiums by 25%
2.      That the Government orders immediately caps on the premiums and directs the insurance companies not to increase the premiums, which are economically stifling.
3.      That a watch dog organization be set up to advice regarding the increase, if any, in future. This committee should have equal representation from the Insurance companies, the Government and the public.
4.      That the HST on Gas be is removed immediately.
5.      Immediate control of prices by delinking them from international prices, and by making the gas companies absorb some costs.
6.      Bring down the prices to Nov. 2010 level.


The response of the Finance Minister was to quote from the letter submitted to the Premier was “a typical reply that aims to delay and not address the issue”, and that “The response of Hon. Duncan was a classic example of dilatory political tactic unworthy of a Minister of crown and barely referred to the demands. “


NFCA after a long wait feels that the Government of Ontario is purposely being evasive and does not desire to address the issue.


As the demands have not been met, and there is no positive response, the volunteers of NFCA were forced to go on hunger strike from 13^th June, and NFCA says that onus of this rests entirely on the premier and Government of Ontario that is insensitive to their needs.


 NFCA has been acting in a very responsible manner and has given the Government ample notice, but the response has been evasive.  The authorities did not think it appropriate even to have discussion on these major issues.


All efforts having failed, the hunger strike started with 15 volunteers, including women, on 13 June, 2011 at 9:30 am.


On 14^th there shall be 20 volunteers, including 3 women and 4 from day 1, who shall continue this hunger strike.  It shall continue in this manner until some reasonable relief is assured to the suffering public.
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NFCA’s OPEN LETTER TO PREMIER: HUNGER STRIKE TILL DEATH

StarBuzz Weekly, Toronto-

National Forum for Civic Action of Canada has sent an open letter to the Premier Hon. Dalton McGuinty to take effective measures to lower against gas prices and reduce auto insurance or face hunger strike to death. The volunteers of NFCA, including some women have decided to embark on this action because of inaction by the Government.



NFCA regrets that the response of Hon Dwight Duncan has been to gloss over the real issues and is just dilatory in nature. NFCA has requested the premier to take effective steps, so as to avoid any unseemly situation.


The letter clearly states that the onus and responsibility for any such eventuality shall rest entirely with the Government.


NFCA as a responsible organization had given sufficient notice and also extended it to enable the government to take effective steps, but the government has failed to response.


NFCA has also called upon the leaders of opposition to take up this issue of prime importance.


The demands of NFCA are:


1.      There be an immediate across the table cut back on insurance premiums by 25%
2.      That the Government orders immediately caps the premiums and directs the insurance companies not to increase the premiums, which are economically stifling.
3.      That a watch dog organization be set up to advice the increase, if any in future. This committee should have equal representation from the Insurance companies, Government and public.
4.      That the HST on Gas is removed immediately
5.      Immediate control prices by delinking them from the international prices, and by making the gas companies absorb some costs.
6.      Bring down the prices to Nov. 2010 level




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