OftenWrong

What the hell are you talking about?

Such attempts to categorize people into neat little boxes inevitably becomes a grotesque oversimplification.

That doesn't necessarily mean they are in all-white street gangs. According to the data given, the majority of gang members are non-white by about 3:1.

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Fly in the leftist ointment

I know who it was, I can read and comprehend. His response was an answer to your question, and not actually about you. Let me help you a little... The nature of domestic violence (in Iran) is complicated by both a national culture and authoritative state that support control, oppression and violence against women. Domestic Violence in Iran It's the same patriarchy that exists, culturally and legally, across the whole Middle East. You have tried to disassociate the two, and by this post are proven to have utterly failed. There is no disconnect between a culture and a law.

Plenty of things can happen immediately, like the stock market, investors moving their funds to a different place, employers making announcements that what they're doing is in support of the new administration's direction. Confidence alone can accomplish quite a lot. But there is more than just simply confident reactions happening. One of Trumps primary themes is to get manufacturers to move jobs back to America. Several companies came forward with announcements to that effect. Example- The chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said his company could quickly move production of Ram heavy-duty pickup trucks to Michigan from Mexico if President Donald J. Trump's "America First" economic plan provides enough incentives. "Properly motivated, it could be executed very quickly by FCA," possibly by 2019 or 2020, Sergio Marchionne told analysts during a conference call to discuss the company's record financial results for 2016. Simple question- If the past two months had been a complete shit-show for the economy, would the news be otherwise? Would that be considered the fault of Donald Trump? Why yes. Yes it would.

No, the answer to what you asked was given in that one. You took it personally and missed what he's actually saying.

Plenty of evidence available, and some was given to you. You are either not reading it or perhaps you simply refuse. Which is it?

Both Canada and the United States identified Iran as the worlds foremost sponsor of terrorism. The culture in Iran is absolutely barbaric, as demonstrated. That, in addition to US concerns about the quality of security information for people coming from that country is good enough for me to justify a travel ban. Are you of the type that has to wait for something really bad to happen before you are satisfied?

We are talking about the culture where they come from, and problems that arise when they bring it with them. Assimilation is the key thing that's needed.

When you come from a culture that chops people's heads off in public stadiums, or right in the streets, for committing perceived "moral offences" against Allah, it's not an excuse. Whenever executions are carried out publicly in Iran, children are often among the spectators. Iranian journalist Mokhtar Khandani said, "In Kermanshah, where I reside, I see in many places that street executions are carried out. At such venues, unfortunately I see a lot of children who are there and witness the scene. In the eyes of some children, it might seem like a game." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_executions_in_Iran This is a culture where brutality is completely normalized. You are however free to make excuses for them...

From the link- "We came and we became Americans." Assimilated into the mainstream US culture, which is not difficult for Irish to do.

Let's talk about more important things than the interpretation of president Trump's symbols of punctuation. @kimmy asked what accomplishments president Donald Trump has made in terms of the US economy. - U.S. employers added jobs beyond expectations in both January (238,000) and February (235,000), with the unemployment rate falling to 4.7% and wages growing 2.8%. According to Bloomberg, America’s labor market is getting better “by any measure”. – Manufacturing is at its most robust since 1984. The Philly Fed Index, a survey of how well manufacturers are doing, hit its highest level since 1984. – Small and medium businesses are confident about the future. The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index is at its highest level since 2004. Economic confidence is surging. – The stock market keeps topping record highs. The Dow closed above 20,000 for the first time ever days after Trump’s inauguration and hasn’t stopped rising since. The Dow has surged more than 2500 points since Trump was elected – a 12 per cent spike. – Samsung is moving jobs back to the U.S. as a result of Trump’s election. The technology giant will invest $300 million in expanding U.S. production facilities. – Exxon moving jobs back to the U.S. as a result of Trump’s election. Exxon will spend $20 billion over 10 years on 11 plants along the Gulf Coast, creating a whopping 45,000 jobs for American workers. – Fiat will invest $1 billion in two U.S. factories. Fiat Chrysler is set to invest $1 billion in two factories in Toledo and Detroit, an expansion that will create 2,000 jobs. Also interesting note about security: – Illegal immigration from Mexico is down 40 per cent in Trump’s first month. Border crossings have already dropped by 40 per cent, according to the DHS as Trump moves forward with his campaign promise to build a wall.

Right wingers understand the problem Trump is having with certain parts of the media, the parts who can't understand what is meant unless explained to them in the absolute simplest way, who seek to make an issue out of every quotation, comma, question mark. The leftist media seeks to make America under president Trump obsessed with these minutia, by inflating everything to the point of national emergency. Many people though are smarter than this. Eventually fatigue sets in, people know they're being conned by media like CNN. What's amusing is that under president Obama, the GOP was accused of being non-cooperative and biased, to the point the president could not get any work done. Now the Democrats are guilty of the same thing.

My view is it's a cultural problem, NOT skin colour, not nationality necessarily,and not spiritualism. If you read what I said, multiculturalism not only fails us, it fails the immigrants as well. Therefore I accept that immigrants could live among us, -any immigrants- provided that we help them integrate. That's what we need to do. We've done a poor job of it because of misguided concerns about "racism".

Note where I said "My view is..." Also in case you read that too quickly I said "That's fine, except...". Italians, Portuguese, Germans are westernized. Their nations laws based on Christianity thanks to the old Holy Roman Empire. Their attitude toward women etc. in their homeland very similar to Canada's.

Add the numbers up this way friend- Demographic of gang members in Toronto 23% "White" 76 % "Non white"

What we should do is what we are doing right now, talk about it. My view is that multiculturalism sounded like a good idea. It was based on western concept of live and let live. What's happened though is diverse cultures did not share and rejoice in one another. Immigrants naturally concentrate into separate groups. It should be a no-brainer that some people from a foreign country, who only speak a foreign language will find it much easier to live among their own 'kind', like in a little Italy or what have you. That's fine, except when we bring in people whose culture is really different. In fact what happens is they become "disenfranchised" from any sort of national identity. In a certain way it is a disadvantage economically. If you think of the west as "white people doing well", and non-whites not so well, they are not well accepted, not engaged. Multiculturalism failed them as well.

Sad but true, and this reminds me of the female actress from Pakistan who was openly critical of the way women are treated there, and was consequently murdered by her own brother.

It means the place is crawling with scumbags. The disturbing trend is they're mostly non-white. Here is a cite for you: Youth from lower-income families are more likely to self-identify as gang members, but membership cuts across lower, middle and upper income categories. One study found that although Black, South Asian and Hispanic youth in Toronto are more likely to report gang activity than youth of other ethnicities, 27% of criminal youth gang members self-identify as white (followed by 23% Black, 3% Aboriginal, 18% South Asian, 17% Asian, 5% Middle Eastern and 7% Hispanic). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Toronto Hence it's not a poverty issue, but one in which various separate groups have difficulty identifying with our cultural values and laws. Instead they choose to live in a separate sub-culture of their own, among people from their home lands, according to their customs. In fact multiculturalism is a failure for this very reason.

It's a fair question. I will try to provide the answer for you- In 2012, Flynn got the biggest promotion available to a military intelligence guy: director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon’s in-house intelligence agency. President Obama personally appointed Flynn to the job, and tasked him with reforming the agency. http://www.vox.com/2016/7/9/12129202/michael-flynn-vice-president-donald-trump Seems this Flynn guy has been advising presidents for a while.

The comment was in regards to whether multiculturalism is working in Canada. No one said anything about scary.

Answers to your questions can be found here-

It's easy to blame the west, and it feeds to one's self-loathing complex. However it is a really simple-minded view, IMO. You might recall things like the cold war and intense competition among global powers to control the resources of foreign, undeveloped lands. Various places around the world are viewed as "strategic locations" for this power struggle, nothing more nothing less. It is not possible for the west to just sit back and let things take their own course. As soon as they do, the "bad guys" will move right in, in no time. By and large most people would agree that they'd rather be ruled by outsiders from the west than by the likes of the USSR or China.