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Machjo

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  1. I doubt many 'choose' to not learn English. Studies do show that English spelling is around three times more difficult to learn than those of Finnish, German, and Greek and English overall is around ten times more difficult to learn than Esperanto for instance as a basis for comparison. People understand the importance of English and so do try to learn it; but due to its difficulty, it can take time for them to learn it and so adjusting to work and do business in a language that they already know in the mean time is a natural survival mechanism. Not everyone has the necessary aptitude to learn a difficult language well.
  2. You haven't read much of Toronto's history, have you? Germans originally ploughed what we now call Yonge street. And let's consider Canada's history. Chinuk Wawa served as the dominant auxiliary language in British Columbia until around 1900. Even today, Inuktitut remains the dominant language in Nunavut. So when did English ever serve as the sole language for the whole of Canada?
  3. Then marry within your own race. No one is forcing you to marry outside of your race last I checked.
  4. I wasn't blaming 'whitey' for anything. I'm well aware that plenty of whites are quite welcoming of other races just as some non-whites can be quite prejudiced against whites. I wasn't thinking of whites at all. I was just thinking of you, thinking that maybe you walk around with a Nazi flag pin on your lapel that might explain some of the behaviour towards you? How do you explain that I as a minority white man in my local neighbourhood have generally been well received whereas you appear to have been chased out of every comunity you've ever moved into?
  5. Some Chinese even choose to learn Korean. Go figure eh. And why do you care so much about race?
  6. I'll let you know when things change, 'kay? I imagine though that as long as I avoid buring crosses on neighbours' lawns, I should be okay.
  7. Now I do agree with cities putting a stop to suburban sprawl. We should focus instead on cities growing up, not out. But beyond that though, I see nothing wrong with people moving close to their language community. That's quite normal in fact.
  8. Do you have a link to back up your claims of the Korean community systematically excluding whites and of Koreans and Chinese hating one another? I've seen Korean restaurants in the heart of the Chinese community and Chinese friends and I have visited Korean restaurants run by Koreans. Don't assume that what's going on in your local community is happening across Canada. If that's happening in your local community, speak up against at local city council meetings.
  9. Interesting. I react the same way but more related to language and religion than to anything else. I prefer people with whom I share a common language and who hold to a higher character. For example, the smell of alcohol or tobacco or marijuana on a person will certainly repel me far more than his skin colour ever would.
  10. Indeed they do. But if you got to know them better, it usually had more to do with a preference for a particular language than for a particular race, ethnicity, or nationality, interestingly enough.
  11. So who's responsible for that segregation: the non-Anglos who welcome you into their community or the Anglos who choose to leave?
  12. Are we talking about states or individuals? Yes, Canada, like Singapore and a few other countries around the world, enjoys a reputation for being welcoming of foreigners whereas many 'Muslim' states tend to be much less tolerant. That does not necessarily reflect the individual level though. Welcoming and bigotted people come in every form. It's worth noting too that the desire for ethnic exclusivity is not unique to immigrant communities. Just look at how English and French Canadians like to segregate themselves too.
  13. Prejudice exists in every community. So far though, I've been quite well received in my 'ethno-burb.'
  14. I live in a part of Scarborough that's majority Chinese. When I lived in Ottawa, it was majority English. When I lived in Gatineau, it was majority French. In Ontario alone, we have English secular, French secular, English Catholic, and French Catholic school boards and one English Protestant school board. Quebec has French and English school boards. Why do Anglo-Canadians criticize others for forming their own neighbourhoods when English Canadians do the exact same thing. We sometimes hear of white flight, which even raises the question of whether English self-segregation in fact creates these neighbourhoods and Anglo-Canadians leave to create their own homogeneous neighbourhoods. By the way, I'm a white French Canadian living in Scarborough. If I adopted the mentality of the average Ango, I'd be moving out of there so I could live with 'my own kind' and then I'd complain about Scarborough being too Chinese when it's probably so because too many Anglos didn't like living with Chinese and so moved out. Don't criticize others for doing exactly what you yourself do.
  15. Ethnic traditions have changed throughout history. It's one of the few constants. Why why should shifting traditions surprise me?
  16. No need to subsidize. Just make the carbon tax a tax shift rather than a tax increase. This would result in tax reductions in all other industries to compensate.
  17. You just proved my point. Even though most of December is not a statutory month-long holiday, people still manage to celebrate it. So why do they need Christmas as a statutory holiday to celebrate that too? In fact, it's somewhat insulting to Christians. It's like saying that they couldn't find the time to celebrate it without entrenching it into the law even though people still find time to celebrate halloween and other religious holidays.
  18. And I remember reading an exception for the elderly too. I don't profess Islam anyway; but I can imagine that a hard manual labourer would need to think seriously about adopting Islam if it didn't allow him to eat even in moderation in the daytime during Ramadan.
  19. Perhaps in hard manual labour; but then I'd imagine that the Qur'an would allow them to eat at least in moderation. I'd have to refer to the Qur'an again for this, but I can't imagine that no exception would have been made for such a situation.
  20. Why thank Christianity for the government telling you what day to take off? Why not just guarantee so many days off work every year and let the individual worker decide in consultation with his employer what day he wants off? Would that not be even better in a supposedly-free society? What business is it of the government what day I get off?
  21. People celebrate all kinds of non-statutory holidays, so what says that different people can't celebrate Christmas, Solstice Festival, and other holidays too. With different people celebrating different holidays, team work could ensure we cover them all. Let the Christians celebrate Christmas to cover that base, and the rest of us can cover the other bases.
  22. Not entirely. Let's take the UK as an example. The official state religion (i.e. the established church) of the UK is the Anglican Faith, so it would make perfect sense for at least non-essential government workers to get the day off on Christian holidays. Even though Canada has no official religion, the Christian Faith comes closest to that with the Separate schol system, so it could make sense in Canada too. But it should not spill over into the private sector. That said, I suppose that the state could make a law recognizing the right of any person who works in a non-essential serive to have his religious holy days off. This would give Christians who work in non-essential services holiday priority on those days.
  23. Is a common day off really the epitome of a common culture? How will we ever integrate shift workers?
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