Minorities and polling stations

[Concerned]

My concern is aggressive foreigners who come to this country with their politcal baggage thinking they have the smarts to dismantle years of hard work achieved by native Canadians to suit their own personal goals and objectives.

My post simply reflects cultural activities that are undoing the goodness of a civilized, organized Canada transforming this established country seen as a no name country up for grabs under the guise of some kind of republic --a Liberal creation.

Leafless, you are imagining all kinds of boogeymen on the streets of Canada, and then generalizing your paranoia to anyone you see who doesn't look like you. Your original post that started this thread was about going to a polling station and seeing people you knew nothing about, noticing that they had a different skin tone than you, and assuming they were in cahoots with every other dark skinned person to take over the country. You can't see that there is inherent racism in that.

I'm not denying that there is crime in our streets, and a disproportionate amount of it is committed by minorities. That doesn't make all minorities responsible for the crimes, any more than you are responsible for the crimes of Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olson, just because they were white.

I agree with Melanie here.....Mel, do you think that part of the problem is with our immigration system? It is unfortunate for all minorities when a few bad apples give people like Leafless amunition for racist comments. But it's unfortunate that criminals be allowed to enter this country at all, and/or that deportation is not abrupt when new immigrants contribute to crime, gangs etc. I think the problem may lie with an immigration/ court system that allows criminals to stay in the country. Criminals support criminals after all and if we weeded them out from the start, I think there would be far fewer of them around.

What is sad is that so called "native Canadians" (now there's a good one coming from a caucasion male)...can dwell on the few problems we actually have in this country relating to gangs etc. and who do not embrace cultural diversity and its benefits to Canadian society.

Concerned,

Well the sky may have fallen, because I actually back you 100% on this one ( ).

Phew

[tml12]

My concern is aggressive foreigners who come to this country with their politcal baggage thinking they have the smarts to dismantle years of hard work achieved by native Canadians to suit their own personal goals and objectives.

My post simply reflects cultural activities that are undoing the goodness of a civilized, organized Canada transforming this established country seen as a no name country up for grabs under the guise of some kind of republic --a Liberal creation.

Leafless, you are imagining all kinds of boogeymen on the streets of Canada, and then generalizing your paranoia to anyone you see who doesn't look like you. Your original post that started this thread was about going to a polling station and seeing people you knew nothing about, noticing that they had a different skin tone than you, and assuming they were in cahoots with every other dark skinned person to take over the country. You can't see that there is inherent racism in that.

I'm not denying that there is crime in our streets, and a disproportionate amount of it is committed by minorities. That doesn't make all minorities responsible for the crimes, any more than you are responsible for the crimes of Paul Bernardo and Clifford Olson, just because they were white.

I agree with Melanie here.....Mel, do you think that part of the problem is with our immigration system? It is unfortunate for all minorities when a few bad apples give people like Leafless amunition for racist comments. But it's unfortunate that criminals be allowed to enter this country at all, and/or that deportation is not abrupt when new immigrants contribute to crime, gangs etc. I think the problem may lie with an immigration/ court system that allows criminals to stay in the country. Criminals support criminals after all and if we weeded them out from the start, I think there would be far fewer of them around.

What is sad is that so called "native Canadians" (now there's a good one coming from a caucasion male)...can dwell on the few problems we actually have in this country relating to gangs etc. and who do not embrace cultural diversity and its benefits to Canadian society.

Concerned,

Well the sky may have fallen, because I actually back you 100% on this one ( ).

Phew

I was glad to get that monkey off my back too...

[seabee]

Traditional marriage was "for better and for worse", "till death do us part".

Should SSM be banned, to allow only mixed-sex marriage, it would only be logical that divorce be again illegal.

[Conservative1]

I don't know about you but the polling station I voted in was staffed by a disproportionate number of ethnic Canadians.

In fact I felt uncomfortable to the point I was not sure this was Canada. In fact if this is the type of representation we can expect to receive in the future I might not vote at all.

Did you experience this?

I know that this is a quote from way back in the beginning of this thread, but I felt i just had to comment.

I have never been one to understand the whole "forced" equal representation debate, wheather it be in the workplace or in the government. It is the best person, or possibly willing person in your case, for the job that's it. I believe in measures to eliminate discrimination, but I do not believe in selecting people based on the colour of their skin. Maybe there was no white people volunteering, or maybe as some were suggesting in the beginning of the thread, once a dominant group was apparent others left in dismay, in which case it is the fault of the people that left, not the people who stayed on as voulunteers.

I can't believe that this would really cause any concern or debate. As long as the ballots where counted fairly who cares.

[geoffrey]

Traditional marriage was "for better and for worse", "till death do us part".

Should SSM be banned, to allow only mixed-sex marriage, it would only be logical that divorce be again illegal.

Good idea. It should be outside of situations of abuse or infidelity.

People too caught up with themselves to make things work need a little kick in the pants every once in awhile.