I'm multicultural...

[JB Globe]

Well A *POLL* released today says that Canadians believe our countries is born from a catholic and protestant french/english culture which is present. You have trouble noticing it because you ARE Canadian.

If this is the same poll you posted about in the other post today, than it says NOTHING OF THE SORT. Either post the poll or retract this statement.

The student says 'Are you saying that Sikh's haven't worked to build Canada?' and the host cut them off there. Here you have one immigrant from Poland saying he's Canadian, and one person from Canada saying he's a Sikh Indian. What a messed up new way of being we have created.

Why are you threatened by people with dual identities? I for one see nothing destructive about someone being Polish-Canadian or Indo-Canadian. Try as a might, but when I see a Portuguese Flag flying alongside a Candian flag at a house in my neighbourhood on Portugal's national holiday - I don't see something evil and threatening. Maybe it's because I know that when Canada Day rolls around both flags will be Canadian. Maybe it's because I know that most people who celebrate their own ethnic heritege's big days are also likely to hit up Canada Day as well.

Maybe I'm just happy that folks are happy and proud to be Canadian, and I really don't care if, at the same time, they're proud of another part of who they are.

I mean really - if they're proud Canadian citizens, and they contribute to the economy, what is the problem, really?

Canadians are prudish, aloof people who are overly polite yet don't mean it. Canadians generally have a 'lower moral' and don't do what 'feels good'. They want a nanny state and are self hating hypocrits. We don't think for ourselves, but look for a 'God Like' figure to figure things out for us. We're like a bunch of church going Catholics... We really are.

Mike, do you love Canada or not? Are you a proud Canadian or not? Because this makes it seem like you secretly detest this country.

You're all over the place - you say people should adapt to "Canadian culture" then you go on to say you pretty much dislike Canadians in general - aren't Canadians the product of a culture? What does it say about this culture you say everyone should adopt if it produces people you dislike?

And for JC's sake - how small is your world? You dislike Catholics IN GENERAL now?

Wow - you sure picked the best town to live in if you don't like difference . . .

Me I'm American and I even like George Bush. Imagine that!

Okay, now you've gone off your rocker completely - you're calling yourself American and praising America, and you spent most of this post telling us how you want people to stop calling themselves Italian-Canadian and just Canadian?

Which is it?

This is just about the most hypocritical post I've seen in a long while. Is it usually like this? If people just let you talk do you usually shoot yourself in the foot?

I thought you lived in Toronto and were Canadian - now you're American? What's the deal?

[M.Dancer]

A clinical psychiatrist would have a field day here.

[mikedavid00]

Well, what is Mike? Because so far you've only alluded to your vision of Canada being essentially Anglo-Canadian-Protestant culture and nothing else.

But that's the thing. They aren't part of us at all so I'm not including them.

When you hear of the 'Iraqi people' (as we have through the years), no one ever includes the Kurds becuase they are not part of the iraqi people. They just completley segregate themselves and are a burden on Iraq.

This is what is happening in Canada with our immigrants.

[mikedavid00]

I mean really - if they're proud Canadian citizens, and they contribute to the economy, what is the problem, really?

That's just the problem. Most of them don't consider themselves Canadian (as a poll suggests that I've posted before) and many are NOT contributing to the economy (multiple, multiple sats on this one).

You are blindly supporting open borders and are saying we have no problems.

I support work permits and using immigrants to enhance our own lives which is the whole point of immigration. Immigation was never meant to be some sort of feebie and handout. In turn, those that came here get a better life and money to send home.

But we would be talking very small numbers of people each year and these people would be moving to remote parts of Canada to fill labor shortages so the ghettoization would be over.

This is why the US does not have the problems that Canada has. They have a functioning immigration system.

[JB Globe]

That's just the problem. Most of them don't consider themselves Canadian (as a poll suggests that I've posted before) and many are NOT contributing to the economy (multiple, multiple sats on this one).

Mike, you just said that you were American. So please explain to me why I should start caring about what an American thinks of my Canadian immigration system.

This is why the US does not have the problems that Canada has. They have a functioning immigration system.

What planet have you been living on, and do you get Lou Dobbs there?

And since your American vision of what Canada is excludes Quebecois, descendents of Black Loyalists, 1st Nations, and anyone who isn't protestant, I think you're on your own on this one.

Edited September 28, 2007 by JB Globe