Canadians want limits on accommodating minorities - SES Research/Polic

[betsy]

"By significant majorities in Canada as a whole, and by overwhelming majorities in Quebec, Canadians and Quebecers declare limits to reasonable accommodation.

When asked whether it was reasonable to accommodate religious and cultural minorities, or whether immigrants should fully adapt to culture in Canada, only 18 percent of respondents said reasonable accommodation best reflected their personal views, as opposed to 53 percent who thought immigrants should fully adapt (21 percent who agreed with neither statement).

In Quebec, only 5.4 percent of respondents thought reasonable accommodation reflected their views, while fully 76.9 percent thought immigrants should fully adapt.

Interestingly, the parts of Canada with fewer new Canadians were more likely to support accommodation. Leaders from across Canada should be watching the developments in Quebec, because they may well be a precursor of things to come in other parts of Canada."

http://www.nikonthenumbers.com/topics/show/49

I think people are beginning to see the hole we've dug ourselves in. ...how impossible it is to accomodate and please everyone.

It may seem such a wonderful idea - perhaps inspired by the CBC's choice for best song of the century, John Lenon's IMAGINE -

but it should have just remained there...where it truly belongs: in our fantasy.

I suspect people are getting fatigued and swamped by the back-to-back high-profile demands (the latest being the veil election controversy). They're simply fed up! Who wouldn't be? I see these demands as just the beginning of a long string of un-ending demands from every corner.

Resources and energies should be more concentrated in getting immigrants to adapt to their new country.

With this new information about the sentiments of the majority, especially in Quebec, I think some changes might be looming up ahead.

Edited September 26, 2007 by betsy

[jennie]

"By significant majorities in Canada as a whole, and by overwhelming majorities in Quebec, Canadians and Quebecers declare limits to reasonable accommodation.

When asked whether it was reasonable to accommodate religious and cultural minorities, or whether immigrants should fully adapt to culture in Canada, only 18 percent of respondents said reasonable accommodation best reflected their personal views, as opposed to 53 percent who thought immigrants should fully adapt (21 percent who agreed with neither statement).

In Quebec, only 5.4 percent of respondents thought reasonable accommodation reflected their views, while fully 76.9 percent thought immigrants should fully adapt.

Interestingly, the parts of Canada with fewer new Canadians were more likely to support accommodation. Leaders from across Canada should be watching the developments in Quebec, because they may well be a precursor of things to come in other parts of Canada."

http://www.nikonthenumbers.com/topics/show/49

I think people are beginning to see the hole we've dug ourselves in. ...how impossible it is to accomodate and please everyone.

It may seem such a wonderful idea - perhaps inspired by the CBC's choice for best song of the century, John Lenon's IMAGINE -

but it should have just remained there...where it truly belongs: in our fantasy.

I suspect people are getting fatigued and swamped by the back-to-back high-profile demands (the lates being the veil election controversy). They're simply fed up! Who wouldn't be? I see it these demands as just the beginning of a long string of of un-ending demands from every corner.

Resources and energies should be more concentrated in getting immigrants to adapt to their new country.

With this new information about the sentiments of the majority, especially in Quebec, I think some changes might be looming up ahead.

This sounds like a roundabout way of espousing discrimination.

Specifically what is it that people are not supposed to do? Wear burkas? Is that it? Is that sum total of this issue?

[betsy]

Is that it? Is that sum total of this issue?

Common sense.

Edited September 26, 2007 by betsy

[Borg]

This sounds like a roundabout way of espousing discrimination.

Specifically what is it that people are not supposed to do? Wear burkas? Is that it? Is that sum total of this issue?

Sum total?

Part of it.

Discrimination is a two way street and don't you forget it jennie. New arrivals give as good as they get. Right or wrong you do not have to be white to be a racist.

While I am sure I will be tracked down and lashed to the triangle for a whipping - Canadians are tired of ethnic ghetttos - created by immigrants not Canada, tired of language issues, tired of deportees disappearing into the wood work, tired of things such as being sued over bacon and so on. Tired of hiring quota and tired of special handling. Tired of que jumpers. Tired of known criminals arriving and declaring sanctuary.

And the beat goes on.

Come here legally - fine and dandy. Leave your old ways and adapt. Do not force Canadians to adapt to you.

Or stay home in the quagmire you and yours created - and now you are so anxious to leave - and recreate in another country.

Borg

[betsy]

Frankly, I suspect that those who purport to speak for the "rights" of minorities or immigrants by making all these ridiculous demands are not speaking for the people (immigrants).

Most of these are coming from Communist or Socialist-leaning acitivists. Or from politicians who try to groom their image by declaring to be the champions for such-and-such! These are the ones who plant the seeds of discontent....to their own advantage, of course!

I would bet that in reality - majority of immigrants couldn't care less about wearing their burkas or washing their feet! They just want to be treated like everybody else!

Edited September 26, 2007 by betsy