With all the talk of immigrant parents, going on
here, I wouldn't mind seeing a poll (and a thread) created that asks something along the lines of:
born in Canada
Not born in Canada
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White
asian
indian
black
NA indian
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Of course it would have to be the type where you can pick more than one option. If mods are feeling up to it you could even add countries of origin for families like:
West Euro (Ital, Ger, Fr, Sp, Eng etc)
East Euro (Ukr, Pol, Russia, etc)
Middle East
Africa
South America
South Asia (India, Phillipines etc)
Asia (China, Japan etc)
Australia
other
I'm always curious of the makeup of CP. Also depending on how big the poll can be mods could add something like (as an extension of the born in Canada/Not born in Canada):
Parents are:
1st generation
2nd generation
3rd generation
more than 3rd Generation Canadian
Just an idea.
One other thing, whilst browsing old CP threads it appears that at one time making Polls was given to all users and ended, from what I can tell, less than a day later. Obviously with that experiment failing horribly mods probably don't want to outright do it again. However, I was wondering if it is an all or nothing kind of thing. Maybe if only "experienced" posters were given polling power with a limit of one poll per week or something like that. I know that might be hard to enforce but if only a certain number of posters had it, it would be easier to enforce.
