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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
My response to situations like this is:
Diversity makes us stronger, or
A little diversity never hurt anyone.
Also tell the oldies that:
"Just think oldie, my taxes are going to pay for your pension"
I have no tolerance for racism, but I also have very low tolerance for claims that Canada isn't a tolerant country or that we need to bend over backwards for someone who looks for oppression when they get out of bed in the morning.
Canada is one of the most tolerant countries on the planet - you aren't going to find much better.
While there are idiots out there (like the people described in this thread), not everyone in Canada is out there to screw someone because they look different.
I'm a big fan of increased immigration and especially skilled labour. I think we need to do much, much more of it.
I had a similar situation to the old people described in the first post at the Save On Foods by my house a couple of weeks ago. An older couple, in their 80s were in line behind me. The lines there are always long so you sit back and wait. There were three foreign workers at the tills being trained and they were black guys. This old guy starts talking to me and I speak back to him politely. Then suddenly - through HIS THICK ACCENT - he says really loudly "it's taking too long because there's too many BLACKS!". The entire store stops and looks over. I wanted to punch the in the face. Myself and a younger woman responded that diversity is a good thing and then literally turned our backs on him and made a big point of doing so. I'd have had no problem if the managers had asked him to leave.
The irony is that clearly this old fart was an immigrant himself.
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Wow! In my opinion..as an American originally from New Jersey but living in Pantherland..all I can say is BE PROUD TO BE A CANADIAN!!!! To use a generarlity that was used (inadvertently????) in a racist context YOU PEOPLE are awesome!!! I'm ready to run away with Fatso or the Oilfan and I dont even know who they are. I meets lots of "old people" here obviously, many "snowbirds" from Canada. People like to make jokes about the heavy French Canadian men wearing thongs to the beach but in general I find the Canadian oldsters to be so much cooler..more intelligent, open -minded, caring..in general a different attitude towards humanity than the average American. Even though most people wouldnt consider South Florida "The South" due to the large amoount of transplants like myself, there was still an incredible amount of racism here compared to NJ. I used to get beaten half to death by the black girls in high school because there ,along with what I hate to stereotype as White trash, they were the majority. It broke my heart ,not because of the physical pain, but because I knew why they did it and actually felt bad for them! It was a pre-emptive strike on their part..I had tons of black friends in NJ. It was such a different world. You like to think it 's changed...what a world. LOVE Y
OU GUYS!!!