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Originally Posted by FanningTheFlames
This thread is a PC sausage fest.
These people live in Canada. They were born here, grew up here, and lived here their whole lives. They, early on, formed notions of what the community they belonged to was, and saw that definition change after it had set in.
These are people wary of holders of "passports of convenience", because the one they hold is the only one they want or need. They don't hold a Canadian passport because it is useful to them, but because it is who they are. The only hyphenated adjective before Canadian that means anything to them is "Western" or "Eastern".
They grow increasingly weary of those who put down Canada but live here because they "prefer" it somehow, and are perplexed by the attitude that one's mere presence is enriching to Canada. Lastly, they don't understand why those who come here can proudly continue to identify with the culture they left behind and, at the same time, equate those same feelings in the native-born of this land to a kind of fascism.
Where are they? They are your neighbors.
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but what you are talking about are the sort of people who make the relevant, fairly reasonable comments on CBC. I have no problem with them. I have met them, they have met me. I have liked them and they have liked me. Their concern is not the colour of my skin, or where my lineage traces back to. Their concern is simply about real effects this may have on Canada. I repeat, I have no problems with them.
I am talking about those who specifically have a problem with a Canada that is not as white as it used to be. As I pointed out in the OP, nothing in the article says that immigrants will be at 30% of the population. It says visible minorities will. Last time I checked, a heck of a lot of visible minorities have been here for generations. Including myself.
Plenty of people have legit arguments against keeping immigration levels as high as they are. Including some that you cite above. None,
none of these legit arguments say anything whatsoever about a rise in non-whites. The notion that having non-white skin says anything about how much you care about Canada is absolutely laughable. As I hope you agree, notions about a white country and preservation of the white race are absolutely imbecilic on every level to anyone but a nutcase white supremacist.
It's cute that you try to suggest that I put Canada down, but I never said anything of the sort. I said I was sad that Canadians were not as engaged in their culture and history, and that I felt we lacked real vibrancy. I'm doing the very opposite of putting Canada down. I'm saying how wonderful I think it is, and that I wish more people realized that. The notion that I need a Canadian passport is utterly laughable. I have a Swiss passport by birth to a Swiss mother. Do you have any clue what that means, the benefits it offers? I might rightly be called a Swiss citizen of convience (if I 'used' the country in any way, but I don't, I use only my Canadian passport), but I think that citizenship is my birth right. My life simply worked out in the way that my family preferred to settle in my father's home turf (Canada, regardless of what you may be suggesting) than my mother's. Despite your repeated attempts to link non-whiteness with first-generation recent immigration, specifically with that which treats Canada as a doormat, it is just not the case.