Hey, I wasn't the one talking about how culturally vapid Canadians are, PyramidofMars, you were. And that's what bothered me the most. No fricking crap we don't have Roman ampitheatres in Canada. You must be some kind of history major to have figured that out.
I don't mind immigrants who make this country better. What I do mind are those who come with selfish intentions (I.e. with the plan to send their money back to the "homeland") or bringing their old world animosities with them.
For the record, I agree with you about racial supremacism. It's a form of extreme nationalism that should be shunned in a multi-cultural society. But I think most of those comments you read were from pretty normal people.
In a well-known study, immigrant families take 3 to 4 generations to integrate. The people who arrive don't want to fully integrate because that would basically be like giving up a piece of their soul. Still, they adapt as best they can and their children grow up in the new culture, go to school, get jobs, and occasionally visit their by now distant relatives in the homeland. By the third generation, the children consider themselves wholly as members of the society to which they belong.
The first-generation immigrants can sometimes be pretty vocal about how much better their first country was, I understand, but don't start a thread purportedly about white-supremacists and then turn around and say Canadians have nothing to brag about. It just looks bad.
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