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Originally Posted by opendoor
It's funny, when foreign people move here they're immigrants and should wholly adopt a North American lifestyle; but when white westerners move somewhere else they're "ex-pats" and no one bats an eye when they don't take on the customs and traditions of the country they're living in.
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You know what Phil Dunphy says...
Obviously I am joking and my original comment was made in jest of the OP - While I do believe immigrants in Canada should better adopt to their new home's existing culture and customs, in no way does that translate to "like white people did".
I fully agree that if I was to move to China I would adopt their customs and cultures as best I could, and would actively immerse myself in their culture so as to assimilate as best as I could.
I prefer the American melting pot approach to the Canadian isolation (call it multiculturalism, it amounts to isolation).
Obviously tone doesn't work well in text, so there, that's my actual opinion.