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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
These so called advantages were accurate in past decades, but are a little overplayed nowadays.
We don't have any better "shot" than any other Canadian born minority who does well in school and has a good work ethic.
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Once you add all those qualifiers you are almost to the point where your statement is not blatantly false.
Part of the disadvantages that minorities face in Canada is
a) They don't speak the language as well if they were not born here.
b) Their (out of country) education doesn't mean anything here.
c) Racial profiling of banks loaning money for houses in certain areas is influenced by race.
d) Even if they grow up in Canada, they have a much higher chance of growing up in a middle or lower class family/neighborhood, which automatically puts them at a disadvantage later in life.
e) Due to c) and d) they don't have as much access to good schooling, or extracurricular activities.
So if you totally discount the groups of minorities that do have a distinct disadvantage, then you are almost correct in saying that minorities have an equal shot.
Don't worry though, your position that you don't have an advantage is a very common one amongst dominant groups in society, so you are most certainly not along in your opinion. However, the statistics say you are far more wrong than you would like to believe.