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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I thought we made you guys live in Richmond?  |
Cultural enclaves like that can also develop from groups moving to places for better business and real-estate opportunities so it's not necessarily unhealthy. In the cases of Richmond, Markham, etc. wealthy and successful immigrant populations flocked to suburbs where it was more affordable to build new housing, malls, office parks, etc. to develop new businesses that catered to their communities there because the traditional Canadian downtown Chinatowns were old, expensive, required too much work to rejuvenate, and did not provide avenues for affordable/manageable growth, expansion, and housing.
The problems with reserves are they are artificial preserves mandated by treaty in areas and locations where there are no economic opportunities or economic output, making them sink holes for public funding and social assistance.
If the inhabitants refuse to leave, that is their right but you could also point out the fact that their ancestors first came to North America over the land-bridge for specific reasons - following migrating animals into new lands of opportunity. Staying in one stagnating place that is propped up by the dollars of other taxpayers is unhealthy and leads to these sorts of racial prejudices and malcontent.