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Originally Posted by Thor
My biggest question, as a liberal, I am for immigration, freedom of religion.
However, I am not for immigration that ignores rule of law and refuse to accept our enlightenment values to live and make a life in the west.
So how do you support immigration, support for immigrants, when some of them refuse to accept the liberal values of equality, LGBT rights, etc..
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I much prefer Canada's approach, Thor. Persons immigrating to Canada only need to conform to our laws (aka, some of the violent religious acts etc), the same laws that everyone has to abide by (or face the consequences).
I'm strongly against trying to strong arm people into accepting their new cultural norms. As an immigrant you're free to come to Canada and think and support whatever the hell you want, just like any other Canadian.
Then the hope is that Canada's progressive society starts rubbing off on immigrants from more conservative countries and religions, which in my experience, it does to varying degrees. I believe this is something that Canada has done well with.
I know it's very unfortunate that some citizens will suffer from backwards views from their own families/communities after immigrating to a new, more progressive families. But I just see that as a role of society itself to be accepting and make new immigrants look around and go "wow, you know what? We're Canadian now and a lot of our beliefs and values are mega out of place here, and Canadian culture is so accepting and warm, let's be more like that".