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Originally Posted by GirlySports
You have to determine where your starting point is. In a country once dominated entirely by whites, blacks had 0 cents to every white dollar so now 6 cents can be seen a progress. Should it be more? Sure but how is that outcome achieved. Blacks started poor and Hispanics come into the country poor. Asians come into the country rich through immigration so that's not a fair comparison.
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That is a fair comment re immigrants. It isn’t surprising that, generally speaking, immigrants will be less wealthy than people who were born in state x. However, in Canada and the United States, two of the most marginalized groups (blacks in the US and indigenous persons in Canada) have been there for nearly as long or much longer than whites.
Also, presumably, our goal, idealistic though it may be, is that children born in Canada have the same opportunities for success regardless of how long their families have resided here?