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Originally Posted by longsuffering
I don't see anything wrong with hyphenated Canadian, whether it is Chinese-Canadian or Russian-Canadian, etc. That's what multiculturalism is. It becomes a problem when immigrants don't feel the Canadian part.
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it just gets tiresome. if you immigrated from china and you really really need to identify yourself as chinese-canadian....fine. but when your grandparents were the ones that immigrated over and both your parents and you were born here: drop the chinese already, you're canadian just like the rest of us!!
also, only one modifier please. i met someone (born in ontario and has never lived outside of canada) who identified themselves as japanese-chinese-canadian cause one parent immigrated from china and one from japan. where does this end? i'm swedish-german-irish-ukranian-russian-french-english-canadian.
oh yea - and i'll only hang out with other swedish-german-irish-ukranian-russian-french-english-canadians.
which brings me to another thing... i hate hyphenated last names.