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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I think you underestimate the massive lack of assimilation in immigrant areas in Vancouver in the 50's and 60', German's had their own banks, bakeries retirement homes all centered around the Victoria Drive area, Italians had the drive, black Americans lived off Chinatown, these communities were just as vast as our current migrant population and unlike today most were not educated nor spoke English, if anything is likely todays migrants will assimilate faster
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Doesn't that sort of line up with what I'm saying? During those periods, the ratio of immigrants to Canadian born citizens was really high, and a bunch of ethnic enclaves formed and grew. If you maintain those rates, those things get bigger and bigger and indefinitely delay cultural assimilation of some portion of the population.
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Originally Posted by SebC
Even with low immigration rates, what immigrants there are would likely to tend to concentrate themselves in specific areas for language, cultural, and financial reasons. And these concentrations allow for neighbourhoods to have their own cultural identities, which I actually enjoy exploring.
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Yes, and we get a ton of the "Happy Medium" here in Canada. I love going to ethnic neighbourhoods in different cities, and having the various different cultural celebrations etc. If you take that to the extreme, however, you end up with things like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamtramck,_Michigan
TL;DR: They now have a publicly broadcast call to prayer, have banned bars near mosques, and were early in the admittedly long line of rainbow flag bans.
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Originally Posted by Sliver
But every kid doesn't like hockey. Born and raised Calgarian and idgaf about hockey. No way all immigrants care about hockey. Most don't...it's probably just your bubble of people who like hockey.
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I don't have data for it, but I would be willing to bet my life savings that if you surveyed new immigrants from Asia/South Asia about if they followed or played hockey vs. their children, there would be a stark difference.