Quebec bashing/Dawson tragedy

If you look at the US you will see that their system accommodates a much broader array of identities plus mixed heritages are recognized. Because of intermarriage the mixed category is growing quickly in both the US and Canada. Canada’s problem is that it has no way of recognizing and integrating groups or individuals on the social fringe.

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If you look at the US you will see that their system accommodates a much broader array of identities plus mixed heritages are recognized. Because of intermarriage the mixed category is growing quickly in both the US and Canada. Canada’s problem is that it has no way of recognizing and integrating groups or individuals on the social fringe.

Interesting point. As Canadians, we should be more welcoming to our citizens of different races. One way to do this is to adopt a melting pot approach similar to the way our neighbors down south handle multiculturalism and immigration. If we encourage new immigrants to adopt our culture instead of ghettoizing themselves into their own little worlds, they will surely feel more welcome into their new society. They'll feel like they are one of us and not alienated. This approach has worked well in the US, why shouldn't Canada adopt it as well?

Quote: Originally Posted by shannonQuote: Originally Posted by sanchIf you look at the US you will see that their system accommodates a much broader array of identities plus mixed heritages are recognized. Because of intermarriage the mixed category is growing quickly in both the US and Canada. Canada’s problem is that it has no way of recognizing and integrating groups or individuals on the social fringe.Interesting point. As Canadians, we should be more welcoming to our citizens of different races. One way to do this is to adopt a melting pot approach similar to the way our neighbors down south handle multiculturalism and immigration. If we encourage new immigrants to adopt our culture instead of ghettoizing themselves into their own little worlds, they will surely feel more welcome into their new society. They'll feel like they are one of us and not alienated. This approach has worked well in the US, why shouldn't Canada adopt it as well?Oh really? Who says it works so well.. was it the statistics?
Demographic-based incarceration rates:

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What many outsiders don't realize is how alienating the decades-long linguistic struggle has been in the once-cosmopolitan city. It hasn't just taken a toll on long-time anglophones, it's affected immigrants, too. To be sure, the shootings in all three cases were carried out by mentally disturbed individuals. But what is also true is that in all three cases, the perpetrator was not pure laine, the argot for a "pure" francophone. Elsewhere, to talk of racial "purity" is repugnant. Not in Quebec.
In 1989, Marc Lepine shot and killed 14 women and wounded 13 others at the University of Montreal's École Polytechnique. He was a francophone, but in the eyes of pure laine Quebeckers, he was not one of them, and would never be. He was only half French-Canadian. He was also half Algerian, a Muslim, and his name was Gamil Gharbi. Seven years earlier, after the Canadian Armed Forces rejected his application under that name, he legally changed his name to .
Valery Fabrikant, an engineering professor, was an immigrant from Russia. In 1992, he shot four colleagues and wounded one other at Concordia University's faculty of engineering after learning he would not be granted tenure.
This week's killer, Kimveer Gill, was, like Marc Lepine, Canadian-born and 25. On his blog, he described himself as of "Indian" origin. (In their press conference, however, the police repeatedly referred to Mr. Gill as of "Canadian"...

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I don't know that immigrants are better assimilated here or not. The neighbourhoods in my area generally have one group or another as the predominant group. We have our Mexican area, our Cambodian area, etc. I really don't see how it's that different from Canada. The governmental policy of melting pot or mosaic doesn't do anything to affect people's individual behavior and it seems to be human nature for immigrants to settle among other immigrants from the same country.

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I don't know that immigrants are better assimilated here or not. The neighbourhoods in my area generally have one group or another as the predominant group. We have our Mexican area, our Cambodian area, etc. I really don't see how it's that different from Canada. The governmental policy of melting pot or mosaic doesn't do anything to affect people's individual behavior and it seems to be human nature for immigrants to settle among other immigrants from the same country.

I was referring to the legal immigrants that settle in the US, not those who hide in the shadows. California would probably be an exception to the rule as the state has a disproportionate number of illegals. From what I've noticed through personal experience, US immigrants from whatever country (Latin America, Russia, China, South Africa ...etc) tend to embrace US culture rather quickly.

The way to welcome immigrants is to make them feel welcome. By encouraging them to adopt our culture, immigrants will not feel alienated.