The Importance of Remembering the Past
I remember riding the subway one day back in the late 1980s and noticing just how many of the people around me were not white and for whom English was not their first language. Mulroney had opened the immigration floodgates, the results were beginning to be visible (as it were) and I was beginning to worry
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In your first reply, you quoted my line, "We change our immigrants slowly, and slowly, our immigrants change Canada", then added:
"This is exactly what I fear of..."
In your subsequent piece, you express vague resentment about the term, visible minority, then tell us that you, yourself, "haven’t faced any discrimination on the ethnical ground so far -- on the job market, at least." (I note that you don't explain how or when you've experienced discrimination elsewhere.)
You then quote one white, middle-aged Canadian guy, presumably heterosexual, as telling you that you're out of luck because you're not coloured or queer (if you'll forgive me the slang). And tell us that "[t]hat guy must be trusted".
And that's the whole of the "evidence" you present for your case - whatever that is. Near as I can tell, you want to be considered a "visible minority" too - or maybe you don't want anybody to be able to make the claim ( ... )
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