A lot of people seem to think "but but you're an immigrant, so YOU CAN'T CRITICIZE IMMIGRATION!"
This is wrong. Here's the uncomfortable truth:
Not all immigrants, or situations that they're immigrating to, are the same.
Let me explain 👇
@brianluidog It's clear you're just lashing out because this group has not accepted you. You own kind has rejected you, and now you sit around posting to get back at them.
@JMUSPatriot Most Wanted means they haven’t been caught yet.
Indians are too stupid to evade police lmaoooooo
There’s a saying that an Indian that finds a wallet will sing and dance on the street about the wallet he just found.
This is the result of a few things.
One is too much immigration too quickly, and from mostly a few places. There’s no incentive to assimilate anymore. This exact phenomenon described is basically Brampton, and how neighborhoods get taken over.
Also Canadians are too concerned about living up to the “polite” stereotype that they don’t have the balls to call any of this out in person. This is generally not a problem, but because of this, their approach is to retreat. Others see this as an opening: more room for their kind to come.
These 2 phenomena together is how you arrive at a situation where parks, centres, streets, neighborhoods, cities, countries get overrun.
I'll try to be very careful and sensitive with this observation of Canada, because it touches on highly charged questions of ethnicity, immigration, belonging, and public space.
But here goes.
I've walked around Mississauga's Celebration Square on multiple evenings, and one thing I've increasingly noticed is neither hostility, nor tension, nor conflict, but something more subtle and perhaps more concerning.
Public spaces seem to become associated with particular ethnocultural communities to such a degree that many others gradually stop showing up.
The result is not segregation in any formal sense. Nobody is being excluded. Nobody is being told they cannot be there. Yet the effect can be remarkably similar. A space that is nominally shared begins to feel less shared over time.
To be perfectly clear, what troubles me isn't the presence of any particular diasporic community itself per se, but rather the gradual disappearance of the sense that these spaces belong equally to all of us as Canadians.
When a public square begins to be perceived, fairly or unfairly, as belonging primarily to one group, many others instinctively withdraw. Older-stock Canadians withdraw. Other immigrant communities withdraw. East Asians withdraw. Eastern Europeans withdraw. People who have no objection to anyone there nevertheless begin spending their evenings elsewhere.
Human beings are, for better or worse, tribal creatures. We gravitate toward familiarity. We seek places where we feel represented. We retreat when that sense of belonging is lost.
I understand this instinctively as someone from an East Asian diasporic background myself.
The bottom line here is that a healthy Canadian civilization cannot simply consist of parallel communities inhabiting the same geography. It requires common spaces where people from different backgrounds routinely encounter one another and develop some sense of collective belonging within the same civic realm.
What I increasingly worry about in Canada is not "diversity" itself, but the erosion of sharedness.
A country begins to lose something important when its public spaces cease to feel genuinely collective.
And whatever future Canada ultimately chooses for itself, it should never, ever feel like a collection of separate worlds living side by side while gradually forgetting how to inhabit the same one.
@KinderheimRune Every country has gotten to this point just fine without immigration.
Least of all immigration from the third world that stay on welfare, commit r4pe gangs, sexual assaults at high rates, incompatible with the existing cultures values (e.g equal rights for women), etc.
This is not a scene from India but from Richmond Hill, CANADA, where these Indian are polluting this CANADIAN RIVER with their filth.
Indians always spread their filth wherever they go.
This is not a scene from India but from Richmond Hill, CANADA, where these Indian are polluting this CANADIAN RIVER with their filth.
Indians always spread their filth wherever they go.
@PeregrineGroupX@juliafedorin How the hell can you not tell where this is
How the hell does this look anything like midtown
You just told on yourself as a filthy casual. You don’t know NYC.