See this comment, omG
吳孟達 發表於 2010-7-30 08:43 
Some of the points in there are entirely valid; of course, a lot of it is utter crap as well.
There is certainly resentment among locals (and not just among Caucasians) that real estate prices are boosted up to unreachable heights because of wealthy immigrants (with Mainland Chinese being a major driving force there). Heck, as a typical Canadian, I am upset about that too. So this kind of resentment is understandable. It is also understandable that some people are pissed off because some (a lot of?) new immigrants seemingly have little desire to integrate into mainstream society. Most infuriating is that:
it is the culture of wealthy asian's who bring their entire extended families to live here in Canada, use our public system health and wealfare system, yet the $$$ earner still lives in Hong Kong so they pay no tax yet cost the system dearly.
We all know how true and common this is in our society. The spirit of equality behind the Canadian government's social programs is to help those in need of them, and the system is continually being taken advantage of by many who obviously need it the least. So again, the frustration is entirely understandable.
Of course, despite the fact that the cause of resentment is entirely understandable, that does not make any of the racist action by these idiots acceptable.
The easy thing to say is that we need to better educate everyone involved -- how multiculturalism is important to Canadian values; how new immigrants need to integrate themselves into mainstream society and not just remain within their little ethnic community, etc. But that is all very easy to say, but rather difficult to implement and execute.
I wish my sociology background is stronger so that I would have some better insights.
-Lik |
發表於 2010-7-30 09:34
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