Answer to The Threatened
An anonymous commenter has reacted to my small posting about the price of rice doubling with a mind-numbing racially charged statement:
"Rice is expensive? That may be so, but we need to keep our mad system of immigration rollin, rollin, rollin to ensure food scarcity and the destruction of our culture!"
I almost rejected this comment because of its inherent ugliness.
Is out immigration process a thing of beauty to behold?
No, far from it. In so many ways it is a mess.
But this is a country of immigrants and the world has never been more in flux. People are shifting homes from country to country in the millions daily. Thank the airplane, among other things for that. Why do people move? For the same reason that dogs lick themselves - because they can.
Does any of this mean "the destruction of our culture?"
What exactly is "our culture?"
Here in the Western provinces, we are an immature, adolescent society that cannot have a drink without misbehaving, that cannot and will not obey traffic rules or courtesies and that screams bloody murder when the government proposes spending a pathetic $50Million on a better civic art gallery.
This is a culture that must be guarded at all costs?
Oh, wait a minute...you mean white culture, anglo culture, non-yellow culture, is that it?
To me, one of the best things about Vancouver, one of the most hopeful things (after the mountains and the sea and the trees, because not much that man has wrought is very impressive) is the now regular sight of mixed-race couples.
Every day we see couples - straight and gay - who are Chinese/Irish, Jewish/Sikh, black/Ukrainian and so on. Some years ago, I attended three weddings in one summer in which all three grooms were Chinese and all three brides were Italian. Bellisima!
And their babies are beautiful.
My mother (May she rest in peace.) said many years ago, "David, the future of the human race is slightly chocolate. "
It is difficult for all concerned - those who have been in one place for generations and those recently arrived - to find accommodation. But find it we must.
My family were immigrants. I am a first generation Canadian.
If you think that our immigration system is destroying our culture, you should try Germany or the Netherlands these days. You'd just love it. Or London, where there are now as many mosques as churches.
Good luck, brother.
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The great nations of the world all have one thing in common, a mixing of races.
While the U.S. and Canada's immigration isn't perfect, it's certainly a whole lot better than the mess over in the Netherlands or France. Even in supposedly homogeneous Africa, there are people killing each other over slight differences in heritages.
While I was in Honolulu last month, one of the most beautiful things was the completely integration of races from all over the world. It's much more multi-racial than even Vancouver.
Finally, the writer could learn a little something about work ethic from the numerous Asian people who have come here and started countless enterprises, all of which help our economy.
"Rice is expensive? That may be so, but we need to keep our mad system of immigration rollin, rollin, rollin to ensure food scarcity and the destruction of our culture!"
Why am I not troubled by finding this to be gibberish? Oh, right, 'cause it is. Phew.
Slightly chocolate? I love that! I would love to have more pigmentation, I look so much better with a tan, it also makes one look slimmer. Nothing wrong with that. We're all one people.
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