Posted on: 14-05-09 14:02:08
Today's Toronto Star's Headlines about RACISM IN CANADA ..........
Anyone have bad experience about this?? Somehow is true..........its happens here in Canada also.
See the link below.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/634117
Worse Canada is going down the tube like India. The only thing slowing it down is Uncle Harper. If the conservatives and a few Good guys like McGuinty were not there, Canada would already become Desiland.
Can anybody tell me the difference between an Indian party like DMK or ADMK or Janata Dal AND our own NDP?.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/14/tamil-tiger-supporters-win-encouragement-from-the-ndp.aspx
If tamil tigers protest then it is for freedom of their homeland.
If Sinhalese counter this protest in a peaceful way then it is a \"Hate Crime\".
http://www.680news.com/wap/more.jsp?content=20090513_180739_8132
Wow ! is this also not Racism ?. Preferential treatment of a votebank like Tamil over Sinhalese?.
Think!.
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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.
Exactly Vandemataram. On the same note. NDP party leader in BC was also present in nagar kirtan full of Khalistani supporters in Surrey. Vote bank - what else? When Liberals were talking about an alliance with Party Qubecois a few months ago, the same NDP criticized them for a handshake with Canadian seperatists. So, who is now laughing at the same stage with India's seperatists. Need I say more? Oh! Other country's seperatists are different than mine. The end result? NDP went down the drain in BC provincial elections again.
By the way, I hardly hear or see Mr. Layton.
So there's an article in the paper that there's racism in Canada and you all jump on that bandwagon? Ludicrous. To say the least.
Why? Tell me what your own experience has been.
Personally for me, I have had racist remarks hurled at me twice. But I am not declaring this nation has viral racism in its blood. Never in my professional career have I had any loss per se because of racist favouritism. On the contrary, I have been chosen over the fair junta. In the past 11 years, two incidents of racist remarks will not, IMHO, amount to anything.
I don't give a damn about this article. I have had black managers, Chinese directors, Indian VPs...so in my books, this article has no credence and won't even make it as a toilet paper role.
Vandemataram - Does everything in your opinion have to end up with some allusions to India??? WTF?
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Racism can be in various forms. It can be crude, it can be subtle or it can also be systemic. In Canada it is of the more subtle variety and definitely systemic. One has to be blind as a bat to say there is no racism in Canada.
But we have to put things in perspective when it comes making choices in life.
Example: Is racism a factor for moving away from Canada? Will we face discrimination in some other form if we move back to India?
Its an individual thing. One persons experience cannot be generalised for all.
Most favorable choice seems to be a move to US. There is less racism(institutional) in US than in Canada. Or at least, economic benefits cushion racist tendencies in that society. The same Indians in US live in better neighborhoods, have better jobs and are more upwardly mobile.
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Originally posted by Daari_Tappida_Maaga
Most favorable choice seems to be a move to US. There is less racism(institutional) in US than in Canada. Or at least, economic benefits cushion racist tendencies in that society. The same Indians in US live in better neighborhoods, have better jobs and are more upwardly mobile.
I've lived both in Canada and the US for nine years collectively and have found the Americans to be far more accepting, open and friendly than the Canucks. But am sure an African American or a Latino can't say that about the US...
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Originally posted by Daari_Tappida_Maaga
Racism can be in various forms. It can be crude, it can be subtle or it can also be systemic. In Canada it is of the more subtle variety and definitely systemic. One has to be blind as a bat to say there is no racism in Canada.
But we have to put things in perspective when it comes making choices in life.
Example: Is racism a factor for moving away from Canada? Will we face discrimination in some other form if we move back to India?
Its an individual thing. One persons experience cannot be generalised for all.
Most favorable choice seems to be a move to US. There is less racism(institutional) in US than in Canada. Or at least, economic benefits cushion racist tendencies in that society. The same Indians in US live in better neighborhoods, have better jobs and are more upwardly mobile.
Nice reply. You have put it succintly and accurately. In Canada , racism is systematic.
However, I am now afraid to go back as I will face tremendous and extreme discrimination as I belong to so called "Higher caste" as categorized in my province and I am HINDU. Worst combination and hence will be subject to extreme prejidice.
