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[quote=CHYNAGYRL,246614]I just want to mention a grain of salt when we are talking about multiculturalism in Canada.  I think generally Canadians embrace other cultures.  One of our best qualities is that we do not have a strong national identity, so we can embrace other cultures and their customs.  Our national policy is emphasizing human rights and equality and its great our government places such importance on that.

However, Canadians are known for being PC  They might not tell you what they think in their heart of hearts.  There is underground discrimination in Canada.  It's subtle.  Some big banks, financial companies prefer to hire tall Caucasian guys for managerial positions in big companies, and Asians with similar competencies cannot get these positions easily.  In my parent's company, there was all Caucasian people in managerial positions, not one Asian in the whole of Canada.   Doesn't that strike you as unusual?  But only someone who looks carefully will see this.  We Canadians are a very polite bunch, but it doesn't mean that everyone is embracing those of different colour or creed.  Canadians are too nice to tell you sometimes of something they believe that is not politically correct.

Also consider this, almost 50% of Torontonians (largest city in Canada) are immigrants.  I am pretty sure they've brought over old world attitudes with them.  They have their own prejudices, ie Chinese people think white skin is the best, ie fair-skinned Chinese are superior to dark-skinned Asians.  Some people don't want their kids to marry black people, or non-Jewish people, or Muslim people.  They think immigrants should stay where they came from -- because they are taking away jobs from Canadians.  At some time or other, someone has expressed these thoughts to me.  And it's normal for people to have some thoughts like these once in a while.  Even people of the same culture have ways of stratifying their own society (ie in India, different castes, or in Asia, there is marked segregation by wealth).

The important thing is that after people have lived here for a long time, they share common Canadian values and that's why the idea of being a Canadian unites immigrants here from many background more than anything else.  They see themselves as being Canadian first, and their own ethnicity, second.

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