Die-versity in Canada

[BigBaribal]

Kanadistan: a joke?

Not really, look here:


A quick quiz: What is the second most common mother tongue of students in Quebec's French-language school system?

If you answered English, you are right. But it won't be for long.....

http://www.canada.com/fortstjohn/story.html?id=b2d0dd54-340a-46dc-91bf-a4b296da73ae

http://img126.exs.cx/img126/5746/33185101206qo.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[americanbychoice]

Learning how to be Canadian in Quebec - I'm sure they will be very well-adjusted Canadian citizens.

:cantbeli:

/nothing wrong with legal immigrants who want to be part of a new country, but Quebec? ~50% of Quebecois hate being Canadian, for goodness' sake!

[EvanL]

Ohh god this is terrible!
ANothe culture!
Run!

[ex1cdo]

Kanadistan: a joke?

Not really, look here:


A quick quiz: What is the second most common mother tongue of students in Quebec's French-language school system?

If you answered English, you are right. But it won't be for long.....

http://www.canada.com/fortstjohn/story.html?id=b2d0dd54-340a-46dc-91bf-a4b296da73ae

http://img126.exs.cx/img126/5746/33185101206qo.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

I love selective editing in an attempt to make an otherwise unsupportable point.

The caption beneath the photograph in the quoted article indicates that these are "...special language classes" and they are "... given at lunch hour and after school".

Don't worry, my racist friend. We shall work it out quite nicely on our own without your help.

[usa320]

i wish they taught us arabic in highschool. Our only choices were Italian, Spanish and French. But the last 2 years french wasnt even an option cause only 3 students signed up in a school of 1200 students.

I personally hope to pursue a career in intelligence someday, and knowing Arabic would be helpful.

[EvanL]

i wish they taught us arabic in highschool. Our only choices were Italian, Spanish and French. But the last 2 years french wasnt even an option cause only 3 students signed up in a school of 1200 students.

I personally hope to pursue a career in intelligence someday, and knowing Arabic would be helpful.
Well you better start getting intelligent!

[ridenrain]

The ONLY possible problem I see with that is bilingualism is a necessity for getting a job in the government. New immigrants are cheap, easy votes for the Federal liberals and I could see them getting jobs because of this unique status.
Other than this irrational fear, good for them.

[ex1cdo]

The ONLY possible problem I see with that is bilingualism is a necessity for getting a job in the government. New immigrants are cheap, easy votes for the Federal liberals and I could see them getting jobs because of this unique status.
Other than this irrational fear, good for them.

It's not so simple as that, I fear.

My brother was a regular forces officer. He couldn't advance beyond the rank of Major, even though bilingual, because he's an Anglo and hadn't gone to staff college.

If anyone doesn't believe me, just check out the army list and see who sits at half colonel and above.

[BigBaribal]

So, obviously, you are all ready for shariah laws first in Ontario and then on the whole Canada. Frankly, I admire your open mind to new experiences and I feel ashamed to be so limited in front of so great and mind-opening cultures.

P.S. I will try too to learn arabic to become intelligent :lol:

[BigBaribal]

Btw, a funny news:


OTTAWA (*******) - A Canadian radio station was formally reprimanded on Wednesday after one of its presenters insulted immigrants to Canada and then said the Sikhs of northern India were "a gang of bozos".



The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said the item on Montreal's CKAC-FM was "abusive and unduly discriminatory" and ordered the station to make a public apology.

Immigration is a sensitive issue in Canada, one of the few western countries that still accepts large numbers of immigrants each year.

In a show broadcast in December 2003, CKAC-FM presenter Pierre Mailloux told listeners that immigrants who came to Canada should abandon their habits and traditions.

"You cultural communities come from a wacko country. You live a wacko culture. Don't bring it with you. That's the message to convey," he said......

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1965&ncid=731&e=1&u=/nm/20050331/india_nm/india_197224


:lol:

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

Ohh god this is terrible!
ANother culture!
Run!

"dey took our jobs!" :lol: Its funny, maybe people dont understand that its ok to have other cultures in your country. The only reason this made any news on this site, is because they speak Arabic. And we all know how terrified all the American WarChilderen are of them...... :roll:

[ex1cdo]

So, obviously, you are all ready for shariah laws first in Ontario and then on the whole Canada. Frankly, I admire your open mind to new experiences and I feel ashamed to be so limited in front of so great and mind-opening cultures.

P.S. I will try too to learn arabic to become intelligent :lol:

Here in Ontario we already have religious civil arbitration for the Jewish and Roman Catholic communities. Note that I said civil. Why do you feel that extending the same civil rights to the Islamic community is a bad thing?

This does not affect our criminal code. Nobody is compelled to comply with these religious civil arbitrations.

Do I agree with them? No. I think that there should be one civil code that applies to all,

[americanbychoice]

Ohh god this is terrible!
ANother culture!
Run!

"dey took our jobs!" :lol: Its funny, maybe people dont understand that its ok to have other cultures in your country. The only reason this made any news on this site, is because they speak Arabic. And we all know how terrified all the American WarChilderen are of them...... :roll:

No, the funny thing is that this is in Quebec... where ~50% of the people already think that they should run away from Canada over cultural differences.

And, no, it's not okay to be bigoted against Americans either.

[mr ping]

yeah BigBaribal, really funny....

suppose you may find this a barrel of laughs as well :

http://www.sikhs.org/100th/part5a.html

On Remembrance Day in 1993 an incident involving Sikh war veterans arose which would call into question the Sikh identity and their contribution to the two World Wars. Five elderly decorated Sikhs who had served in the allied armed forces had been invited by the Royal Canadian Legion branch in Newton B.C., to march alongside other legion members in their annual Remembrance Day parade. When the parade approached the legion hall to listen to speeches from dignitaries in the legion's canteen, the five Sikh veterans were denied entry because they wore turbans. The reason given was that wearing any "headgear" or hat was disrespectful to the memory of the war dead.

http://www.sikhs.org/100th/s44.jpg

"We were invited there. They knew weeks in advance that we were Sikhs and that we have turbans. If they had no intention of letting us in I don't understand why we were invited to participate… To ask a Sikh to remove his turban is an insult, not only to him, but to the Sikh religion. You will have to remove my neck before I remove my turban." (Harbhajan Singh Minhas)

This very disturbing incident which became a big issue across the country with the media coverage. It revealed two things, one that the general public and the Canadian Legion in particular remains ignorant of the tenants of the Sikh religion and secondly ignorant of the wartime contribution of the Sikh people. As the Sikh religion continues to slowly spread throughout the world over time people will come to understand that the turban and other physical characteristics of Sikhs are religious requirements and not cultural vestiges.

As far as the wartime contribution of Sikhs is concerned, this in now old history and needs to be brought to the forefront of the Canadian people and the Legionaries in particular. Not only were the first Sikh immigrants to Canada soldiers and veterans of the British Army, but throughout both World Wars, Sikhs sacrificed their lives as members of the allied war forces in the British armed forces. Sikhs were never asked to remove their turbans when it came time to fight and die in the trenches and battlefields of far off lands in both World Wars, so why should their sacrifices be discounted with such an insult? The wartime contribution of the Sikh people stands on its own merits.

http://www.sikhs.org/100th/s31.jpg

Hardit Singh Malik was a graduate from Oxford who applied for an officers commission in the British army at the advent of World War I. He was rejected on the grounds that no British soldier would tolerate being subordinate to an Indian officer. Hardit Singh went to France, where he served as a front-line ambulance driver before enlisting and being accepted into the French airforce. When his old Oxford tutor became aware of the situation he wrote the British authorities expressing outrage that ethnic bigotry should force a loyal British subject to be flying for the French. National pride overcame prejudice and Hardit Singh was allowed to enlist in the Royal Flying Corps as a pilot. From September 1917 until the end of the war he would continue to fly missions for the British air force against the Germans. Years later in 1948 this war veteran would became India's first High Commissioner to Canada.

For the culturally enlightened peeps this link may be of interest :

http://www.sikhs.org/100th/

[Stormy]

Now I know the Sikhs were already in Canada for a long time, Mr Ping. Thanks for the page.

[ridenrain]

The Legion made a terrible PR move when they didn't let them in. They should have thought how that would look before they made that gammy knee jerk reaction.
In BC, a Sikh is exempt from the motorcycle helmet laws, even though I hear they make paratrooper helmets that will go over a turban.
It's an interesting world, out here in the west.

[ex1cdo]

yeah BigBaribal, really funny....



I'll be proud to stand beside any Sikh veteran before any number of the likes of BigBaribal. They've been our faithful comrades in arms for a long time.

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

Ohh god this is terrible!
ANother culture!
Run!

"dey took our jobs!" :lol: Its funny, maybe people dont understand that its ok to have other cultures in your country. The only reason this made any news on this site, is because they speak Arabic. And we all know how terrified all the American WarChilderen are of them...... :roll:

No, the funny thing is that this is in Quebec... where ~50% of the people already think that they should run away from Canada over cultural differences.

And, no, it's not okay to be bigoted against Americans either.

If it was 50% they would've seperated back in the early 90's :lol:

Sarcasm anyone?

[BigBaribal]

yeah BigBaribal, really funny....



I'll be proud to stand beside any Sikh veteran before any number of the likes of BigBaribal. They've been our faithful comrades in arms for a long time.


An example in England on how the Sikhs react when they feel something goes against their identity: they simply attack and burn the theater, talk about open-mindeness and just imagine the opposite if English natives would have burn a Sikh theater, the press would have scream for months about it!

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Just for the fun, the reaction of the lemming-in-chief:

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Also an example of the "Troy horse" tactic many ethnic alien communities are using, with the naive complicity of the PC lemmings:

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[Mr.K]

quebecers (well the so-called separatists) will never separate. They're too chicken to do that. It's just that it's considered "good" and "patriotic" to claim that you voted PQ, while secretly they vote liberal or don't vote at all.
Yeah arabic might become an important language in quebec (but NOT an official language) due to french speaking arabic immigrants and Quebec's obsession of denying the right to study in english in order to protect french.
Maybe chinese will become the "2nd language" in British Columbia.

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

Maybe koutch.....Either way this whole country was built on immegration....I'm 1/4 Czech, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 French Canadian, 1/4 American and well most people are a mix of cultures around here.

The one thing I dont get, why does "BigBaribal" care so much about what happens in Canada? :lol:

[Bombtrack]

Learning how to be Canadian in Quebec - I'm sure they will be very well-adjusted Canadian citizens.

:cantbeli:

/nothing wrong with legal immigrants who want to be part of a new country, but Quebec? ~50% of Quebecois hate being Canadian, for goodness' sake!

Coming from an American? Seriously man, get informed before you spout stupid **** like that.


No, the funny thing is that this is in Quebec... where ~50% of the people already think that they should run away from Canada over cultural differences.

And, no, it's not okay to be bigoted against Americans either.
So you can be bigoted against Quebeckers but not the other way around eh? Another typical ignorant ****

[BigBaribal]

Either way this whole country was built on immegration...


Yes, this country was built by pioneers.

But now, the "newcomers" are no more pioniers, but rather welfare suckers.



It's just like some guys have built a big beautiful house and that I come to this house, choose a free of charge flat, without having doing anything to build this house. Also without forgetting to change the painting of this house, because houses in my native country are not painted like that!

[mr ping]

BigBaribal you talk (or post) crap.... but you do bring a smile to my face so please don't stop.

Dude, as a British born Sikh I just want to reach out and hug you, feel the love my fascist brother

:hug:

You’ve chosen to pick a few stories that do not reflect the views etc of the 600,000+ Sikhs settled in the UK. Don't taint all of us by the actions of a few....

If it’s of any interest to you we Sikhs http://www.charitybikeride.com/ (yes the same illegal immigrants and crazy religious fanatics) will be doing another annual Bike ride for various charities, who I hasten to add aren't Sikh.

This year’s beneficiary:

Scope - One in every 400 babies born in the UK has cerebral palsy: that's 1,500 people every year. As they grow up, many will find that communication and getting around is harder for them than for other people. There will be practical things that they cannot do, things that most people take for granted.

Scope exists to provide support and to challenge assumptions. They believe that everyone is entitled to share in the opportunity and responsibilities of everyday life. Scope campaign for disabled people's rights and help to provide housing, technology aids, advice and education - enabling people with cerebral palsy to live the way they choose.

Previous years...

2004 - SCOPE

2003 - NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)

2002 - Capital FM - Help a London Child

2001 - The Down's Syndrome Research Foundation

2000 - Ealing Hospitals 'Play Ground in the Sky Appeal'

1999 - Contact A Family

Further Back - British Red Cross / Amnesty International / Barnardo's - Giving Children Back Their Future

When’s the last time you ever done something for some one? Regardless of their colour, race or religion?

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

Any chance of you being one of my sponsors?? :D

[rajkhalsa]

BigBaribal,

You are a dumbass. In a hundred and fifty odd years of Sikhs being a visible community in Britian, there are a few isolated incidents of stupidity.

And you take these few incidents as representative as a whole??

What about all those 99.9999999999999975% of the time where Sikhs or Indians didn't do this? What of the millions of Sikhs in military and police service and buisness in the West?


Last week, a gang of skinheads overran and vandalized a Sikh/Hindu temple in some American city. Is this to be taken as example how white people react when confronted with minorities? (Though, unlike Sikhs, a very convincing argument can be made in this case ;)

Remove the jackboot from your ass and try for once applying a semblance of 'logic' to your rantings