22nd October 2003, 11:19 AM
Canada unlike popular belief has alot of minorities especially in central canada ,Some of them live in apartment but quite a bit live in with everyone else. Imigrants are given alot of opportunities such as coilege soon as they arrive if they are old enough and skilled enough. Nobody wants to paint the picture that they are a drain. I have made freinds with african imigrants and there is alot of excitement in introducing them to are way of life and culture and also learning about theres.
But what we refrain from doing is marginalism and putting a specific people taged as the underpriviledge class. Animosity is caused when certain groups get taged with the word "welfair" or "undepriviledged".
Canada has its issues a while ago the aboriginals were stereotyped and still are in some places, It all sprouted from the view in many peoples minds that Indians sat around living off tax payers dollars using that money to buy achohol and drugs and cause trouble and not contribute at all , Which is false much the same as teenagers are stereotyped.
But how all of this was ressolved Aboriginals were given more power over themselves and were held accountable for themselves , Also the tax free thing which was one of the old colonial agreements was that you had to live on a resserve to be tax free.But over the years some people were miss informed and that did cause problems thinking they were in titled to not pay taxes if they lived off a resserve.
This was a big deal when canada decided to choose its own flag ,before we would have had three leafs instead of one but we choose one leaf as a better symbol of unity then grouping it off.
But what we refrain from doing is marginalism and putting a specific people taged as the underpriviledge class. Animosity is caused when certain groups get taged with the word "welfair" or "undepriviledged".
Canada has its issues a while ago the aboriginals were stereotyped and still are in some places, It all sprouted from the view in many peoples minds that Indians sat around living off tax payers dollars using that money to buy achohol and drugs and cause trouble and not contribute at all , Which is false much the same as teenagers are stereotyped.
But how all of this was ressolved Aboriginals were given more power over themselves and were held accountable for themselves , Also the tax free thing which was one of the old colonial agreements was that you had to live on a resserve to be tax free.But over the years some people were miss informed and that did cause problems thinking they were in titled to not pay taxes if they lived off a resserve.
This was a big deal when canada decided to choose its own flag ,before we would have had three leafs instead of one but we choose one leaf as a better symbol of unity then grouping it off.