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The distinction often is more akin to "promising" and "not promising". Universities, employers, creditors, those looking for a spouse, etc. Everyone does it to
by am_i_down 10y ago
The distinction often is more akin to "promising" and "not promising". Universities, employers, creditors, those looking for a spouse, etc. Everyone does it to some degree. Why can't a country?
- mozumder 10y agoBecause the populist parameters used to define usefulness of a person is incorrect. You think a person from Mexico is more useless than a person from Canada?
- microcolonel 10y agoOn the whole, a Canadian citizen will be more promising in the U.S. Canadians speak English which is close to Standard American English; the cultures are more similar, and the level of poverty is much lower, meaning they're less likely to become dependent on social programs. If usefulness is measured in ability to contribute to the productivity of the nation as a whole, then Canadians are a better bet (knowing nothing else about the individual). All else being equal though, I don't see how you could make the claim that the U.S. is engaged in favouritism between equally-promising Canadian and Mexican potential immigrants. Mexicans and Canadians both (technically) need to get permits to work in the U.S.
- thatfrenchguy 10y agoAll Canadiens don't speak English. A lot of people only speak Spanish in the US.
- microcolonel 10y agoThe Québécois were estimated in 2011 to be about 43% functionally franco-anglo bilingual; seems they're becoming more so year over year, the estimate was about 41% in 2006. About 8% of Québécois have English as their mother tongue. 5% of Québec doesn't even speak French, granted some of those will be allophones and illiterates.
- mozumder 10y agoSo how many Canadians do we have picking strawberries in California? Who do you think is better for controlling the US inflation rate?
- microcolonel 10y agoThere are plenty of Mexican illegal immigrants in Canada, probably helping with our huge pulse crops. Anyway, there's no point in enhancing the productivity of U.S. domestic agriculture. It is incredibly productive and food is incredibly cheap at the wholesale level. If it becomes a bit more expensive at the wholesale level, I doubt that will shift the consumer price all that much. The people who would have more trouble affording food would also have higher mean income, since they would be more likely to be employed.
- anon74663 10y agoMore importantly, how can you not think that? Logically a Canadian is going to be culturally a better fit, financially better off, and more educated and skilled. It's got nothing to do with race or nationality, just a statement about the average Mexican vs the average Canadian. Don't throw logic out the window in service to liberal ideals.
- mozumder 10y agoThe US already as plenty of people that "culturally fit better", are more educated, are skilled, etc. We don't have enough people that picks Strawberry crops in California or does home construction in suburbs. We literally don't have those people willing to do those jobs, which can cause runaway inflation. Immigration is not about adding more of the same. It's about filling holes in our economy and labor force. How many Canadians do you think are going to go picking Strawberries in California?
- 67726e 10y ago> We don't have enough people that picks Strawberry crops in California or does home construction in suburbs. We literally don't have those people willing to do those jobs, which can cause runaway inflation Then increase the wage paid. You're literally arguing for a slave-wage underclass.
- mozumder 10y agoAre you under the mistaken impression that increasing wages paid would cause people to work those jobs? And you are literally asking for runaway inflation. Guess who pays for that the most at a rate higher than the rest of society? The poor and the elderly on fixed income. Do you want to punish the poor and elderly on fixed income because millennials can't be bothered to work hard labor because it might interrupt their precious time? Maybe you would like to take away the healthcare for the poor and elderly as well?
- xienze 10y ago
- bjelkeman-again 10y agoI never finished university, and I started a bunch of companies. How do you sort out people on a "promising"/"not promising" scale for doing good things for the economy?
- stagbeetle 10y agoYou don't and you're not sorted for that sort of thing. As a fellow dropout, I think you just took this chance to show-off (like many dropouts/unconventionally successful do).
- bjelkeman-again 10y agoIt wasn't my intention, but maybe it was subconscious. If I wanted to show off, then I would have talked about success.
- hackinthebochs 10y agoHaving zero false negatives isn't a requirement
- xienze 10y ago> How do you sort out people on a "promising"/"not promising" scale for doing good things for the economy? Ask Australia? But at a very basic level: * Criminal background -> sorry * No high school-equivalent education -> sorry * Crippling, expensive disease -> sorry Those are just three basic things that let you know straight away that this person has little chance to do anything but consume resources.