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The future Canadian worker is a Canadian with Indian ancestry, you no doubt mean.
by thoroughburro 1y ago
The future Canadian worker is a Canadian with Indian ancestry, you no doubt mean.
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- netbioserror 1y agoYou're assuming perfect assimilation happens. Otherwise you simply have a colony. If the colony outstrips the natives, they change the culture and eventually the governance of a place by right of conquest. Then they can change names and there's no denying it. States encompass territory, but nations are defined by their people and culture.
- squigz 1y ago"Perfect assimilation" doesn't seem like something that actually happens in reality.
- ahoka 1y agoYou might want to read up on Quebec.
- rayiner 1y agoThey don’t even need to achieve a majority. Look at New York City or urban New Jersey. You think those places are the same as they would have been had they remained British and Dutch?
- nyeah 1y agoIt's been a ... little while since NYC was Dutch. Let me put my tricornered hat on and think carefully.
- rayiner 1y ago“In The Culture Transplant, Garett Jones documents the cultural foundations of cross-country income differences, showing that immigrants import cultural attitudes from their homelands—toward saving, toward trust, and toward the role of government—that persist for decades, and likely for centuries, in their new national homes. Full assimilation in a generation or two, Jones reports, is a myth. And the cultural traits migrants bring to their new homes have enduring effects upon a nation's economic potential.” https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-transplant https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran... This is especially true in Toronto, where immigrants from the subcontinent grow up in enclaves surrounded by other immigrants.
- achrono 1y ago> Toronto, where immigrants from the subcontinent grow up in enclaves surrounded by other immigrants. Citation please, because this is sweeping. Two questions to consider: 1. Are these enclaves representative of the subcontinent, or of a few over-represented communities that is actually a small fraction of the Indian subcontinental population? 2. Of all the people from the Indian subcontinent here, how many live in enclaves versus otherwise?
- breitling 1y ago>Citation please Brampton, Thorncliff, Scarborough, etc. There's no shortage of immigrant heavy neighborhoods. Heck, I'm in Durham and the demographics are changing rapidly.
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- roenxi 1y agoTrue enough but probably not relevant to anything. Every society is already a patchwork of families with different beliefs that date back centuries. So noting that immigrants will form a complicated tapestry of new beliefs doesn't really bring much to the conversation - there wasn't subgroup of the host nation were they meant to assimilate with in an alternative scenario. The hypothetical culture that countries tell themselves they have appears to be mostly mythical. So it turns out immigrants are just people too and behave in the only way they possibly can. Although maybe don't just let anyone in, dump them in the middle of nowhere and hope they turn out well. That'll probably end poorly. Setting people up with economic opportunities make for happy societies.
- skeeter2020 1y ago>> dump them in the middle of nowhere and hope they turn out well A big part of the problem seems to be the opposite: Canada has dense cultural centers of specific immigrants, and not suprisingly new people from the same origins want to land there too. The challenge is this doesn't necessarily match with where people are needed the most.