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What does "preserve the social fabric" mean?
by ryandrake 9mo ago
What does "preserve the social fabric" mean?
- debo_ 9mo agoIt's what the Irish said to us Italians when we were immigrating to Canada in droves.
- poncho_romero 9mo agoIt's a much larger drove this time around, to be fair.
- poncho_romero 9mo agoBecause there are so many Indians around, newly arrived Indians tend to spend most of their time with other Indians, and as a result don't integrate with the rest of society as much as previously waves of immigrants did. Canada is a cultural mosaic, but a certain degree of intermixing and assimilation is necessary, in my opinion, to preserve social and national bonds.
- jacquesm 9mo agoIt's a dog whistle for 'keeping Canada white'. There are a lot of racists in Canada.
- poncho_romero 9mo agoCanada is one of the least racist countries in the world. Please travel.
- api 9mo agoHonestly so is the USA. Yes there is racism, more than I used to think, but it’s below average. Not being racist is really a pretty modern idea that didn’t become popular anywhere until the last 50 years. For most of human history it was conventional wisdom that (whatever I am) is the obviously superior form of human. Statistically this is probably still what most living people think. I mean of course whatever you are is the master race. Isn’t it obvious?
- jacquesm 9mo agoI've lived there. Bullshit.
- poncho_romero 9mo agoWhat countries would you consider to not be racist? Canada is a functional pluralistic society. Yes there are racists here, but far fewer than elsewhere in my view.
- remarkEon 9mo agoThis doesn’t work anymore.
- whjte 9mo ago[flagged]