Now, Chinese-Canadians Right At Home

Here is an excerpt of the article:


"Most of our customers are Chinese, but we've also become a tourist destination for other people," says Stella Ho, the mall's promotion manager.

Alex Koul, a Markham resident, decided to bring his mother, Valentina, here this week on her visit from Russia.

"She thinks it's more interesting than the Eaton Centre," he says. "I thought it was a good way of showing her what Canada is about" "


When will the madness end? When will people stand up for courageous politicians such as Carole Bell who give the bureaucratic elitist new world order the finger and stand up for the real Canada?


Can't the utopian socialists on Vive see that multilculturalism in practice is all about erasing the English Canadian majority and replacing them? Can't you see that? Can't you see that liberalism is nothing more than Marxism in disguise?

I am embarrassed by the Marxist opinions of the otherwise nationalist Toronto Star.


I bet the morons who voted Pearson-Trudeau didn't think they were voting for a borderless world and the forced ethnic cleansing of their own race and culture.

The multicultural, "country of immigrants" myth is slowing coming out of the bag, and not a moment to soon. Once it is out, it can never be put back in.

People are people; why don`t we all just unite to build a better society?

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Dave Ruston

Chinese-Canadian (as an example of any who wishes to hyphenate themselves) means being Chinese with Canadian citizenship. It doesn't mean they are Canadian.

It is time we drop the "community" euphamism and finally call a spade a spade. With the increase of enclaving we should start reffering to places like Markham (and Brampton, and Surrey, and Woodbridge, and Richmond B.C., etc) as colonies. This is neo-colonization in practice but no one dares to call it that lest they be labled a racist. But then again colonization is what greedy, white, European males do. Not non-Europeans. Right? Let's not alarm Canadians enough to actually demand that our out of control immigration and refugee system be fixed. But no one wants to put a few immigration lawyers/liscensed human trafficers out of work or hurt the votes for the Liberal party.

I read that article in the Toronto Star. One of the Chinese residents refers to the "white flight" phenomenon as anecdotal. How Canadian of this person. Hide your head in the sand at anything that might shatter the myth of Canadian style multicultualism and pretend the problem doesn't exist. White flight is a real problem. The Toronto Star reported on it a about a year or two ago and immigration and enclaving are the main factors Canadians nor longer feel at home anymore and thus move to towns outside of Toronto. How interesting. In order for Chinese and Indians, etc. to feel at "home" they must cluster and change the homes of someone else. When immigrants do that in Canada it is a celebration. When whites did that here, and elsewhere, to indigenous poeples it is a lamentation. We Canadians are so pathetic.

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Because Dave, foreign cultures have shown no compunction towards doing anything other than making more money than before. Their racist ethnic lobbies strive to overtake real Canadians, not share anything with them.

The Saint, you are one of the few sane people on Vive. These one-world communists are actively eliminating our own cultural heritage.

Toronto was once the imperial city--now it is a third world salad bowl. I cry when I think of how stupid most people are, and how they won't wake up until drastic measures will have to be taken--or we will disappear, which is not a problem to one-world dildos like Pierre Trudeau, Paul Martin and Lester B. Pearson.

Toronto and Vancouver are WAY past the point of an easy solution.

jesonj,

-thank you for sharing our lovely government's writing....think about it another way, and you will see it is insane.

Our government told us this multiculti and 1982 American-style Charter was about enshrining right:

-it fails to take into account that people live in groups, and culture is not an individual thing,

-it promises to eliminate ghettoization, and it actually CAUSES ghettoization, hostility, even violence. (there were race riots in Quebec in the early 1990s.

-it claims to treat people equally, while systematically destroying the 99% white majority that speaks English and French,

-it claims to be treating people with respect, while forcing a civilized 99% majority to have history rewritten, foreign cultures stuffed down their throats, standrads lowered, anti-white affirmative action entrenched, and white guilt elevated, while non-whites are told they can do no wrong, whereas whitey is to blame for everything.


Our government is full of shit--but so is the government of every other white country. We've been betrayed by leaders who are elected to protect us. The only winners are money lenders.

Vive le Canada.ca is a nationalist site but a PROGRESSIVE nationalist site. That means we DON'T build our definition of our nation on "white culture" or on excluding anyone due to race, ethnicity, or yes, country of origin, whether Chinese or American or any other country. <P> <a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/multifaq/index.php?topic=12&qt_id=20&getlevel=017">Isn't nationalism bad?</a> <P> You'll also note we ask members--and users--to abide by a code of conduct that prohibits discrimination. <P> <a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/multifaq/index.php?topic=2&qt_id=12&getlevel=009">Commitment to Fair Treatment</a> <P> If you believe being a nationalist includes an emphasis on race or ethnicity, I will kindly show you the door. And I will also moderate comments with that in mind. <p>---<br>Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major...leaflet campaign.--Rimmer, Red Dwarf<br />

Your argument that allowing immigrants into this country and supporting multiculturalism is the "forced ethnic cleasing of their own race and culture" ie "white" "race and culture" is odious and absolutely NOT the kind of nationalism we endorse on Vive. Carole Bell was also simply wrong. See below.

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Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major...leaflet campaign.--Rimmer, Red Dwarf

Hey, how about some proof rather than unfounded generalizations? Where is your evidence?

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Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major...leaflet campaign.--Rimmer, Red Dwarf

Like what solution, a "final solution"?!

Multiculturalism strengthens Canada and it saddens me that the people who immigrate here and work hard to become citizens have to content with attitudes like yours.

Toronto and Vancouver are examples of the future, and it's a positive one.


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Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major...leaflet campaign.--Rimmer, Red Dwarf

Saint, I want to address you in particular.

If someone becomes a Canadian citizen, they are Canadian, period.

Funny how people such as yourself apparently have no problem with "white" immigrants "clustering" or "colonizing" in Canada, and never raise that as a concern, as though every "white" immigrant has the same culture and language, or the culture and language of "real" Canadians. Or do the only "white" immigrants who classify as non-threatening come from England and France?

Various people spout anti-immigration crap to my face all the time, and talk about limiting immigration and why we need to do it, because I'm white and they assume. In fact my mother was an immigrant and most of my father's family were immigrants including my grandparents and aunts and uncles. They came here speaking other languages and with their own cultures which we still keep alive and which are NOT the same just because technically both sides of my family are "white" and "European".

After all, how exactly do you propose to let the "good" immigrants in (ie white, or only English and French) while keeping the "bad" immigrants out without having racially-based, ie racist, immigration policies? That's the same kind of thinking that caused Canadians to put Japanese-Canadians in internment camps during the war while letting Nazi war criminals walk right in and settle down (because they were "white"). It is still FAR too prevalent.

Immigration is NOT colonization. Immigrants accept Canadian laws and legislation. Our laws are set up so that it's easier to get into the country if you have family here, and not surprisingly new immigrants may want to live near that family, just like most of us do--that's not some threatening form of "clustering". It isn't easy for immigrants and refugees to get into Canada, and in fact it should be easier and we shouldn't have signed the "safe third country agreement" with the U.S. that forces us to turn away refugees if they've already been turned away by the U.S.

And as for "white flight", where is your proof? How about an actual link? Or anything besides your word that it's an actual concern? Besides which, why are you blaming the racist attitudes of people who don't want to live with "non-whites" on the immigrants, rather than those racist attitudes or those people themselves?

Frankly, the colonization you should be worried about is economic colonization, in which giant multinational companies are coming in and forcing out Canadian-owned companies and overturning the democratic decisions of our governments. That colonization is not being accomplished by anyone who cares enough to immigrate to this country and become a citizen, but rather by giant corporations originating in the US and China and elsewhere that call no nation home but instead use "globalization" as a way to supercede all governments. The "white" people involved in that, the really, really, rich ones, will in fact try to play on racism like yours to bolster fears of the threat of Chinese competition and justify deep integration, the real colonization, by themselves rather than China.

If anyone is hiding their head in the sand, it is you.

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Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard, and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major...leaflet campaign.--Rimmer, Red Dwarf

I never said final solution at all....I meant solution to the racial and cultural tension which exists in Canada's major cities Susan, which you are clearly unaware of because you don't live in a big city. We are a big country.

I completely agree with you that Toronto and Vancouver are much closer to the future than most---a third world future of crime, poverty, disease, decay and dissolution.