Want to Call Yourself Canadian? Assimilate–or Else…

Posted by Jack Stephens | August 20th, 2008 | Crossposted from The Blog and the Bullet

Alex blogs:

Canadians are too polite to tell the gooks to go home, that just wouldn’t seem right.

It does, however, seem to be ok to tell them to “integrate” with “our culture” or else “Canada should reject that person as a potential Canadian citizen.”

A recent Toronto Star article titled “Sure we have rights, but what about duties?” by Angelo Persichilli has resulted in a wave of joyous Letters to the Editor [9 Aug] basically insisting that immigrants (Angelo calls us “ethnics”) stop being so not like them and freaking them out.

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