[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > From today's Inside Higher Ed: > > "Canadian immigration policy favors those with a higher education, > and the result is that white Canadians now are behind most other > groups in the country when it comes to educational attainment, > according to new research reported by the CanWest News Service. > > <http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=d3815d11-2584-4b53-90b2-d4aed5461e1f> > According to new data, only 25.9 percent of white Canadians have a > university degree. The figures for some other other groups: black > Canadians (30.1 percent), South Asians (47.4 percent), Japanese > Canadians (48.5 percent), Arab Canadians (51.6 percent), Chinese > Canadians (58.4 percent), Filipino Canadians (58.6 percent), and > in the top spot Korean Canadians (74.7 percent)." > > > > > What is the issue? Why should that matter? Immigrants are a part > of the society,aren't they? > I don't think there is any issue Michael. It is just an interesting milestone, and an unintended consequence of Canada's immigration policies of the past generation. Perhaps more "white" Canadians will feel the need to go to university now. Why would you interpret this as portraying an "issue"?
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