[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What is a *white" Canadian? Interesting question. It was the term used in the original article, and I put it in quotation marks because I noted its non-equivalence to the other categories, which were mostly ethnic and national, rather than "racial.". I suspect they used it unreflectively, as a common colloquial term, but I also think that there is a point, in the context of this particular news story, in distinguishing Canadians of European descent whose families have been in the country for several generations from European-Canadians who have moved here in the course of their own lifetimes. The point (which is not quite the same as an "issue") is that Canadians of long-standing are rather blase about the importance and benefits of higher education compared to those who have been allowed into the country under current immigration procedures. I suspect, sadly, that this may ultimately lead to a kind of backlash in which under-educated Canadians-by-birth will come to resent the better -educated "new Canadians" (as they are sometimes called up here) who will begin to occupy the professional and managerial positions that the "old Canadians" have not made the effort to train themselves for. (Currently, however, the primary problem seems to be that we recruit these highly-skilled immigrants to come to the country, and then don't have a working system by which they can become credentialed in Canada as, e.g., doctors, engineers, etc., so they end up driving cabs, working in retail, etc. *That* is the real scandal.)
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