Thought-provoking comments from our Canadian members, but I suspect that Chris' suggestion that the large numbers of ethnically diverse people in a city or area make acceptance a given. We lived near Lowell, Massachusetts for 2 1/2 decades - from 1974 to 1998. While we were there, the numbers of Cambodian immigrants continued to swell, until Lowell had more immigrants than any other city except for Long Beach, California. In the 1970's, over 10% of its population was Cambodian - up to 35,000 in the area. Additionally, there was/is a high number of immigrants from many other nations - Koreans, East Indians, Vietnamese, and others. If Chris' comments are correct, then one would suspect that the Lowell area must have welcomed the Cambodians and other ethnic minorities since there were so many of them. Sadly, I don't think anyone would describe Lowell as generally having an "accommodating culture" - at least not at that time.
Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Christopher D. Green <[email protected]>wrote: > > > [email protected] wrote: > > So I was delighted to see a positive piece on us in the New York > Times this morning concerning our treatment of immigrants. I > especially liked this: > > "Canada also has a more accommodating political culture - > one that accepts more pluribus and demands less unum". > > See http://tinyurl.com/2u6dxag > > > This is all true, but it hardly seems like "news." Toronto was named the > most ethnically diverse city in the world something like a decade ago (The > city now features three distinct "China towns.") Vancouver, though not as > diverse as Toronto, has had vast Chinese and Sikh communities since before I > lived there in the 1980s. Even Montreal (hamstrung a bit by periodic > "nationalist" governments), has largish (French-speaking) Haitian and > Vietnamese communities (in addition to their long-standing Italian and Greek > populations). Calgary and even Winnipeg have historically had sizeble > immigrant populations too. I wonder why the New York Times decided to pick > this up now. > > Best, > Chris > =========== > > Stephen > > -------------------------------------------- > Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology, Emeritus > Bishop's University > Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada > e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca > ------------------------------ > --------------- > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0da&n=T&l=tips&o=6457 > or send a blank email to > leave-6457-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > -- > > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > Canada > > > > 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 > [email protected] > http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ > > ========================== > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72&n=T&l=tips&o=6459 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-6459-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=6461 or send a blank email to leave-6461-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
