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Originally Posted by GlassCity
I think about this often. Some of my white friends talk about the need to accommodate immigrants more by, for example, having more public signage be multi-multi-lingual. As in, not just English or French but Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog, etc.
My response to this is how do you know that's what those immigrants want? For example, I know immigrants who ask their children to speak English with them so they can practice. Or that complain that there are too many people like them in the workplace so their English doesn't improve there. Would additional accommodation not run counter to those peoples' wants?
I know minorities stick up for themselves all the time, but I do find it funny when non-immigrants try to come up with solutions to problems that they decided were important themselves.
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Aside from the baseline "not being discriminated against for who we are or what we are or how we are", there is no unanimity as to what immigrants want in terms of a welcome from Canada. There are as many views on this as there are immigrants.
A lot of what is on offer is just non-immigrant Canadians thinking that immigrants might like or need this or that.
Of course if something is offered people will take it. Similar to if you offer me a free beer I might take it even if I wasn't itching to drink a beer.
So sure, information ofnthe City of Edmonton's recycling program in Punjabi might get some uptake from the community if you put it out there. That doesn't necessarily mean the Sikh community in the city would have been unhappy without it.
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