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There's been a lot of debate over immigration -- local
and foreign. As the US is in the midst of a crisis and
Canada under the Conservative Stephen Harper is also
turning into anti-minority, immigration is come under
fire from the right-wing forces.
Europe too has seen its share of troubles. Though the
US periodically breaks into mayhem over immigration,
Canada and Australia see the issue to the forefront
periodically.
On the issue of a Toronto-based Tamil group banned for
its alleged terrorist links by the Canadian government
and the subsequest debate if the new government is
anti-immigrant, here's one quote from a Canadian list.
--Giacomo Cardinal Biffi, archbishop of Bologna, who
created a stir on September 12, 2000, by writing that:
"The criteria for admitting immigrants can never be
just economic. It is necessary to concern oneself
seriously with saving the nation's own identity. Italy
is not a deserted land, without history, without
living and vital traditions, without an unmistakable
cultural and spiritual physiognomy, to be populated
indiscriminately, as if it were not a model legacy of
humanism and culture that must not be allowed to
disappear."
--
I believe the bishop was talking of the period when
the wave of new immigrants was threatening Italy. The
quote's logic has been applied to keep out those
immigrants who do not fall into the category of
cultural ethos.
Many in Goa feel that outsiders coming to settle in
Goa do not fall into the Goan cultural and social mix.
There's no doubt the indiscrimination on colour, race
and ethnicity prevails subtly in Canada, the ethnics
have made lot of progress.
The battle for equality continues to be fought in the
corridors of power and academia. Indo-Canadians have
been one of the groups in the forefront of this
struggle.
To the new Conservative government's credit, a public
enquiry has been ordered into the Air India crash. The
ousted Liberals and before that the Mulroney
government had not found it necessary to set up a
commission.
The Harpen government have may scored a major
political point in gaining support from the
Indo-Canadians, who form part of the minority
community.
Among the South Asians in Toronto, the Tamils (most of
them from Sri Lanka) were close to overcoming the
Sikhs in terms of population.
eugene
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