White Guilt: A creation by ourselves

[SvennoJ]

barneystinson69 said:

SvennoJ said:
I'm white, mostly. My mother escaped from Indonesia to the Netherlands when she was about four years old. Her older sister died in a Japanese camp where my grandmother was held.
My father's side of the family is from Germany and Belgium, my grandparents already lived in the Netherlands. My grandfather was taken and spend most of the 2nd ww in a German work camp.
Technically I'm a second generation immigrant, well first now again since I moved to Canada in 2002.

So white guilt? What for? I guess I'm a filthy immigrant, moving to Canada while I was in no danger in the Netherlands :)

Are you trying to make me feel sorry for you? My father had to escape iran during the revolution, and when he came here, was treated like shit. It was like that for almost 10 years. My mother was also just a new born when she had to escape hungary in 1956 with her parents.

No, I'm just a bit confused by your ideas and generalizations.
Immigration laws are not determined by white guilt. It's more to do with the necessity of a growing population not to get overburdened by the ageing population. These immigrants and their kids will pay for you're old age pension and facilities.

I haven't seen any problems with immigration here in Canada. In the Netherlands it was all about integration, spread them out over the country, mix up the populations. Here it's a much more casual attitude. When I took the bus to the airport in Toronto (not the shuttle) there were whole stretches where I was the only white person on the bus. It was like, damn I'm already on holiday and I haven't even made it to the airport :)
Where I live it's mostly Europeans that moved out here. I can buy all kinds of dutch food at my local discount supermarket. I had a dutch dentist, dutch lawyer, and I wasn't even looking for them. It's funny how people end up in the same places.

Take a step back, have faith in your fellow immigrants to teach them the Canadian values.