Reading these posts make me proud to be Canadian?

Question

Why are SOME (alot if you read some of these posts) Americans so harsh towards there fellow man? All I read is racist remarks regarding mexican people, gay people etc. I mean Canada has it's illegal people here as well but I would be embarrassed if I heard any of that crap. Canada has alot of East Indian and Asian people here but if they come here and work and make a living for themselves. All the power to them. As long as they are contributing to Canada. If they commit crimes then back you go. Someone tell me why SOME american people think they are on top and everyone else is below them? How can ALL mexican people be the same?

Steve P, you have proved my point, thank you for showing just how anal you are!

Answer 1

Yea, go Canada

I am an American and I think that this illegal immigration issue is a front for racial prejudice. The supposed key issue is protecting our borders from terrorists. To do that all that is needed is increased security, more patrols and a longer wall. The biggest joke running around now is that a wall is needed between the US and Mexico, and illegal immigrants will be hired to build it.

Besides terrorists won’t want to walk 3 days across the desert having to carry gallons of water and being forced to pay for a guide. No they will use their passports (forged or legal) to fly into the country comfortably, so they can perform their dirty deeds. Or they will cross the Canadian border, which is much easier to do (and no that isn’t Canada’s fault, they are trying to help—which their recent year long terrorist investigation proved).

Yes, I do have problems with illegal immigrants. I don’t have a problem with people coming to America to improve their life—that’s the principle that our country and Canada were founded on. Both nations can claim to be a nation of immigrates, and Canada is well known for its generous acceptance policy. Some Hispanics are murders, drug dealers, and drug smugglers. But then, so are a lot of others.

Both America and Canada are great countries with a lot of unused land (although we need to develop the land first). We can accept more citizens, and more people will give us more power as citizens pay taxes, serve in the military and contribute to the society in hundreds of ways.

It has been proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that illegal immigrates contribute to our economy and do work that Americans don’t want to do. Some Americans may want fast food type jobs, and have to compete with Hispanics for them, but very few Americans want to be sharecroppers. Florida has predicted an orange shortage this year, because the crack-down on illegal aliens has restricted the work force that usually picks the oranges, so many of the oranges are going to rot on the tree; unpicked.

George W. Bush had the right idea with a liberal migrant worker program. But, Congress shouted him down. If he were really running the country, instead of being a figurehead and scapegoat, then he would have tried getting something done on that issue, instead he took a vacation to Crawford. At least there he can do something useful, by giving Cindy Sheehan someone to yell at.

Illegal Immigrants often don’t pay federal taxes, but even with a job at a fast food place they do. They should speak the language, and many do. They should also not become isolationists in America and join the mainstream society, which some do. They can’t help being brown or being Hispanic nor more than I can help the fact that I am white. That is no reason to hate them though.

Hispanics are quickly becoming the majority minority so we need to accept them and not resent them. Their stereotype is of hard working people willing to accept low paying jobs to help their families in Mexico; which isn’t a bad stereotype. This stupid illegal immigrant crack down has the American politicians cutting Americas economic throat. America is beginning to treat Hispanics like they treated the Japanese during WWII. Back then; in the dark days of racial hatred, we didn’t trust the Japanese or Oriental, just because they were Japanese looking, so we stuck them into interment (concentration) camps. I hate to think that in the sixty years since WWII we haven’t gotten any better.

Answer 2

Living in Detroit, Ontario is just like home, not a foreign country. I get CBC, watch hockey and curling, Tim Horton's is my drug, say ",eh" every other sentence, etc. So I get a unique perspective as an "Canadian-American" so to speak. Hahaha... Every time I go to Canada, I am amazed by the level of cleanliness, politeness, and overall workings of society. It might as well be a whole new world. I appreciate Canada for what it is.

Case in point. One night, me and my buddy were drinking and decided to prank people in Regina at 11 p.m. at night posing as jockeys from a Detroit radio station. We called businesses and residences. We talked to Western Pizza for over 30 minutes, met everyone on the staff, talked hockey for 15 of those minutes, and successfully petitioned the owner of the shop to give their teenage employee a modest raise!

We woke an old grandma up, who did not get angry, but carefully told us that people might not appreciate you calling at such a time and then proceeded to answer our "fake" music questions. She then thanked us before hanging up.

It got to the point after a while that me and my buddy were no longing getting a kick out of pranking, but more of an admiration of the people of Regina and Canadians in general.

We could have only imagined how the responces would have differed had we chosen Los Angeles or New York to target instead. Hahaha....

Answer 3

Hi Kim S,

So happy to hear some common
sense. I have many ideas of why,
but no proven answers.

It pains me to see how some Citizens of
the United States of America (don´t forget
Canada and Mexico are North America, and
then there is Central and South America)
are so thankless. Bashing is becoming
increasingly popular and it is scary. It seems
people are most unhappy with their own lives
so they turn around and bash whomever they
can get away with. Again, this applies to some
USAers, not the majority, but those who do it
embarrass the rest of us.

Happy you are proud to be a citizen of your
great country!

By the way, what is a good place to live in Canada?

Answer 4

All Mexican people are not the same some come to USA to work and are good people. But a lot come to sell drugs and raise the crimb rate and join gangs and kill people.
There are more people killed in California by Mexican immigrants than has been killed in Iraq. Was in the Fresno Bee newspaper.
Los Angeles and San Francisco has a high portion of gays and they have marches and gay parades and they are quite vulgar.
Be glad all you have to contentend with is snow.

Answer 5

I'm an American and I agree with you. I do not feel that we are on top, or that anyone else is below us. I'm ashamed of my government and what they are inflicting upon the rest of the world. I'm also ashamed that so many Americans are racist, homophobic, idiots.
However, it's just a portion of the American people that are like this, you cannot judge all of us by what is said on this site. I still believe that most Americans are kind hearted, compassionate, caring people.
I guess that is just the downside to our freedom and democracy. We still allow the ignorant to reproduce and continue their hatred.

Answer 6

ALL Mexican people are NOT the same. For the most part, we Americans have no problem at all with people who come here LEGALLY - as in going through the proper immigration proceedings. What we DO have a problem with, however, is the millions of people of ANY race, who sneak in to our country ILLEGALLY, and proceed to steal our jobs, and then send the money back to their families, who are waiting to sneak in also, thus perpetuating the initial problem. Please get your facts straight before you start whining about something that doesn't even concern you.

Answer 7

I was just thinking the same thing myself - for the same reasons. Everytime I log into Yahoo Answers I find reason to be proud of my Canadian heritage.

Years ago I participated in a University Exchange Program where I attended an American University for one year.

In that year I found myself accepted as an equal, classmates discussed and argued politics with me quite easily. I was neither an American Resident or Citizen. However, I noticed that American citizens with Latino heritage were not treated equal and were treated as foreigners - I was the foreigner and they were the citizens!

It's good to see another proud Canadian.

Answer 8

Viva Canada.

Answer 9

It's pretty clear you don't know what you're talking about. What do you know about America's problems except what your left wing newscasters tell you. There is racism everywhere so don't stand on your soap box a preach that "Holyer Then Thou" crap. As far as Canada is concerned, when did they ever step to the for front in a world crisis?

We don't have problems with legal aliens, only illegal aliens and so does Canada. Your problem little girl is that you don't have your facts in order. If you had done your own research instead of getting your information by hearsay, you wouldn't have stuck your foot in you BIG mouth.

Answer 10

Not all americans are racist like you think. Not everyone in the world has posted in yahoo answer's so that doesn't represent all of the americans in the world, so you can't just go by all these post's.