I'm just wondering if you guys consider this racism? My family has been in Canada since the colonization by the Europeans (on my father's side). Now we have been here for a looooong time and we've been through the bad times and the good times over the past few hundred years. some of our ancestors helped build this country.
So it pisses my dad off when someone who obviously is a new immigrant comes in with pins & stickers & etc. that are basically saying "down with gay marriage", and etc (gay marriage is legal in Canada, and my dad is gay). That is just one example, but what about when other people in my family get upset and sometimes downright mad when we get immigrants who want to bend the laws so they can sort of impose their culture unto the rest of the country.
For example a guy did not want to wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle on the highway, because he had a turban. Or the right to allow Kirpans in schools (a Kirpan is a small knife) to accommodate religious groups (keep in mind knives are weapons). Another one is one man refusing to wear the imposed uniform of an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officer because he had a turban and didn't want wear the regulatory hat. Is it racist to get mad at these people and complain?
I mean, think about it this way : you invite a person into your house, for let's say dinner. And they decide to rearrange all of your living room and furniture because they think that your house should look more like theirs. Or they start to comment on how you should be raising your kids and that you're doing a bad job. Wouldn't you get insulted and mad at them for that? I mean, they're in your home thanks to you being nice to them, and they turn around and do something insulting...
So it pisses my dad off when someone who obviously is a new immigrant comes in with pins & stickers & etc. that are basically saying "down with gay marriage", and etc (gay marriage is legal in Canada, and my dad is gay). That is just one example, but what about when other people in my family get upset and sometimes downright mad when we get immigrants who want to bend the laws so they can sort of impose their culture unto the rest of the country.
For example a guy did not want to wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle on the highway, because he had a turban. Or the right to allow Kirpans in schools (a Kirpan is a small knife) to accommodate religious groups (keep in mind knives are weapons). Another one is one man refusing to wear the imposed uniform of an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officer because he had a turban and didn't want wear the regulatory hat. Is it racist to get mad at these people and complain?
I mean, think about it this way : you invite a person into your house, for let's say dinner. And they decide to rearrange all of your living room and furniture because they think that your house should look more like theirs. Or they start to comment on how you should be raising your kids and that you're doing a bad job. Wouldn't you get insulted and mad at them for that? I mean, they're in your home thanks to you being nice to them, and they turn around and do something insulting...
