">>>Are you saying that in Canada, if I speak only Arabic, the school and television stations will handle all communications in Arabic and the vast majority of Canadians will converse with me in Arabic and I won't have to learn English or French?<<<"
If it is a large Arab community were to settle in a certain province - sure they would. But this was not my original message, you misinterpret it, as Canada being lenient and docile when it comes to language barriers. I was refering about how the U.S. decisively tries to make immigrants or legal residents learn English then their culture via all the methods I had mentioned.
">>>>>>>That's a very facist statement. As a matter of fact most of us are non-religious. I have never been in a mosque and I am not religious. My father is an atheist and my mother is a feminist who votes for the Green party candidate in every election. But I have an Arab surname and that's enough for Europeans like you to justify your xenophobic outlook toward Arabs, without knowing anything else about me. There is a minority of very vocal Muslims who want to impose Islamic law on all of the world and adhere to the whole caliphate nonsense. Most of us are not into that and yet in Europe we are all treated with the same disdain, not because we have individually attempted to impose ourselves, but because we are not French, or German. What about the extreme anti-Semitism throughout Europe? Do the Jews also try to impose Halacha on the rest of the population? We have not had a genocide in the US in this century. How many have you had? Bosnia, Hitler.... you have a funny perspective to accuse others of xenophobia and facism! In a glass house you throw a lot of stones.<<<<"
It is the truth, not a fascist statement. How is it a fascist statement? It may be nationalistic statement as Europeans are known to be secularists. A fascist statement would be the following: Europeans are the elite, and reason of the world and everybody else is just a corruption or backward version of our mindset. Don't twist statements to your liking. So you were brought up in a not very religious environment; so what, notwithstanding a minority of you enlighten muslims are not going to change the fact that in Europe many muslims are constantly testing their culture's laws / values unto the European secular system. The reason why Muslims may be discriminated by some Europeans is because they are testing Europeans to the limit, and gaining ground on certain laws and values, which is angrying many Europeans. The Jewish influence in Europe is noWHERE near the influence it has on the U.S.A - so quit spewing nonsense. This does not apply into the Mexican situation in the States yet many U.S. Americans detest Mexicans for unfounded or biased accusations.
The U.S. has had genocides against the Native-Americans. Why do you think they are not any more left in the U.S. but circa 3 million? When in reality, perhaps, half of them are mixed or partially mixed. The Americans strategically and decisvely annihilated them via: mala fide treaties, misplacement dogmas, Manifest Destiny, diseases and killings = genocide. Which proves in effect the British / Americans desired to take them out one by one, or have them fight against one another to have less of burden. And let us not forget how the U.S. seized Mexican land unjustly; without a just cause or reason.
If anything, the U.S. Americans are as guilty as the Europeans.
">>>>>>>>It's not xenophobic in the sense that it's anti-foreigner. You don't hear the same complaints in the US about Arab, Indian or Asian immigrants. My family is a family of immigrants who speak with accents, but we are middle class. When you see the issue up close, as I do, living in the US, you would realize that the anti-Mexican sentiment is largely a socioeconomic issue, which is expressed as resentment of the very poor. It's similar to the sentiments of West Germans toward East Germans after unification. Put another way, the same people who complain about Mexican influence on US way of life would complain just as much if Appalachian people from the mountiains of West Virginia moved into the rest of the US by the millions. Unlike Asians, Arabs or Indians, the poorest Mexicans can walk across the border into the US whereas the poorest of Arabs, etc cannot. You need a plane ticket to get here and so because we who come from a greater distance are not perceived as being poor, we are not reviled. Unfortunately there is probably not any country that will welcome the poorest of another country to live among the host country because the host country would rightly fear that these pooere people would be a drain on the economy. Why has France or Austria or Denmark not welcomed a few hundred thousand Palestinian refugees? Do you think people would complain in Denmark if a million secular Palestinians moved to Copenhagen? Would you yourself welcome a few million of the poorest of your own nationality? Be honest abotu this.<<<<<<"
Asians have been discriminated in the U.S. in the past, present and future. For example: the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the early 1900s, the Japanese during WW2 etc. The Arabs have only been recently mistreated because of 9/11 but even so in the past the Arabs were looked as subservient people with no power in the U.S.A - that is why 9/11 happened to clear up this view. As for the Indians - the Brits had their hands dirty with them in the past.
The anti-Mexican sentiment is simply because U.S. Americans are misinformed about the dynamics of U.S. (economic) imperialism, zombies to their government, and simply because some Americans are racist towards other minorites / races and get off on it. But, most importantly because the U.S. likes glorifying itself as the greatest in the world and its people believe it for many factors which are visible to them and what have you; so they discriminate against the so-called threats. The Mexicans not only flood the U.S. country by the thousands yearly but they also invest or contribute to it as well, without asking for any pats in the back. Sure...they may exploite some stuff (i.e., health-care) but that is fine...I mean they are not taking away any superior health plan for U.S. Americans. lol.
France, Austria and Denmark have had enough Arab migration to its country. Plus many of them (the Arabs going there) have already changed or twiked some of them laws to suit the immigrants or legal residents who have NOT had an historical tie with the land as do the Mexicans of the U.S.A. To answer your question: I would personally, though, welcome the million so-called secularist palestinians into my country as it lacks them tremendously; even though they are low income people but as a requirement they would have to prove themselves as do the Mexicans in the U.S. who does not care a rat's arse.
">>>Your perspective is limited by the propaganda you read no one is going to cause your mind to open even a little because you don't seem like the kind of person who will accept ideas that contradict ones that you have already adopted. It's like teh small town people in the US who will vote Republican no matter how horrible teh Republican candidate is. They have their bible and their religion and their flag and that's all they need. Science will not convince them that evolution is real. You are of the same close minded mindset but your religion is anti-Americanism and anti-Muslim. You aren't strong enough to admit when there's an area where you can learn something. For example, I am willing to admit that certain of my religion are a nuisance... as we in my family also view them. We are embarrassed by honor killings and jihad just as you would probably be if someone from your race acted as if he were living in the 10 century. This stereotype causes resentment I understand that and I try to act in a way that shows we are not all backwards. But it does not justify condeming an entire people, as you have justified. To make it worse, you are not willing to even see your own bias in this area because in your arrogance you believe you already know everything. This will prevent you from learning anything new. This is why Europe is stuck in their economic development, just as much of the Arab cultures are stuck, because of small mindedness. You will have another genocide and you will justify it.<<"
It is not propaganda as you say it is but a revelation which has been happening since 8 years ago, and the even before, but not as drastic as the past 8 years ago of drastic change towards the U.S.A. becoming more and more fascist, egotistical and regressed.
Anti-muslim? lol. When did I indicate I was anti-Muslim? All I had stated was that Muslims are very cunning in foreign lands - that's it. Now, of course the bible belt people of the U.S.A won't see anything beyond their horizon - naturally - that is because those values have become ingrained in those particular areas and have vast support from its own country to be that way. Plus, in those areas HIGH enlistment for the Marines, Army and Navy are high in numbers so this could also play factor of why the government needs these ignorant people.
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