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Originally Posted by rousseau
What could possibly be wrong about not welcoming massive changes to the essential character of your neighbourhood or community? Your notion that one should simply "evolve" past that is incredibly sinister.
That is precisely what the Communist Party of China wants Tibetans to do as they shift Han Chinese to Tibet in order to change the demographics and prevent Tibetan independence movements.
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A lot of the glee associated with the decline of the power of"white Anglos" or even "white Euros" for lack of a better term, is related to turnabout-is-fair-play, ie you did it to indigenous people, so it's only fair that people from countries X, Y and Z do it to you.
History is history and we can't change what happened, but if we think that a whole bunch of people moving to a place and snubbing their noses (or worse) at the people already there, taking control of things due to numerical superiority, and changing the way of a place more or less unilaterally, is a bad thing (because it's ''colonialism"), then it seems like what some people have in mind isn't a recipe for a future of milk and honey.
This isn't even a question of preferring having white cashiers at the grocery or a fondness for the dour, reserved British demeanour.
It's about what's best for social peace.
The imposition of different ways on an geographically established group, against their will, almost always leads to strife and division.
BTW this is not to say that the majority of newcomers to Canada actually want this. I think that most of them don't.
Ironically I think that most people who get a hard-on thinking of the exotic ways of newcomers taking root and being predominant in Canada aren't actually newcomers themselves, but Canadians of longer establishment who fetishize such things as an escape from the banality of their own colourless culture.