Racism and hard working immigrants

So I hear the anti immigration mob is expanding to include some anti Punjabi comments in Brampton. We need to calm the f*ck down and look at the big picture. I was raised in Surrey. My daughter had a friend from India visit and she said wow, you have more Punjabi's here in Surrey than we do in India. Evidently she didn't live in the state of Punjab.

My point is, Canada and America have been built by hard working immigrants. They key word here is hard working. If you bring in a bunch of people who don't want to work or a bunch of criminals out of jail, that is a recipe for disaster. Nevertheless, normal immigration where people aren't sponsored by the government is a recipe for growth.

When I visited London in the /80's I did find it a bit racist. I kinda felt like I didn't belong. I ended up getting a flat in Brixton right around the corner from the Front Line. I really liked the Caribbean community. Obviously not all of London was like that. I met a lot of really nice Brits. It's just that I did feel a bit of a stiff shirt element and the football hooligans were dicks.

Belfast Loyalists were racist. So now we need to balance the extremes. We need to shun mass migration of government sponsored migrants who are criminals or don't want to work, with the long-standing tradition of hard working immigrants. This Brampton hate for Punjabis is a bit dysfunctional. Anyone who knows anything about Punjabis knows they are hard working and contribute to society. Most of the truckers in my work place are Punjabi.

Don't get me started on Asians. Chinatown is the heartbeat of Vancouver. They are all very hard working. You rarely see an Asian crackhead stealing sh*t. You see a lot of white trash dong that. Look at Canada's soccer team. They are predominately black and they rock. I still support the great Canadian mosaic. Diversity makes us strong. Canada is the land of hope for all who toil.

One of the reasons I wanted to raise my kids in Surrey is because it's multicultural. After high school my son was playing in a symphony in Asia. Someone asked him if he felt uncomfortable being the only white person in the entire symphony. He was kind of surprised by the question and said no, it kind of feels like my high school. Both my kids are very good at foreign languages.