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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Leto
What I think is the trend that is disturbing is the establishment of what people are calling "ethnoburbs" which is where there is a huge agglomeration of one type of cultural community taking over a large area of town. For example (locals know these areas): Chinese in Markham, Pakistani/Bengali in Brampton, Tamils in Scarborough or St James Town and to a lesser extent, Jamaican in North York (jane/finch).
To me, this isn't multiculturalism. it's a form of ghettoization, where there is a lack of mixing, of the salad that is multiculturalism. So we get a homogenous soup, an island of the old world that is a departure from the basic cultural norm of the nation, and no attempt is made to integrate which is a basic tenet of multiculturalism.
The end result are cases where the immigrants from the old world try to keep the old world "happening" in the new world to such an extent, that they lose sight of the need to integrate.
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It isn't much different than the immigration spurts of America in the 1700's and 1800s. People ghettoized their neighborhoods, but there was a fundamental mindset difference wherein the culture was shed as the immigrants wanted to their children to have a better life from their homelands.
This is what Ustwo is refferring to as I understand what he wrote.
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