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Image from Citizenshift.org
I was interrupted while doing some research by a consistent monologue outside in what sounded like an Indian language, which went on for about 5-10 minutes before I looked out my window. Below were three Indians. Two were well-dressed, professional looking men, one of whom was constantly wiping his brow from the heat with a smartly folded handkerchief. The non-stop speaker was in drab, black, knee-length shorts, with his shirt hanging out, and greasy longish hair.
At first, I couldn't understand why these two well-dressed men stood silent (and sweating) in the midst of this verbal barrage. Then I heard the slovenly man say: "immigration," "employment," "mosque" and "Canada." I tried to catch a few more familiar words in English before making my assessment. None came, so here is what I think.
The slovenly man is the authority on Canada, immigration, employment, and apparently mosques too. He is dressed (albeit more drably) in the casual shorts and shirt-hanging-out uniform of many people, although I think his attire is a combination of his leftist "fashion" sense and of poverty. But, poor people used to have more dignity than that, at least by looking clean. His audience of two silent men are recent immigrants.
If I were them, I would make a quick exit back to India, or wherever they came from. If this is the outcome of a Canadian residency, an unkempt (unclean?), badly dressed, former countryman, then who wants to stay in Canada? And what Muslim looks like him, (or like them, for that matter)?
Foreigners who immigrate here for economic reasons are actually worse off than if they were back in their countries of origin (source: pdf file, page 31), despite being the "cream of the crop" and having produced: substantial sums of money, proof of higher education, and a good employment history in order to process their immigration papers.
Coming to Canada doesn't guarantee prosperity down the generational road either. Here (pdf file, page 32) is another study that shows third generation immigrants fare worse than their parents, and not that much better than their grandparents. Even mainstream papers have reported this. Data like these are hard to come by, and don't show the paradisiacal lifestyle that proponents of immigration advertise. The only ones who gain anything (if it is any gain) are refugees, who are immediately put on welfare, and stay on it for years, if not decades. More prosperous immigrants also go on welfare, or eventually accept demeaning or lower level jobs with little material or personal compensations.
So, I'm not surprised that this fast-talking expert looks like the one who just stepped off the boat, while the other voiceless two are much more presentable. I bet he's also telling them what a racist country Canada is, and how much worse it is for Muslims like them (and him). But, I'll wager that he's one of those "cultural" Muslim with little respect for religion, who uses that "identity" as ammunition to gun down to submission those racist, white Canadians.