Texas gets a bad rap. Here's why so many people are moving here.

[ElCastor]

Just recently, we have had something called "Turban Days." I was out of this country for 2 months so I don't know if that was some sort of special day or just a bit of humour? More and more these days I don't recognize certain aspects of my country.

Birth rates in the US, Canada, and the rest of the First World, have fallen below replacement rate, largely I suppose because of the availability of birth control and the cost of raising and educating kids. Without immigration we would all find ourselves in the plight of Japan, with a shrunken aging population. Third World is still churning out babies, so the many members of their excess populations have found their way to more prosperous shores. Problem is they no doubt bring their third world problems and mindset with them. In the end what will this mean for those First World countries, or should I say former First World?
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/total-fertility-rate/country-comparison

 

[StarSong]

Ha, ha! You think you should start brush up on you "esponola?" Here in Canada we have a huge flood of East Indians over the last year. I'm sorry for our French Canadians who will become a minority in their own country. I think in the future, Hindi will be taught in our schools rather than French. Perhaps we will have to learn how to put on a turban? Not in my time but I'm talking about the future!

Just recently, we have had something called "Turban Days." I was out of this country for 2 months so I don't know if that was some sort of special day or just a bit of humour? More and more these days I don't recognize certain aspects of my country.

There's a tremendous irony about people complaining that modern immigration is changing the races, religions, traditions and languages of North America, South America, Australia, and other countries whose indigenous inhabitants were summarily stripped of their land, rights, offspring, traditions, religions, languages, and in an overwhelming number of cases, their very lives. Mostly by ancestors of people who are doing the complaining.

 

[Wayne]

And I would never/ever move to the west coast per my political beliefs.

 

[ElCastor]

There's a tremendous irony about people complaining that modern immigration is changing the races, religions, traditions and languages of North America, South America, Australia, and other countries whose indigenous inhabitants were summarily stripped of their land, rights, offspring, traditions, religions, languages, and in an overwhelming number of cases. their very lives. Mostly by ancestral people who are doing the complaining.

On the other hand, with some success those indigenous inhabitants did their best to resist being stripped. Can't blame many current indigenous inhabitants from also doing their best to resist.

 

[Old Salt]

There's a tremendous irony about people complaining that modern immigration is changing the races, religions, traditions and languages of North America, South America, Australia, and other countries whose indigenous inhabitants were summarily stripped of their land, rights, offspring, traditions, religions, languages, and in an overwhelming number of cases. their very lives. Mostly by ancestral people who are doing the complaining.

Not only that but @Packerjohn's fears are unwarranted and exaggerated. Quebec already has a French Language Law that protects the language and East Indians are a welcome addition, they are smart, well educated, hard working people! We in the Maritimes would welcome them with open arms! But I do understand! With old age comes a certain reluctance to face major changes and Canada has changed greatly since I first arrived back in the fifties!

I guess being an immigrant myself I am a bit more tolerant. I remember being called a DP (even though I wasn't) and told with much venom that I should have stayed home rather then take a job away from a local boy! Their "boys" wouldn't have worked for 80 cents an hour, that's why we got the jobs!

 

[StarSong]

Not only that but @Packerjohn's fears are unwarranted and exaggerated. Quebec already has a French Language Law that protects the language and East Indians are a welcome addition, they are smart, well educated, hard working people! We in the Maritimes would welcome them with open arms! But I do understand! With old age comes a certain reluctance to face major changes and Canada has changed greatly since I first arrived back in the fifties!

I guess being an immigrant myself I am a bit more tolerant. I remember being called a DP (even though I wasn't) and told with much venom that I should have stayed home rather then take a job away from a local boy! Their "boys" wouldn't have worked for 80 cents an hour, that's why we got the jobs!

What's a DP?

 

[Nathan]

All this said, I'd never move from the west coast because of my strong political beliefs.

^^this^^

 

[Old Salt]

What's a DP?

Displaced Person, an accurate description of people who were displaced from their homes as they fled the advancing Soviet Army in 1945, and had no passports with them to prove their citizenship! They were mostly from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania as well as from East Prussia. They ended up in camps for years because the authorities couldn't decide what to do with them and no one wanted to take them. For some reason, calling someone a DP became an insult. Maybe because they were homeless?

 

[Manatee]

Idaho and Montana seem like better moves to me.

Way too much winter up there.

 

[StarSong]

Displaced Person, an accurate description of people who were displaced from their homes as they fled the advancing Soviet Army in 1945, and had no passports with them to prove their citizenship! They were mostly from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania as well as from East Prussia. They ended up in camps for years because the authorities couldn't decide what to do with them and no one wanted to take them. For some reason, calling someone a DP became an insult. Maybe because they were homeless?

Thank you for the clear, complete explanation. I didn't know about this part of Canadian history.

 

[Raddragn]

I found the people to be "passive aggressive" and, at least in the city, people weren't very friendly.

I can't completely disagree there, but I have found that to be true in other areas. I often found such attitudes among other nurses - why, I have no idea. Just went about doing my job and mostly ignored it. One of the reasons I ended my nursing career in working with juveniles LOL

 

[Old Salt]

Thank you for the clear, complete explanation. I didn't know about this part of Canadian history.

It wasn't so much Canadian history because most displaced persons were in camps in Europe. But for some reason, young Canadian rednecks (yes, we had them too) liked to call immigrants DPs, meant as an insult! Probably in the U.S. as well at that time!

 

[StarSong]

It wasn't so much Canadian history because most displaced persons were in camps in Europe. But for some reason, young Canadian rednecks (yes, we had them too) liked to call immigrants DPs, meant as an insult! Probably in the U.S. as well at that time!

Maybe so. Being born in the 50s, that would have been over and done with by the time I would have that kind of awareness.