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by dietr1ch on Friday January 03, 2025 @06:37PM
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There's a certain amount of people that can adapt to a place, but if too many people of common culture comes in they just hijack the place. In Canada it seems to me they didn't establish the limit properly and people also worked around it by moving within Canada disregarding the agreement that they'd stay in a certain zone that still had some slack of people they could integrate.
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Hijacking deprives someone else of their rights. Living differently than your neighbor doesn’t change anything for your neighbor. Nothing is “hijacked”.
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by yhg56fgniyfv on Friday January 03, 2025 @07:39PM
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If all your neighbors no longer spoke English, you don't think that would affect you?
Obviously that's an extreme example, but other cultural differences will affect you as well.
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by BobaFloutist on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:08PM
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If they all spoke a common language, I'd try to learn a bit of it. How exciting!
It's also exciting to experience ethnic clashes between rival groups of immigrants[1].
[1] https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/11/03/violence-at-hindu-tem...
"Wow all these Goths have moved into my town, but they don't speak Latin, they speak Gothic. How exiting!"
- Anonymous Roman Citizen, 412 AD
It can be a really cool thing too if both cultures open each other to exchange languages and celebrations, but it requires a lot of effort from everyone.
No, I don’t. This is already the case in many neighborhoods in the USA and the sky isn’t falling in those places.
Also, I live in Germany half of the year, and there most of my neighbors don’t speak any English, and my neighborhood is fine. I don’t see the problem you are describing with your example.
If that’s your “extreme” example, I am curious what your day-to-day ones would be.
Perhaps it’s uncharitable but I am having a hard time seeing how this doesn’t alias to simple racism.
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by yhg56fgniyfv on Saturday January 04, 2025 @04:13PM
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I didn't claim the "sky would fall". I just claimed it would affect you.
I think most would agree that it is easier to form connections with those who are more similar to oneself. Call it racism or tribalism if you want, but that's reality.
I think it hijacks the local culture, there's probably a better word, but I'm no native.
It's mind boggling you are denying the fact that having many people from the same group clustered in a "multicultural" environment has no impact on society has a whole. Of course it does, this is why we have laws protecting minorities, it's irrelevant how the majority is established (either per-existing or minority suddenly growing), the impact may be positive but it's naive to assume it will always be so.