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ryandraketoday at 5:17 PM3 repliesview on HN

What does "preserve the social fabric" mean?


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poncho_romerotoday at 5:21 PM

Because there are so many Indians around, newly arrived Indians tend to spend most of their time with other Indians, and as a result don't integrate with the rest of society as much as previously waves of immigrants did. Canada is a cultural mosaic, but a certain degree of intermixing and assimilation is necessary, in my opinion, to preserve social and national bonds.

debo_today at 5:21 PM

It's what the Irish said to us Italians when we were immigrating to Canada in droves.

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jacquesmtoday at 5:47 PM

It's a dog whistle for 'keeping Canada white'. There are a lot of racists in Canada.