Xenophobia (was Re:jobs in Linux / IT)

[Christopher Charles]

FYI I speak the QUEEN'S english!

I came to Canada after spending 10 years in England.

Furthermore, I speak French too!

--- Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 
> [ I've renamed the subject to allow people to easily
> ignore this 
> offtopic sub-thread ]
> 
> 
> Christopher Charles wrote:
> 
> >Evan
> >
> >Have you checked my website ... especially the
> employment section at the bottom?
> >  
> >
> No, and I'm not going to bother. You've trolled on
> this list for cheap 
> page hits before. Tell me, _here_, the link is
> between what's on your 
> website and xenophobia.
> 
> >Observing my employment record, would you say  I
> have integrated?
> >  
> >
> Since I don't know you, it would be hard to tell
> from any employment 
> record whether you have made an effort to integrate,
> let alone 
> succeeeded. I know from first hand experience that
> some people choose 
> not to integrate, an option that appears to be
> accepted more in Canada 
> than in many other countries. (ie, how many police
> forces outside India 
> have an option of turbans as official headgear?) A
> xenophobic society 
> would be quite intolerant of such practise.
> 
> >Remember I have lived here for 30 years, most of my
> life.
> >
> And I have known a number of Canadians who went to
> their graves knowing 
> less than a dozen words of English, leaving children
> and siblings to 
> assist interaction with the outside world.
> 
> >I went to high school here not to mention college
> and university.
> >  
> >
> College *and* university? That's very odd, most
> people choose one path 
> or the other. Maybe you made some sub-optimal life
> choices, I don't know 
> you well enough to make an opinion on that. However,
> I would suggest 
> that blaming underachieving results on xenophobia is
> quite a stretch.
> 
> Given the topic at hand, how much of all that
> education was in anthropology?
> 
> - Evan
> 
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