Canada

Nationally, racialized citizens now make up over 26 per cent of Canada’s population, with South Asians and Chinese Canadians the two largest groups.

What does "racialized" mean?

Propaganda works.

I can’t believe how so many of them want to still vote for the very same people who have been scapegoating them for the coronavirus.

I mean, as a group, both Asian groups I have experience with (Japanese and Chinese) are extremely racist (especially against other Asians) on average.

They also tend to be wealthier, and would benefit more from the tax breaks that Conservatives tend to be spouting.

I’ve definitely heard of irrational hatred towards the Libs from South Asians, but not so much from those of Chinese descent, but tbf my real life circle isn’t that big and we don’t really talk about politics. As an immigrant myself from a similar demographic (am Southeast Asian), I have to say that I don’t understand this rightward shift in voting sentiments. Is it cause they’ve never been under Harper, or never heard of what things were like under him? (I’ve only been here since Trudeau) The Cons never came across as being friendly to non-Whites, and that should already be a warning sign.

But afaik, a good number of the Chinese that I know of are generally supportive of being tough on crime and see Canada as being unsafe, especially the older generation. They praise China for having strong police presence and for its seemingly lower crime rate, and then says things like, “It’ll never be like that in Canada. And to think that we came here because it used to be bad there and was much safer here.” One that I’ve talked to said that he supports the CPC for being tough on crime (allegedly I would say, but nonetheless), and support scaling back immigration even further to hopefully bring back how Canadians used to be much more friendlier (he sees the large increase in new immigrants as a reason why Canadians have become less friendly overall). Perhaps to these people, they would rather trade being possibly oppressed for a chance of having lower crime rate? Idk how that’s more assuring from a safety standpoint but it makes sense to them.

I have doubts about a pursuit of whiteness and model minority stereotyping. No matter what immigrants or their children do, they'll always be hyphenated-Canadians at best, facing discrimination, suspicion, and hatred from "real" Canadians, conservative or not.

Instead the factors are much more tangible-the current government has overseen the relationships with both countries degrade severely, with severe impact to these groups. When you're trying to care for a sick grandparent abroad or whatever else, the last thing you want is a two-faced political approach that risks having you stranded away from home.

And then what role did the government have in building up the current levels of hate towards immigrants with their policies? For decades academia has been allowed to turn international students into cash cows with zero regard for their quality of life. Businesses whining about wages getting too high after the pandemic meant that immigrants were brought in with no place to live and no livable income. And then scapegoated for cost of living increases spawned by decades of bad policy, by the governments who brought them in.

Immigrants are expected to put in to a system that'll have them work twice as hard to get half as much, if that, and hate them for it. It's not "I got mine, fuck you", it's "you'll never give me mine, I'm just an exploitable tax base to you, we're not going to pretend anymore".

The ladder calls for them