Interesting thought.red said:if their ancestors immigrated here as well does it not make them immigrants as well?
That is why you are not involved in public policy. Thank God for that.onthebottom said:In my view either you were born here or not, who cares what your relatives did 50 - 500 years ago.
onthebottom said:In my view either you were born here or not, who cares what your relatives did 50 - 500 years ago.
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Why is that?n_v said:That is why you are not involved in public policy. Thank God for that.
That's what I used to think too. Then I had an argument/discussion with someone and we looked up the word in an Oxford dictionary. It does have one definition that includes ancestors who came from another country. However, I just checked my Gage Dictionary of Canadian and it does not. Thus, it seems to depend on the dictionary.strange1 said:immigrant [ɪməgrənt]
A noun
1 immigrant
a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there.
In other words, anyone who breathed their first breath in Canada is Canadian. Notice there is no mention of ethnicity, culture, or religion.