Curious Newbee, I will not slam you buddy. All I will say is this - I love this country and all that it provides. Like you, sometimes I feel immigrants take Canada for granted. I feel it when Khadr' family abuses the hospitality of this nation. I felt it when so many "used" Canada for citizenship-of-convenience during the crisis in Lebanon last year. My pyramid rant was merely a response to the anti-immigrant rant from another Terbite.
Having said this, I do wish to respond to a comment that you made. You said "If you have to bring your wars with you and abuse the legal rights you do have, then, please, do us all a favour and go fight your battles where they are currently raging". Immigrants are not machines. They are people with feelings. If they grow up with certain values and culinary preferences, it cannot be shed off overnight once they enter Canada. Besides they cannot be expected to cut off all family connection with their relatives in their birth-country. When a relative in their birth-country suffers, they cannot but feel the pain.
I do feel though, that if an immigrant comes here, and starts imposing his values onto others, then it is taking it too far.
Unlike you and I, who made a conscious decision to immigrate to Canada because we were educated and wanted a better life, most of the Sri Lankan Tamils were driven out by their government. They were mostly illiterate or semi-literate rural folks who were forced out of their home. They settled wherever they could - majority settled in India, some fled to Canada, UK, Germany, France etc. If they cannot speak proper English, if they act like rural bumpkins, if they do not understand the Canadian system, don't ridicule them. ... empathize with them instead.
