Canadian TD Visa Student

Grande_Antilles
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:48:36 +0000

You asked a good question.
When I say that you belong to where you were born, I mean people who were born in a country and grew up there. People who have a cultural tie to their land of birth and a strong emotional tie to it.

As far as someone who were born in another country but grew up somewhere else, I would say that home is not where you were born but where you grewp up. It’s like someone who was born in NY but grew up in California. that person wouldn’t call home NY but California.

But you know that even if you grew up in a country where you were born or not , even if you know that this place is where you belong and where your heart beats, sometimes you might be rejected by those who consider themselves as the real citizen of this place. For ex:
I was watching a documentary about Asian immigrants in the US, some of the kids were in born in the US and grew up here, others were born in China and Hong Kong but immigrate to the US at an early age. Since they grew up here, they identified themselves more to the american culture than to their parent’s culture however one of them said that sometimes people would remind her that she does not belong here because of the way she looks. The guy who create Yahoo was in the documentary, he himself said that he was sometimes confused because he knew that he did not belong to the Chinese culture since he grew up here but sometimes some of his school mate would give him this weird look because he did not look “American”. Almost all the characters in the documentary said that they were always waiting for the day, someone would told them " go back to where you come from" , go back to where you belong because you are not American you are Asian.

You see there can be some exception but I think that what matter the most is that the individual himself, still loves his land of birth or land of adoption regardless of what people say. Anyway, let’s not make an issue out of it and give everyone the choice to chose where they belong too.:D

Waw! I went and reread your answer and you are telling me that I am " ignorant and racist aren’t you? Let me guess, you have some citizenship in one of wealthy countries like UAE or Kuwait."? waw! I don’t see why you come up with this racist thing and why does race have to pop up here. All I was trying to talk was about patriotism. You probably got what I was saying in my post wrong because I was just telling Vicente that what he thought about the other guy was not really nice because even if He was an immigrant, the moment that you let him have a canadian citizenship, it means that you accept him in your country. So he should get the same benefit that all canadian citizen would get. It’s like if you let someone stay at your house at night because it’s raining outside, would you let him sleep on the bere floor or would you give him the warm bed, like you would do for your children and your brother? Nope , I am not from a communist country and where I come from, if there is no place in the house and a stranger wake my parents up in the middle of the night because he need a shelter, my siblings and I would put a bed sheet on the floor and let him sleep on our bed. Because once my parents, let him enter our house, he immediately become a part of the family. So he deserves hot breakfast in the morning and a hot shower, like my brothers and I get. Same things goes for immigrant or naturalized citizen.

And I say that you belong where you were born because whether you agree or not, there are some people who won’t ever accept you in their society if you were not born there. Jeez!! go take a cold shower than reread anything I wrote.