Hmmm... I don't necessarily think it's the host country that is the problem. Being in Vancouver, what I see are large communities of immigrants trying very much to keep to their own kind and live as they did in their home countries. It's not segregation, but I would say it's more people locating themselves where they see familiar faces. The problem with that is there is less motivation to really integrate into the rest of society... here we have people from (just an example) China who have lived here since childhood and well into old age who have never learned english. They just hid themselves in Chinatown and only left out of necessity. Although, why relocate to another country if you'... I was an immigrant and fortunately for me I came as a child and into an environment where I had little access to people from "the homeland". My parents fortunately made friends easily with all cultures, so my childhood friends were from a variety of different cultures. I visited relatives who migrated to Canada and who already had a community from "the homeland" there. I have difficulty "fitting" into their society easily and don't really want to. Truth is I moved away from where I grew up and have difficulty "fitting in" to that society as well. Actually, even though, I live where I live and have lived where I live for a number of years. It doesn't feel like home - no where on this planet feels like home right now. |
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