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Contributor: Barretm82
Date: 2003-04-07 17:48:45
One disturbing trend I witnessed is self segregation of various immigrant groups in Canada. A business person I am familiar with owns a large grocery store for minorities. As I walked thru the store with him I noticed that he had the same specialty food items in different locations in the store. I asked him, "why not keep all this stuff in the same place? Like you would see in other typical Grocery stores like Safeway, etc."
He answered, “Many of his customers from different countries in the world didn’t like to be in the same space as other ethnic groups, so he had to segregate the food isles in his store”. For example, some from India didn’t like those from Pakistan; others from East Africa didn’t like those from West Africa, etc, etc…
I was honestly shocked by the racism of the customers; usually when I think racism I think of Nazi.
What I witnessed at his grocery store was minority detestation of minority racism, I returned during a busy hour a couple of days later and yes it was more evident, particularly at the checkout lines.
Has anyone here seen this problem? Or is it a local phenomenon in that particular city? I don’t know of any studies regarding minority to minority racism for reference…. If I was in government, I would consider looking further into this issue.
Just my 2-cents….
Steve
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