Equity In Canada

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village, and in 1980’s Sikh
immigrants were called ‘trash’ and told to ‘go home.’ I found the author’
s choice of words quite appropriate when she described the ‘people of the
east’ in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Words such as Bluenoser, Gaelic and
homogeneity were used to describe the vast majority of people who look and
sound the same in the community.

Throughout the article the author expressed her disgust at this
racist incident although her friend, the black man, has learned to laugh
it off. She stated she was still furious even though the patient himself
says ‘everything is just fine’ when asked about the hospital incident. In
an effort to fight racism, the author called the Health Science centre and
was told to file a complaint. She and I both feel that achieving racial
equality is a task that is next to impossible, because to solve racism you
must be able to prove it. In the words of the author “… you can never
prove what is in someone else’s heart”. I feel that one way ...

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