Yes, I hear a lot of stuff. During my research, I did hear from lots of young people.
I myself am an immigrant, a first-generation immigrant and international student, and am a parent of kids who go to school. Yes, I do experience many things that other speakers have shared with us.
One of the things is characterization or labelling, where we want to put that label on Somalians. That is a problem. So gangs of Indo-Canadians, of Chinese, are a problem; my question is, well, they are second-generation immigrants. Why? Aren't they Canadian citizens?
So that's the problem. Many kids, many second-generation kids like my kids, who were born over here, are being told, “Okay, you're from India, that's fine.” But when will they start to be called Canadian?
I mentioned the gangs that are a huge problem for law enforcement in Calgary, Fresh Off the Boat Killers and Fresh Off the Boat. They are called FOBs. But the media also calls them “Forever Our Brother”. That's not the name that's ever given out or publicized.
What that tells me, and what I grasp from that, is that, well, they were the group that was discriminated against in high school--yes, “fresh off the boat”, push them away. So they are them. But they got together as Forever Our Brother. They grouped together and they stood together. Whatever happened--bad drug dealings that disintegrated--one became an enemy of the other, and they became Fresh Off the Boat Killers. So that's there.
But yes, the label has to be.... They are all born in Canada. Why are they not Canadian citizens?