Michelle’s Very Personal Blog

A foreigner’s mindset…

I think in the end this is what pushed me over the edge.

I don’t care how you slice it, a foreigner’s mindset (depends on the country) is much different than a North American’s mindset.

If anyone wants to argue that point, I probably won’t even listen because I am an educated intelligent person & you would be hard pressed to convince me otherwise.

That’s not to say that people in foreign countries don’t have North American ideals & that is why they want to get out of their own country, but the way a child is raised by his/her parents plays a HUGE part on how they see society, humans & the world in general.

Don’t get me wrong, there are many white people who are closed minded, but having been raised or born in Canada, but their expectations of certain things are different. They may not have quality tastes, but at the very least, their expectations are different unless they don’t care about themselves, then naturally they don’t care about the quality of anything all the way from their clothes, furniture, house, car, etc.

When a person comes from the Orient, India, Pakistan, etc., their quality of living over there is generally well below our quality of living over here.

Now they come in droves to live in Canada everyone sponsoring everyone else, so they multiply in HUGE NUMBERS.

These races generally run the small stores which is ok if they are selling packaged products that have their own industry with regulations, but if they start selling things that aren’t regulated, they tend to not care about quality, safety, common sense, etc.

My views on this extend to contractors, construction type work & if you research how many restaurants got closed down by the Health Inspectors inspecting restaurants, you will see that the majority (if not all), were run by foreigners.

3 times in the last 7 years I’ve rented from landlords who hire the cheapest labour they can find to redo a basement, & every time it’s either a black person (not sure what country they were from), East Indian, or Pakistinian.

Each time they did a terrible job & I had to suffer because of it.

They aren’t totally to blame of course, if the industry that regulates construction work had their act together & really cared, they wouldn’t be allowed to get away with this, but they don’t have their act together, & they don’t care.

Do you know out of all the houses I have rented, only one was a white person?

And each time I was left with a house they wouldn’t fix & when they did fix the work, they did a sub par job.

I once had an older Italian man REFUSE to even show me his house after he said “come on over” on the phone all because I was a single mother & he couldn’t understand why I needed a house to live in. That’s the ignorant mentality of a sexist Italian man.

Same sort of thing happened with an Oriental woman. She shows me the house & my male friend happened to come along. She assumed I was married to him. When she wanted me to fill out the application which I did putting me & my mother on there, she refused to rent it to me saying that she thought I had a man in my life, she wasn’t going to rent to just a woman. Sexism, foreigner’s general way of thinking. Yes before you say it, there are lots of sexist white folks, but there just isn’t nearly as many.

So yes, lowering the quality of standards across the board when it comes to construction work, contracting, restaurants, food stores, etc., this is a problem, & is anyone doing anything about it?