Sociologist Christian Bergeron says the intense debate surrounding the recent influx of immigrants is shaking one of the pillars of Canadian society.

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      There is a definite impact to a society when they open up to outside cultures. Countries who don’t have a history of large scale immigration face challenges to their identity, and cultural strength, especially when immigrants don’t desire to integrate with the culture they migrated to. The citizens have to learn new skills, interacting with people that are different from them, and need to learn acceptance and tolerance. Those are valuable skills to learn, but it’s dishonest to pretend that immigration doesn’t have any impact on the host country. Certain European countries have been getting a master class on the challenges that mass immigration poses to their unified cultural identity. I’m from the United States, so I’m no stranger to immigration, but I recognize how there would be an adjustment period for those who are.

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        Countries who don’t have a history of large scale immigration

        Both of our countries are textbook examples of histories of large scale immigration. Everyone in Canada and the US but Indigenous Peoples are immigrants or children of immigrants

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          Everyone […] but Indigenous Peoples are immigrants

          Psst. The current resident indigenes immigrated.

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            I’m pretty sure immigration is volitional, unlike other classifications like refugees and displaced peoples