How Do You Say “Suckers!” In Punjabi?

55 Replies to “How Do You Say “Suckers!” In Punjabi?”

1. JP,
   A weak defence with plenty of flaws.
   Your assertion that immigrants from Third World countries have much lower incomes is a bit odd, given that in neighboring US, Indians are the highest earning demographic. I expect they are doing pretty well in Canada too. Just as the Jamaicans are faring poorly.
   Its not labour shortage – not once did I say labour shortage. However, the higher the population growth rate, the faster an economy grows. That is the rationale behind Australia, and Canada’s immigraiton policies. Not altruism, nor a desire to turn Canada ‘colored’.
   When I say I want a white Canada, it doesnt mean purely in terms of skin color. I mean it in terms of traditions and laws – English as the main languuage and so forth. Otherwise, where would we fit in the ‘darker’ Italians et al. I don’t use the term white as skin colour but as legal tradition etc.
   The rest is factually incorrect. All western nations have not oepned their door to mass third world immigration. Germany is the most famous case, where being German is based on ethnicity, and not place of birth. Most western coutnries brought in temproary workers etc because, as the name suggests, they needed them to keep the economy going. UK is the most famous case where restrictions on immigration against non-whites were slapped on in the 1960s, to the point that even colored British citizens could not get into the country., The reason -they had enough people to keep the economy going.
   Korea etc never did need people. They never had temporary worker programs. What next, are you going to blame colored folk for WWII, which resulted in the manpower shortages that forced these temporary worker policies?
   Japan and Korea et al don’t ven take in very high skilled labour because they have ample. The US and all do – the H-1B visa- the majority of which are allotted to Indian techies. The UK, and now Germany have implemented HIgh skill immigration programs similar to the US. Because they want the talent. They are not “nation-building” policies such as Canada’s and Australia’s
   And pre-1960 Canada could have only white people because everyone else was barred. And even then, the Irishmen and the Englishmen were busy takng shots at each other. REmember Darcy McGee? I bet if you had been alive back then, you would have demanded only Catholic or Protestant immigration – as is perhaps expected from people who are blinded by prejudice.
   A weak cop out on your part. And a weaker attempt to defend completely unsubstantiated statements by denying yourself the opportunity to defend, or substantiate them.

2. I recall seeing the picture of the fathers of Confederation: Sir John A MacDonald, D’arcy McGee, Sir Hectot-Louis Langevan, Sir George-Étienne Cartier and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.
   Really Juck, you should brush up on what languasge the taliban are speaking now.

3. This was a misunderstanding on the part of the journalist. A confusion of the terms used in Canada vs India. Layton did not promise to recognize Punjabi as an official language. Other bloggingtories have corrected their posts. I hope you will too. Thnx
   http://www.stephentaylor.ca/2008/10/english-french-and-punjabi/
   Subject: from Gurmukh Singh, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), New Delhi
   Clarification: Since the word ‘official’ in my report has caused confusion, let me explain it from our Indian perspective.
   In India, an “official’” language does not become a “national” language. The acceptance of a language by the government makes it “official”, not a national language.
   So Hindi and English are link languages (but never mentioned as national languages in the Indian Constitution), and 21 other languages are our official languages (but not national languages).
   So my use of the word “official” might have been confused with the word “national” by some people. But that was not my intention.
   All I wanted to know from Jack Layton was whether he will give some kind of recognition to the Punjabi language as it has been here for about a hundred years. Not the status of a national language.
   Jack also didn’t promise anything except say that he will support any idea of such a recognition if his party is voted into power.

4. I see we have the usual token retard screaming racist again. I’d just like to make the observation that objecting to a proposal for making Punjabi an “official language” is not racist. The objection is to the idiot concept of an official language, not to the presence in this country of people whose first language is Punjabi.
   That being said, on numbers alone Punjabi is getting to the point where it has almost as good a claim as French for “official Language” status. So does Cantonese, so does Farsi. These people all live within about 100 miles of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
   I do not view this as a good thing, myself. The presence of that large a number of unassimilated immigrants in such small geographic areas cannot help but lead to uproar and unrest. Bear in mind the reason we even have two official languages in this country in the first place isn’t because everything was going so great and wonderful we felt it would be fun to add French.

5. Who’s zoomin who?
   Indo-Canadians want official status for Punjabi
   “Sadhu Binning, who is vice president of PLEA and teaches Punjabi at the University of British Columbia, said Punjabi has been used in Canada for 110 years but it was still not recognised as one of the Canadian languages.
   It was high time it was given an official status like English and French, he said.”
   http://tinyurl.com/52qs2q