Cheap Labour: Canada :: essays research papers

Cheap Labour Canada     Canada, the so-called land of opportunities. This statement is a known position due to the large amount of people immigrating to our land. It allstarted back in the 50s and is still occurring in the 90s. I will bediscussing the different working mentalities amidst French Canadians andimmigrants coming from various parts of the man. I will compare "VoicelessPeople" by Marco Micone, and unclouded Niggers of America by Pierre Vallieres.White Niggers emphasizes on the mentality of French Canadian working class andVoiceless People emphasizes on immigrants mentality towards working, which inthis case is the Italian community.     After discipline "Rivalry Over the Ethnic Minorities", it was like readingmy own familys past when they immigrated in Quebec back in the early 70s.Many Greek immigrants who immigrated from their native country followed the samepattern towards finding happiness. Like most of the F rench, they worked longhard hours in bad working conditions and not so great pay. These sweatshopsrepresent the world-class act of action to climb up the social ladder. But for theimmigrants, it meant much more they oblige these jobs in order to save up some bills for the future, by a nice raise and reach the next step in social ladder.Most of the time, the immigrants would buy their home in other neighborhoodsthey would multifariousness community because it reflected their new social situation.Because they have more money, they can move to an area where people of the samenationality live. They will leave the French back in the city where they willkeep on working long hours because they never saved up or invested their money.The main point Im trying to show is that the immigrants have a strongerambition and desire to become more successful than the French do, maybe becausethey are not at home and threatened by others. This is the world view almostall immigrants have and this con cept has a major effect on their lives.Voiceless People is exactly the same scenario for Antonio and his family.Antonio came here genuinely poor and unable to speak a word of French. He startedworking in factories with very bad pay and even worse working conditions. meetlike the typical immigrant, he never gave up, didnt let anyone put him down,continued to work because he had an ambition to become successful and buy ahouse knowing that he earned it with his own sweat. As a newcomer to thiscountry, he seemed to succeed with great facility, unlike many French Canadianswho seem in some manner jealous of the immigrants who tend to succeed with such bad