Denne historie strækker sig over mange år.

I 1964 min mand, 4-årige søn og jeg emigrerede fra Skotland til lille by Ontario – Orillia, Stephen Leacock s Mariposa. Vi blev hurtigt assimileret ind i den overvejende hvide kaukasiske befolkning, mange er anden og tredje generation efterkommere af tidlige bosættere. Det var en let overgang for os at flytte fra et land til et andet. We were accepted and made welcome as there were several immigrant families from England and Scotland living there already along with a small, well established Italian community.

It was not the norm for aIl newcomers.

I 1967 I saw a young Asian couple with a little boy carrying their laundry to a nearby laundromat and commented to my husband on how strange and lonely it must be for them as they were the only Asian family in our small town. Fortsæt læsning →