This is a posting I came across on Craigslist:
Maybe, there is some truth in the posting?
Advice to Immigrants from an Immigrant
Every immigrant has a different story. Some immigrants achieved instant success. Some had to work for success. Some never achieved success despite working for it. A few will never achieve success.
If you have not achieved success as yet or have just migrated to Canada, here’s a few things that you can do to make life easier for yourself.
Being from India, I have also provided a few examples of what would happen in India if you were a foreigner in India.
1. Erase the accent: In the call centres in India, the workers have to go through what is called “accent neutralisation”, so that they can understand and be understood by the people they are talking to on the telephone. What applies there for Indians who talk to North Americans on the telephone, applies equally to people who migrate here and have to talk to Canadians face-to-face. No one wants to talk to a immigrant with such a thick accent that they can’t follow what (s)he is saying.
In India, a person who speaks with a foreign accent would find that the prices of everything doubles – groceries, taxi fare, bribes paid to local officials to do their jobs (such as giving you a driver’s licence) or not to do their jobs (such as giving you a traffic ticket), etc. Indians will cheat you because they know you don’t know the score.
2. Move from Gerrard Street / Chinatown/ Brampton: It’s comforting to live in a place where everyone looks like you, speaks like you and thinks like you. But if that is what you wanted, why did you move to Canada from India/ China/ Pakistan/ wherever you came from? Move to a place where you will have to live alongside Canadians. Understand that you are in Canada now and you have to become Canadian or always be regarded as a foreigner. Understand the Canadian culture and become part of it.
In India, the foreigners can live in enclaves because most of them are there temporarily. Those who plan to stay permanently, move out of the enclaves and get used to the local culture.
3. Get used to Canadian food/ climate/ ways of doing things: So you don’t eat beef or pork because of your religion. Every place that you go to serves North American or European food that is cooked without spices. Either eat what everyone else does or cook your own food or starve. Canada is cold – you knew that when you migrated. If you wanted a warm climate, you should have migrated to Australia. Get used to how things work in Canada. The voltage is 110 V AC not 230 VAC. Corporations have far more freedom to extract money from you than back in the country where you came from. That is also the reason why they can pay you far more when you go to work for them, compared to where you came from.
I was a Catholic from the state of Kerala staying in Bombay. My favourite meat is beef. I couldn’t get beef even in the restaurant that served Kerala cuisine in Bombay. I never tasted a decent hamburger in Bombay. Actually, I haven’t tasted a decent hamburger in Canada – I am waiting for the Carls Jr./ Hardees chain to invade Canada from the South.
4. Work towards re-qualification or get fresh qualifications: Canadians have no way of knowing what your qualification is worth. You may have graduated from the best university in your country. People out here do not know whether the best university there is equal to the worst university here or the best university here or even whether your degree is not worth the paper it is written on. Don’t expect to have your qualifications recognised unless you have international experience or exposure to go with it. This is especially so, when there are a lot of universities in India who are selling degrees.
I went back to India after getting a Master’s degree from the USA. I found that my degree wasn’t recognised. After three months of searching I got a job that paid me less than an entry-level job that someone with the Indian equivalent of my qualifications would get. I never got recognition for eight years of experience working in a related field in India. Out here, I have an entry level job suitable for someone with a North American Master’s degree with a couple of years of experience.
5. Accept that people are unfriendly here: Apparently, it takes a long time to make a friend out of a Canadian. I find it easier to get along with Americans. This is especially true with women. It doesn’t matter what the ethnicity of Canadians are; whether they were originally East Indians or Chinese or European or North American. People in Canada are just less friendly. I’ve been out on dates with women of all ethnicities – it’s just difficult for them to be friendly. The only woman I’ve been out with multiple times is white American.
If you’re an immigrant, don’t blame Canada and Canadians for all your problems. Some of it is caused by you.
Good....
Some of your points are very good.
Thanks,
JRF.
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Orginally posted by STHIRU18
This is a posting I came across on Craigslist:
Maybe, there is some truth in the posting?
Advice to Immigrants from an Immigrant
Every immigrant has a different story. Some immigrants achieved instant success. Some had to work for success. Some never achieved success despite working for it. A few will never achieve success.
If you have not achieved success as yet or have just migrated to Canada, here’s a few things that you can do to make life easier for yourself.
Being from India, I have also provided a few examples of what would happen in India if you were a foreigner in India.
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Well I don't know about "Good" but they are definitely biased to an extent.... 
Sthiru....we r so happy to know that u dated many american women.....please propagate this fact to your bros and sis's in Kerala...they will admire your progress in life
Location: INDIA (sometimes Canada)
Posted on: 14-01-06 01:54:55
Your points are alsolutly valid. I will like to add that here are two types of people one who were born here or immigrated long back, both of them feel themselves more canadian then us, who have immgrated recently.
Also, ones personality makes a lots of difference. An listening and seeing person is better fit to canada than a thinking, doing and talking person.
But keep on giving your valueable inputs.
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