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01-12-2009, 08:41 PM
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| Immigrants want Canadian Anthem sung in Hindi for the Olympics
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Apparently Bruce Allen got a wif that there was discussion of having the national anthem sung in Hindi. Umm NO!
You SHOULD be concerned.
Our National Anthem - at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Please read and forward to as many Canadians you can think of – thank you
WE ARE PROUD CANADIANS!
Bruce Allen is on the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Committee and new Canadians (specifically Hindi's/Indian's) want him fired for his recent comments outlined below:
I am sorry, but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Hindi - enough is enough.
Nowhere or at no other time in our Nation's history, did they sing it in Italian, Japanese, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German, Portuguese, Greek, or any other language because of immigration. It was written in English, adapted into French, and should be sung word for word the way it was written.
The news broadcasts even gave the Hindi version translation - which was not even close to our National Anthem. I am not the least bit sorry if this offends ANYONE, this is MY COUNTRY; My Grand Dad served in the military, other family members also served, as well as my wife & I served a combined total of 56 years between us. We made many sacrifices for our country and do not feel we should feel obligated to allow invited people we've welcomed with open arms to influence & change our society to better resemble the one they chose to leave to come here!!! - IF YOU AGREE ABOUT THIS GREAT COUNTRY, SPEAK UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
I am not against immigration. In fact I believe we need more, my ancestors were immigrants -- just come through like everyone else. Get a sponsor; a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the Rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and LONG LIVE CANADA!'
It's time we all get behind Bruce Allen, and scrap this Political Correctness crap. His comments were anything but racist, however, there are far too many overly sensitive 'New Canadians' that are attempting to change everything we hold dear.
ARE you PART OF THE PROBLEM??? Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone, will we still be the Country of Choice and Still be CANADA if we continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other countries who have come to live in CANADA because it is the Country of Choice??????
This is the link for the CTV report of this: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...0925/20070925/
HERE IS AN ELECTRONIC PETITION YOU CAN SIGN
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_pe...n.cgi?Canada10 |
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01-12-2009, 08:47 PM
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Dont worry. Canada's official languages are English and French. It will never happen. Im sure its just another article stemming from somewhere to fuel the fire some more.. 
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01-12-2009, 08:48 PM
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01-12-2009, 08:50 PM
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01-12-2009, 08:51 PM
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WTF is this "immigants" shit. They're Canadians. Some Canadians want the anthem sung in Hinda, they're a small minority and it's not one of the official languages of Canada. They can go fuck themselves.
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01-12-2009, 08:55 PM
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FAIL.
Hindu's make a small minority of the South Asian population in Canada and I've never heard of one Hindu group in Canada be vocal about anything except for the outcome of the Air India bombings. The original poster of this chain letter must be some redneck from up north because he/she should have put "PUNJABI" and not "HINDI" because it would have made this rant more authentic but I guess all rednecks think Indians speak Hindi.
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01-12-2009, 09:00 PM
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multiculturalism is one thing...but i don't get this one.
sing it in english and/or french and be done with it
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01-12-2009, 09:28 PM
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I want to go to their country and pick a language to some once in a lifetime event and have it sung in my language, the way I want it to be sung: by Willian Hung
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01-12-2009, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Jah Al Zawahiri FAIL.
Hindu's make a small minority of the South Asian population in Canada and I've never heard of one Hindu group in Canada be vocal about anything except for the outcome of the Air India bombings. The original poster of this chain letter must be some redneck from up north because he/she should have put "PUNJABI" and not "HINDI" because it would have made this rant more authentic but I guess all rednecks think Indians speak Hindi. |
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01-12-2009, 10:12 PM
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What the fuck? Falcon is just trying to stir shit up here by posting up that nonsense. I watch the news religiously and have not once heard of an ethnic minority asking for the national anthem to be sung in any language other than English or French.
The article listed is from September 2007 - that's 16 months ago and the content of that article, in no way, discusses the national anthem in any way. If in fact any ethnic group wants the national anthem sung in their language post a fucken link to a credible source rather than some email a hillbilly wrote up.
Lastly, the message talks about "news broadcasts even gave the Hindi version translation" -- has anyone here heard it?
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01-12-2009, 10:39 PM
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just sing it in english i hate people that want everything their way
this isnt india 2 and punjabi is not the main language
maybe surrey but thats it
live with it
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01-12-2009, 11:09 PM
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don't buy into this bs article... I've never heard of anything on the news or in prints about such demand.
probably just some right wing moron trying to stir things up. idiot.
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01-12-2009, 11:15 PM
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where is the petition to fire this guy and have the anthem sung in hindi?
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01-12-2009, 11:31 PM
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Ok ill try and keep this short and sweet. Anyway supposively theres an original article somewhere of a group of punjabis lobbying to have the anthem sung in there language because they feel they have rights in this country  (cant find the original article) and Bruce Allen responded on CKNW about it. He was given some high up job in the 2010 olympic commitee and now the punjabi's are mad and want him fired. Here is Bruce Allens comments from CKNW. To be honest i cant really disagree with him. Why change the laws for other cultures coming into our country right? It wouldnt happen anywhere else.
I’m Bruce Allen, this is CKNW and this is your Reality Check.
If I didn’t know any better it would seem there has been a lot of immigrant bashing going on in the past few months. A month ago the Sikh community was all up in arms about Passport Canada refusing to issue passports to three Sikh kids because they were wearing religious headgear for the photos. The children were wearing those handkerchiefs which are knotted at the top of the head to keep their hair intact. That incident came on the heels of an immigration plan that was in the works to have Sikhs with the surnames Singh or Khan to change those names as to avoid administrative mistakes. Too many Singhs… too many Khans that was the problem. And now we got a controversy over the fact Elections Canada has said that its alright to have burqa covered Muslim women vote in elections when it is very clear that voters have to be able to be identified when going to the polls.
All of these issues join the list that contains the turban wearing Mountie’s problem and the one where the motorcycle rider was angry that he had to wear a helmet, as it [is] impossible to get it on over his turban.
This is all very simple… we have laws in this country, they are spelled out and they are easy to get a hold of. If you are immigrating to this country, you don’t like the rules that are in place then you have the right to choose not to live here. But if you choose to come to a place like Canada, then shut up and fit in. We are a democracy, but it seems more and more that we are being pilloried by special interest groups that just want to make special rules for themselves.
This is easy to solve… these are the rules… there is the door. If you don’t like the rules… hit it! We don’t need you here, you have another place to go, its called home! See ya.
I’m Bruce Allen and this the Giant CKNW NewsTalk 980.
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01-13-2009, 12:09 AM
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should do what vancouver did in the early 1900 when boatload of hindus came here. open fire and sink everything.
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01-13-2009, 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by PornoMan What the fuck? Falcon is just trying to stir shit up here by posting up that nonsense. I watch the news religiously and have not once heard of an ethnic minority asking for the national anthem to be sung in any language other than English or French.
The article listed is from September 2007 - that's 16 months ago and the content of that article, in no way, discusses the national anthem in any way. If in fact any ethnic group wants the national anthem sung in their language post a fucken link to a credible source rather than some email a hillbilly wrote up.
Lastly, the message talks about "news broadcasts even gave the Hindi version translation" -- has anyone here heard it? | I just saw it on another forum and posted it here.  No shit stirring here.
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01-13-2009, 01:59 AM
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Originally Posted by -kish- Ok ill try and keep this short and sweet. Anyway supposively theres an original article somewhere of a group of punjabis lobbying to have the anthem sung in there language because they feel they have rights in this country (cant find the original article) and Bruce Allen responded on CKNW about it. He was given some high up job in the 2010 olympic commitee and now the punjabi's are mad and want him fired. Here is Bruce Allens comments from CKNW. To be honest i cant really disagree with him. Why change the laws for other cultures coming into our country right? It wouldnt happen anywhere else.
I’m Bruce Allen, this is CKNW and this is your Reality Check.
If I didn’t know any better it would seem there has been a lot of immigrant bashing going on in the past few months. A month ago the Sikh community was all up in arms about Passport Canada refusing to issue passports to three Sikh kids because they were wearing religious headgear for the photos. The children were wearing those handkerchiefs which are knotted at the top of the head to keep their hair intact. That incident came on the heels of an immigration plan that was in the works to have Sikhs with the surnames Singh or Khan to change those names as to avoid administrative mistakes. Too many Singhs… too many Khans that was the problem. And now we got a controversy over the fact Elections Canada has said that its alright to have burqa covered Muslim women vote in elections when it is very clear that voters have to be able to be identified when going to the polls.
All of these issues join the list that contains the turban wearing Mountie’s problem and the one where the motorcycle rider was angry that he had to wear a helmet, as it [is] impossible to get it on over his turban.
This is all very simple… we have laws in this country, they are spelled out and they are easy to get a hold of. If you are immigrating to this country, you don’t like the rules that are in place then you have the right to choose not to live here. But if you choose to come to a place like Canada, then shut up and fit in. We are a democracy, but it seems more and more that we are being pilloried by special interest groups that just want to make special rules for themselves.
This is easy to solve… these are the rules… there is the door. If you don’t like the rules… hit it! We don’t need you here, you have another place to go, its called home! See ya.
I’m Bruce Allen and this the Giant CKNW NewsTalk 980. | Blah blah blah, why in the hell are posting shit Bruce went on about last year? It has nothing to do what you claim this "group" is trying to do. And let me make one thing clear, there is no group in the Hindi or Punjabi community that has made any claims about asking the committee to the anthem in Punjabi or Hindi. If there was, Kim Bolan and the Vancouver Sun would have been the first to report on it.
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01-13-2009, 10:49 AM
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Want it sung in Hindi? Go back to India.
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01-13-2009, 11:13 AM
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Buddy your so full of shit. At no point has the issue of the national anthem ever come up. Its some redneck who drafted up an email and forwarded it on with the goal of causing hate against Hindus or Punjabis. And by looking at the response from everywhere here, its working, even though there is no article to suggest that anything in that email is true.
Find this "original article" and Ill retract my comment. Quote:
Originally Posted by -kish- Ok ill try and keep this short and sweet. Anyway supposively theres an original article somewhere of a group of punjabis lobbying to have the anthem sung in there language because they feel they have rights in this country (cant find the original article) and Bruce Allen responded on CKNW about it. | | |
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Originally Posted by maxx should do what vancouver did in the early 1900 when boatload of hindus came here. open fire and sink everything. | | |
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I want our anthem sung in VIETNAMESE NOW!
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Fuck Indian people
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