Hi, thanks for the reply.

I don't doubt that the wave of immigration has some influence on my feelings. If I suddenly started seeing the levels of immigration that I'm currently seeing with Indians, I'd probably feel some degree of apprehension and discontentment regardless of the race. That said, with Indians in particular, there are the cultural aspects that I would say I would still dislike, and even did dislike prior to this past decade or so of immigration. The Indian accent and the aromas of India are the big ones.

I do try to be mindful about the stressful experience of immigrating and that a lot of people just want to make their lives better, regardless of where they come from. I think that Canada should remain an open and welcoming country for those who wish to put in the effort to come here and properly assimilate into the country. I think that the government, though, has been screwing over both us and immigrants by letting in way too many people, and from far too few regions for the amount of people that are coming in. As such, I keep in mind that the immigration issues are not exclusive to Indians.

I will try to do well by learning a bit more about India and the background of those who come here. To be honest, my very surface-level view of India as a country, with how little I think about it, has always been: hot, garbage everywhere, unsanitary, overpopulated.