A Failure to Discriminate?

"Is Canada suffering from a failure to discriminate against visible minorities?" More than an odd way to phrase a question, it is an inversion of decency. This is exactly what the Globe and Mail's Marina Jimenez did in her October 6th piece on her maliciously erroneous interpretation of a recent Statistics Canada release. The article entitled Immigrants Face Growing Economic Mobility Gap and continued under the subtitle Discrimination Against Blacks Tied to Income Disparity posits that the second and third generation of minority children suffer an income gap when compared to whites. However, the statistics do not support this intrepretation at all. In fact, they clearly point to the progress of integration in Canada showing that hard working Chinese and Japanese citizen even far outstrip those of European heritage. Most other groups proportionally show significantly greater generational improvement than do whites. Only blacks show as little generational stagnation as do whites.
As the statistics themselves suggest, in every case, surely culture, not discrimination is the limiting factor. Indeed, if there is one group which has to struggle under legal discrimination of affirmative action it is the whites who do lag almost every other group.
Jiminez was correct to observe, “The old vertical mosaic with whites from Britain and Europe at the top and visible minorities underneath is no longer valid." She should have left it at that.

Avg anl earnings of university grads 25-44, full time employed. Statistics Canada
---------------Gen----‘000s------Gen----‘000s
Chinese---------1-------55---------3--------79
Japanese--------1------ 58---------3--------75
White-----------1-------68---------3--------67
Arab------------1-------55---------2--------63
S.Asian----------1-------54---------3--------62
W.Asian---------1-------53---------2--------53
Carrib/Afr Bl----1-------51---------2--------50
Filipinos---------1-------41---------2--------51