Canada Talk » The world would love to be Canadian

SO, bevor wir uns jetzt gleich Fußball angucken werden, noch was positives über Kanada

More than half of people around the world say they would abandon their homelands and move to Canada if they could.

Given the choice, 53 per cent of adults in the world's 24 leading economies said they would immigrate to Canada, according to an international survey commissioned by the Historica-Dominion Institute in partnership with the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Aurea Foundation.

It's a startling finding, one that is reinforced by respondents' overwhelmingly positive attitudes about Canada's welcoming and tolerant treatment of newcomers. The results bode well for Canada's efforts to attract highly educated immigrants as the global search for talent heats up in coming years.

“Canada is considered desirable for people all around the world. The shining city on the hill, as America was, and remains, for many people,” said Andrew Cohen, president of the Historica-Dominion Institute.

“Largely, it's because we welcome immigrants. We do not have anti-immigration parties in Canada. Almost every European country has one. We do not have a skinhead movement in Canada. So that speaks well of Canada and may point to our greatest success of the last 25 years, which is the manner in which we have continued to welcome immigrants.”

The tilt toward Canada is most pronounced in the emerging economies of the G20. More than three-quarters of those surveyed in China said they would prefer to live in Canada, followed by Mexico and India at close to 70 per cent. Slightly more than half of Britons, Italians and Russians said the same, while about four in 10 French and Germans would also choose Canada. Citizens of Japan and Sweden, followed by the United States and Australia, were the least interested in moving to Canada, with only one in five Swedes saying they would make the move.

Janice Stein, director of the Munk School at the University of Toronto, said the survey suggests Canada can thrive in the looming global talent wars.

“In terms of our economic future, our social future, our capacity to innovate, on all these dimensions that intelligent Canadians think about all the time, these are enormously encouraging data,” Prof. Stein said. “The developed world is getting old very quickly. … We are going to have to recruit globally as everybody else does.”

The reasons for Canada's relative attractiveness are clear: 86 per cent of respondents around the globe said Canada is a country where rights and freedoms are respected; 72 per cent said Canada is welcoming to immigrants; 79 per cent said Canadians are tolerant of people from different racial and cultural backgrounds; and 79 per cent said Canadians have one of the best qualities of life.

On most questions Canadians feel more strongly about their openness and tolerance than non-Canadians. Ninety-four per cent of Canadians say Canada is welcoming to immigrants, more than in any other country, but China and India, which have the largest diasporas in Canada, are not far behind.

“Of course we think we are [generous, open and tolerant,] Prof. Stein said. “Are we more vain than other publics? I doubt it.”

Canada's reputation in some areas is even stronger than Canadian vanity. Citizens of five countries, South Africa, Australia, France, Indonesia and South Korea are all more likely than Canadians to describe Canada as a country where rights and freedoms are respected.

Citizens of 10 countries, including China, South Africa, France and Russia, are more likely than Canadians to say Canada is tolerant of people from different racial and cultural backgrounds.


achso, da gibt es noch ne Grafik, in Deutschland sind es 44 Prozent die nach Kanada auswandern würden.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/the-world-would-love-to-be-canadian/article1612707/

ja Biber, danke, es ist schön, mal wieder etwas Positives über Canada zu lesen .... ich träume doch so gerne ....

LG Marla

hallo

bitte auch die kommentare lesen

was mir fehlt ist die quelle der study

ein kommentar und einige mehr

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The tilt toward Canada is most pronounced in the emerging economies of the G20. More than three-quarters of those surveyed in China said they would prefer to live in Canada, followed by Mexico and India at close to 70 per cent.

Janice Stein, director of the Munk School at the University of Toronto, said the survey suggests Canada can thrive in the looming global talent wars. )))

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This is the same Janice Stein of the Munk Centre that said there are over 1,000 Chinese spies in Canada.

Now she comes up the report of most Chinese want to come to Canada, is that why all the immigration applications from China are processed in India?

There are such a influx of applications from India and decline in applications from China that the Canadian immigration office for Chinese applications are processed in India.

Adsking the Munk Centre opinions on China is like asking the Gestapo for opinions on Jews.

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M_G: "According to the article, 1 in 3 Americans would rather live here? They must be talking to the Americans I haven't met.
And half of Germans, Britons, French....
Then why don't we see more new immigrants coming from those countries?"

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Canada is a great country no doubt but the survey is silly. It is completely anecdotal. If people decide to move to a new country, they will (for the vast majority at least) do research and not make a decision to move based on silly worded surveys. Canada's reputation has been build up over the last 50 years starting with Lester Pearson (well he was a major factor at least). We need to back up this reputation and work on not having immigrants with engineering degrees driving taxis in Toronto!

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Doe Kommetare von "half of the prople of the world" ???

lol, Es hat nicht jeder so viel Zeit wie Du maxim.



Auch von mir Danke fuer ein postives posting, auch wenn es einige Irritiert.


So, ich muss los, ist bestimmt wieder so eine G8-Polizeisperre vor meinem Haus......




Ghost

Jeder der das Wort "Auswandern" hört assoziiert damit die klassischen Auswanderungsländer. Unter denen ist Kanada bestimmt das attraktievste Land. Somit ist es nur offensichtlich, dass die Antwort auf diese Frage bei den meisten auch mit Kanada beantwortet wird. Was sagt uns also diese Studie? Nichts, nur dass der Ruf von kanada als attraktives Auswanderungsland nach wie vor ungebrochen ist.

To canada, - or not to canada, ... that is the question

(not Shakespeare)

"The world would love to be Canadian"

Der Wunsch ist eine Sache, diesen wirklich in die Tat umsetzen zu koennen eine andere. Das waere so als wenn ich sagen wuerde, ich wuerde gerne mal den Jackpot knacken.




OT: Ich habe nie nachvollziehen koennen, wenn jemand in Foren, HP's oder sonstwo von seinem "Traum" schwaermte in Kanada leben zu wollen. Was wenn der Traum auf die Realitaet prallt? Alles Traumtaenzer?
(No offence, Marla)