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sixiangdeyu

剑桥大学英孚研究部学术总监克里斯托弗表示，中国大陆地区排名落后，首先是因为教学手段落后，比如仍以大班教学，单向的知识传授为主，侧重记忆性的语言学习方式，缺少互动练习；二是缺少合格的接受国际权威认证的英语教师；三是仍然处于应试教育的大环境中，导致英语教学目标的偏离。报告显示，中国大陆地区对于英语培训的需求将持续扩大。

lincoln

Chinese have poor English skills according to a study.

China is ranked 29th in the English Proficientcy Index and belongs to the low-proficientcy tier,falling behind Asian neighbors as Japan and South Korea.

lincoln

功课之一：分享一个加拿大移民部长Jason Kenney关于“如何融入加国文化，成为其合格公民”的演讲，这对于我们了解加国多元文化传统，加国移民政策倾向以及新移民如何借助当地政府的移民项目融入当地文化等会有所帮助，演讲分上下篇，以下为上篇。

“Good Citizenship: The Duty to Integrate”

The Honourable Jason Kenney
Well, thank you very much, and I’m sorry for those of you who don’t have a place to sit, but thank you for the good turn-out here, and let me begin by acknowledging my colleague Ed Holder, a member of Parliament, thanks very much. Where are you Ed? Where did you go? There you are. Thanks very much for coming out. As well, professor… Dr. Lumpkin, Dr. Atkinson, distinguished faculty, the entire Huron University College community, thank you for the warm welcome. And it’s a real please to be part of this Canadian Leaders Speakers Series reflecting the importance of this College as a key part of the University of Western Ontario.

I hope you won’t hold it against me, but just this morning I was speaking at the University of Toronto. They send their regards, and I must say I had a competing invitation to go and speak at Queen’s University this week, but we chose Western over Queen’s. So what can I say? I know quality higher education when I see it. Thank you very much.

I’m going to speak about… today, about the tension between the responsibilities that I have for immigration, citizenship and multiculturalism. And these are all critically important mandates for the kind of country in which we live in and its future. And someone said there is a sort of tension between these major statutes and programs for which I’m responsible which include the largest Immigration Program in the world in relative terms. Canada accepts about a quarter of a million permanent residents each year, just a notch under 1 % of our population, which makes it the most… the largest on a per capita basis number of permanent residents of any developed country in the world in an annualized basis.

And, to be even more impressive in terms of our immigration intake, last year, we received the largest number of newcomers to Canada in our history, over 500,000 if we include foreign students – perhaps including some of you –, temporary foreign workers and others, all of whom now have, through the Canadian Experience Class pathway to permanent residency.

So, I’m partly responsible for that largest relative Immigration Program in the world, as well as The Citizenship Act and program which of course is the pathway through which people must pass to join our Canadian political community, as well as The Multiculturalism Act and program which is the contemporary institutional expression of Canada’s long historical tradition of pluralism.

Now, as I said, each of these responsibilities has a real bearing on what kind of country ours is and what kind of country it will become. Now, today, I want to talk to you about precisely that question. How can a country that maintains such a high level of immigration while embracing the diversity that it brings, maintain a sense of social cohesion, a common purpose and of national identity? And what more can we do to strengthen the ties that bind us together as Canadians?

Now, I’ve mentioned the remarkably high levels of immigration that we welcome to our country. One of the things that’s unique about Canada, I believe, in the developed democratic world is that we probably have the strongest pro-immigration consensus in our political system of any comparable country. Unlike most Western European countries, and arguable the United States, there is no organized political voice which is hostile, in principle to immigration, and I would submit that by and large the differences between federal political formations on immigration… on immigration are differences of degree, not differences of kind.

And at the same time we have this tradition, as I’ve mentioned, of embracing diversity grounded in our historic, I would say British Liberal Imperial tradition of pluralism and… And so, this is the backdrop with which we face this growing diversity, a diversity which now means that nearly 50% of the population of our single largest city, the Greater Toronto area, are… is made up of people who were born abroad.

Now, this creates a certain challenge for us. Immigration brings… obviously fuels our prosperity and is necessary for our future. In fact, within a few years we estimate that 100% of our net labour market growth will be because of immigration. Notwithstanding that fact, notwithstanding the fact that we all benefit from the diversity that immigration brings, I submit that we cannot and should not be cavalier about dealing with the challenges, not just the opportunities of that growing diversity.

Some sociologists have remarked… have argued, that there is a thickening of what some people will call “ethnic enclaves” in Canada; that there are large and growing communities that are arguably somewhat insular, that are not integrating with the same rapidity as in the past. Some people pejoratively refer to enclaves as… as the process of ghetto-ization. In Britain, they refer to it as “parallel communities”.

I would say that parallel communities, ethnic enclaves, whatever you want to call them, are to some extent a natural, unavoidable and arguably even desirable part of the immigration experience as people become… come to this… come to an immigrant receiving country and get settled by attaching themselves initially to communities with which they’re familiar that provide social support and social capital.

My concern, and I think it should be a concern of all of ours, is to ensure that ethnic enclaves, so-called, don’t become traps, preventing people from integrating into the broader Canadian society, limiting their opportunities, their economic opportunities or their social opportunities for engagement beyond the culture with which they are familiar.

Now recently, a professor at Carleton University and a well-known Canadian journalist, Andrew Cohen, wrote a book about this and similar subjects about the challenge to the sense of Canadian identity by Canada… through Canada’s growing diversity. He entitled it The Unfinished Canadian. And in it, he deplores the way Canada is becoming, in the words of novelist Yann Martel, “…The greatest hotel on earth”. Cohen believes that Canada is becoming a residence of convenience that expects virtually nothing in return for one of the easiest passports in the world to acquire.

I saw an expression of this today in an article op-ed that had been written by a Ryerson journalism student in the Waterloo record who said, quotes: “It is a good thing if Canada does not have a specific identity. Canada is so multicultural and this prevents us from having a fixed identity, and that’s a good thing.” Rudyard Griffiths, the former Head of the Dominion Institute, has just published a new book Who We Are, and I encourage all of you to read it. He addresses this issue of identity as well. In it, he says that people assume that our lack of identity, our lack of… he argues our lack of pride and symbols and institutions is a virtue in a global society. They would tell us that a post-national identity is what we need in a post-national world.

One reviewer of his book has written that many see Canada as the perfect rooming house, a peaceful, accommodating post-nation State or as a soul-less railway terminus, a place that demands little of its citizens. But we need to take this metaphor of “Hotel Canada” very seriously, warns Rudyard Griffiths, because it’s undermining the very strengths and underpinnings that have made Canada a great country. The lack of knowledge of what has given us the country we know, he warns, is potentially disastrous.

Now, it’s said that civic literacy is the lifeblood of democracy. This is true for all of us who live here, including newcomers, who, in the words of Mr. Griffiths, shouldn’t be left to struggle on their own to master the civic knowledge required to participate in our democracy. And that is why I want to argue that while we continue to embrace Canada’s best traditions of diversity and of pluralism, we should also focus on those things that unite us, not simply those that make us different. We should focus in particular, on the political values that are grounded in our history, the values of liberal democracy rooted in British parliamentary democracy that precisely have given us the space to accommodate such diversity.

What does this mean? Well, for me it means that our Immigration Program, our Citizenship Program, our Multiculturalism Program must increasingly focus on integration, on the successful and rapid integration of newcomers to Canadian society. And, on a deepening understanding of the values, symbols and institutions that are rooted in our history, not just for newcomers but for all Canadians. Perhaps some of you have seen the surveys conducted by the Dominion Institute and others which demonstrate a disturbing level of ignorance about Canada’s political institutions, symbols and history.

For instance, the vast majority of young Canadians can’t even identify John MacDonald as our founding Prime Minister. The majority of Canadians couldn’t identify in a recent survey Canada’s political system as being characterized as a Constitutional monarchy. These kinds of… the vast majority of young Canadians cannot identify the principal battles in Canada’s military history, important… important touch marks… touch points for understanding of our history.

And so, this leads us to a reasonable question: Are we beginning to develop a kind of historical amnesia in Canada? Not just amongst newcomers, but amongst the children and grandchildren of old stock Canadians. And I would argue that if we do so, we’re losing something that could become unrecoverable. Now I think that what we need to do… First of all, I’ll tell you what we have done.

In the Multiculturalism Program, in the 1970s, this program focused on what was then referred to as “song, sari and samosa multiculturalism”, that is to say the kind of superficial cultural aspects of diversity, which is great. My own view is that we need a multiculturalism that is relevant to today’s challenges, not those of 30 or 40 years ago.

In fact, multiculturalism as a concept in Canadian public discourse was developed in the 1950s and ‘60s by people like Senator Paul Yuzyk, a Manitoba academic and later Senator appointed by John Diefenbaker , of Ukrainian origin. He was the principal historian up to that point in the role of Canadians of Ukrainian origin in our society. And Paul Yuzyk remarked on the two-founding nation’s theory of the Canadian founding and said that this seemed to leave out of the Canadian narrative about one-third of Canadians like himself who did not identify directly with either British or French ancestry.

He praised the institutions and the heritage, the patrimony of the British and French founding, as well as… as well as the achievements of the Aboriginal peoples that came before the European founders, but he said he we needed a discourse that explains the… a role, the belonging in Canada of those of neither British or French origins or the First Nations, and he suggested, as the kind of key for this discourse, the concept of multiculturalism. He went on to become known as the Father of Multiculturalism.

And that’s really where the idea developed. In the 1970s, many have argued that it became, as I said, a kind of celebration of the more superficial aspects of cultural diversity. I would argue that in Canada today we don’t need the agency of the State to promote that kind of cultural diversity. It exists. It is a fact of life. It is deeply grounded in our society and I would further argue that our ethno-cultural communities are sufficiently large and robust with their own resources that they don’t need government contributions or subsidies in order to maintain diversity. It’s there and we all enjoy it.

But, what we need to focus on, I argue, in our Multiculturalism Program, are the concrete challenges of integration. What does that mean? Well, it means making sure that people who arrive in Canada are able as quickly as possible to have competency in one of our two official languages as a pathway to economic and social integration. It means that foreign-educated professionals who arrive here don’t have to struggle endlessly in survival jobs, waiting as they cut through red tape for their foreign credentials to be recognized. It means that there must be true economic… rather quality of opportunity in the economic marketplace for jobs and for people regardless of their origin. It means that young people growing up will hopefully get to know their peers from across the world and will not be… end up being stuck in any kind of cultural enclave.

So those are the kinds of challenges, I think, we need to face, as well… as well as, to be frank, the challenge of radicalization. We’re fortunate that we have not seen too much or too many violent manifestations or radicalization in Canada, but we cannot ignore what we have seen in Europe. We can’t ignore what kind of consequences there are to allowing small minorities of extremists from whatever background to depart from the broad consensus of liberal democratic values and to embrace extremism in either its violent or non-violent incarnations as a way of affecting political change. And that’s why I think we need to focus on youth who can be at risk either to criminality or to extremism.

Now, that’s exactly what we have done through the Multiculturalism Program. We’ve changed the priorities of the program to focus on rapid pathways to integration, building bridges between communities to avoid the isolation of particular ethno-cultural communities, focusing on youth-at-risk and combating radicalization.

I’ll give you one example of the kind of way that we’re doing this concretely. We have a program that I’m really excited about which I’ve just approved which will provide an opportunity for young Canadians of Somali origin, many of whom either arrived in Canada as young children in refugee families or were born here to families in typically disadvantaged circumstances, came to Canada from violence and strife in Somalia, and who typically have grown up in… in… comme on dit en français, les quartiers défavorisés, in difficult neighbourhoods. And what we’re doing through this program now is to make it possible for many of these young people to get internships in profession… professional offices or businesses run typically by members of the Jewish community.

Now it is broader than this. It’s not inclusive to Somali… to Canadian-Somali youth or Jewish professional offices and businesses, but those are the two communities that have created the template for this kind of bridge way to… rather this bridge to a professional experience. And what a great idea this is, I think, that you take a young person who maybe hasn’t had any professional opportunities, has no pre-existing network, you know. His dad is not a lawyer who can… who can get a summer internship just by making a call to a friend. And hopefully this kind of program can create a pathway to begin developing some professional experience for a young person who might otherwise be in situation where they… where one could make less healthy choices.

And so, this is the kind of thing I’m talking about building bridges between communities, helping get people at the beginning of real economic equality of opportunity and at the same time, in a sense indirectly, combating marginal forces of radicalization. That’s what we’ve done with the Multiculturalism Program. We want to encourage people to find ideas, other ways to build bridges of understanding between communities.

lincoln

功课之一：续下篇

In the Immigration Program, what we are doing is to focus increasingly on an Immigration Program that is aligned to Canada’s economic and labour market needs. Some people have argued that there is recent data suggesting that new immigrants to Canada are doing less well than immigrants did 20 or 30 years ago. If so, this is probably because, to some extent, our immigration intake has been less closely aligned to our labour market needs and so more people have arrived here, like I’ve mentioned, and ended up finding themselves stuck in survival jobs, the phenomena… the famous phenomena of the… of the PhD driving a taxicab in Canada.

And so we have taken measures to modify our Immigration Program, maintain very high levels of intake, but we’ve done things like, for instance, to create 38 priority occupations that have been defined on a national basis and people who apply for the Federal Skilled Worker Program in these 38 categories can now get fast-track permanent residency in Canada. They can get a decision on their application for permanent residency within six to 12 months rather than the five to six years it was taking in that program.

We’ve also created the Canadian Experience Class which provides, as I’ve mentioned, a pathway to permanent residency for qualified foreign students as well as qualified temporary foreign workers, because both those students and temporary workers are… in a sense, have had an opportunity to get pre-integrated to improve, if necessary, their official language skills and understand the Canadian culture, labour markets and credential recognition process.

A foreign student who graduates from Western with a Canadian degree, a great Canadian degree, is going to have a much easier pathway into his or her chosen profession than say a 45‑year old foreign educated professional who arrives here without a Canadian degree. So that’s another way that we’re giving people, in a sense, a head start in the process of economic and social integration. And we look forward to making… continuing to make modifications that make our Immigration Program work better for newcomers and our economy.

And finally, in terms of the Citizenship Program, this is the area… this is an area that I’m really looking forward to improving. Frankly, I would argue that it’s been an area that we’ve neglected. We tend to mark success, in the Government of Canada, in terms of citizenship, simply by the number of new citizens that we swear in, in a given year, which on an average basis is about 200,000 a year.

We don’t tend to measure success in the Citizenship Program based on how well or quickly people integrate; how much knowledge they have about Canadian political values, institutions or history. And so, I’ve asked my department to do a top-to-bottom review of the Citizenship Program; to review the educational material; to review and improve significantly the test that leads to… that’s required of new citizens; to look at improving the language requirement as well.

I’ll give you an anecdotal experience… example of why I’m concerned about this. Six weeks ago I was in India on an official visit. I sat in our New Delhi High Commission, on a couple of immigration interviews with people who had applied for permanent residency. I met a woman there, a Canadian citizen, resident in this country for 15 years who had been a Canadian citizen for I think 12 years. In her mid-thirties, living in Surrey, British Columbia, and she was there to make an application to sponsor a spouse to come to Canada. This Canadian woman of Punjabi-Indian origin could not conduct the immigration interview in English or French, but had to conduct it through a Punjabi translator.

We have to ask ourselves, I mean, okay, is that an isolated example? Regrettably, not isolated enough; regrettably, too typical of our failure, our failure, properly to give people an opportunity at integration. How can that woman really open the doors to economic opportunity, to broader social integration if she is locked out by linguistic ability… limited linguistic ability? How broad, how typical is that case? It’s hard to say, but this much I can tell you: only 20% of newcomers to Canada actually enrol in the free language training programs that we offer to permanent residents, pre-Canadian citizenship.

That is to say 80%... now, amongst that 80% presumably many, if not most, of those folks already have very highly developed language skills, but many don’t. And so we need to do more. Now, our government has actually tripled settlement funding for newcomers by about $1.5 billion a year over three years. We are providing more language training than ever before, more language courses, more… more mentorship programs, more programs of all kinds, and yet a relatively small minority of new permanent residents are taking advantage of these courses.

So one thing I’ve asked… the one thing that we’ll hopefully be announcing in the spring, as a kind of pilot innovation, is a way of making newcomers consumers, empowering them with something like a certificate, with a value for language training where they can go and shop around and they’re in the driver seat rather than making them passive consumers of services that are offered by settlement organizations.

This is one of the ways that we’re trying to empower people, but we need to find other ways to do so, and that’s why I’m looking at ways that we can improve the language requirements for Canadian citizenship, but also to ensure that when people do take that oath, they really know, they really understand what it is that they are joining in terms of the Canadian political community and the expectations and responsibilities which they inherit with it.

To paraphrase former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, everyone that comes to Canada has a right to be different, but a duty to integrate. Yes, we have a public responsibility to make it easier for people to integrate into our society, but people need to make an effort as well. And I believe the vast majority of newcomers to this country do, and that’s why they succeed, but we need to help give them the tools. And that is why, as I say, we are looking at improvements to the Citizenship Program and I’ve asked our Department in particular to look at the example of Australia which made some recent significant improvements to their citizenship program.

One thing that Australia did, and I think Britain has recently done as well, which perhaps is worthy… worth consideration is to provide some kind of clear explanation to people before they choose to immigrate to Canada about what they can expect here in terms of our diversity, in terms of our political values; to understand that in Canada, women and men are fully equal; to understand that we have respect for all Canadians regardless of race, ethnicity or religion or sexual orientation. And these are rights and obligations that we all share regardless of our own backgrounds.

In this respect, I think it’s important that we speak bluntly about the efforts of some to, in my judgment, to pervert the Canadian… the best Canadian traditions of diversity and pluralism by importing undercover of multiculturalism extremist ideas. When I say “extremist”, I mean illiberal ideas. I mean ideas about the legitimate use of violence to achieve political ends. I’ll give you an example. I recently gave a speech in London, England, at a major international conference on anti-Semitism, and I said in that speech that the Government of Canada takes a zero tolerance approach towards expressions of anti-Semitism in Canada, and I gave two specific examples.

I said that I had been concerned, for instance, about the statements of the President of the… the former now, the former President of the Canadian Islamic Congress, Mohamed Elmasry, who said on live national television a couple of years ago, that all Israeli citizens over the age of 18 are legitimate targets for elimination, for violence, for murder. Now, I’m not even going to get into what could underline that kind of perspective, but to advocate the… to try to legitimize the killing of a population, all Israelis over the age of 18 years, about four and a half million people, hmm, is, in my judgment, beyond the pale.

I happen to be a hawk on freedom of expression and we have… we inherit… we’ve inherited this marvellously broad liberal British tradition of freedom of expression and thought, but I don’t think that the organs of the Canadian State need to be used to support organizations such as that which promote, in my judgment, a hatred or apologize for, make excuses for violence, extremism, or terrorism.

I similarly talked about the case of another organization whose president has called for the legalization in Canada of a… banned illegal and irremediably anti-Semitic organization like Hamas to be able to operate here and raise money and promote their hateful ideas. Now, my point is simply this: people are free to express their views on foreign policy on the Middle East, to differ with, in this case the policies of the Israeli government. They’re free to say what they will within the bounds of our laws in Canada, but they shouldn’t expect… they shouldn’t expect, just because they claim to represent a particular ethno-cultural community that any idea, no matter how extreme, is going to be treated in the framework of moral relativism as being a legitimate contribution to public discourse, and that organizations like that will receive public support.

And that’s why I’ve said we will not fund groups that make apol… make excuses for violence or terrorism or promote hatred, and I think… It’s very important, because I’ll tell you, when I made that statement about this organization, I received hundreds of letters. I’m talking about the Mr. Mulamar’s Canadian Arab Federation. I received hundreds of letters and e‑mails, principally e‑mails, from Canadians of Arab origin saying “thank you”. Thank you for pointing out that this organization does not represent the vast majority of members of our communities. I can tell you, as I go from… meet with our diverse communities across the country people frequently come up to me and say: “Please don’t allow this marginal individual or organization to claim to represent me or our broader community, because they don’t”.

And I believe that. I think it’s important for people who have public authority and responsibility to support voices of moderation and of broadly liberal values in our ethno-cultural communities, and not allow… and not allow hot heads and advocates of even non-violent extremism to dominate the discourse on behalf of certain communities. And I’ve taken a lot of criticism for taking that position, but when I… when I look to some of what’s happened in Europe, I think it’s the right position for Canada to take.

We are proud of our long tradition of pluralism and respect for others, diversity and multiculturalism, but it does not mean that there are no limits. There certain limits and they are defined by our deeper and best political values of respect for human dignity, the equality of men and women, and of order and liberty in our parliamentary democracy.

So, in closing I would say that… I’ve made some challenging points here. I think we have a great deal to be grateful for as Canadians, as inheritors of this incredible openness that we have, this cultural openness, this vibrant tradition and policy of immigration, this innovative concept of multiculturalism as it’s been applied in Canada. We have a great deal to be grateful for in terms of our sense of shared citizenship and the history and institutions and values and symbols upon which it is based, but we cannot take our success for granted.

Everywhere I go across the world, my counterparts, ministers, political leaders and others ask me, “How is it that Canada has been so successful in reconciling differences and managing diversity?” There is no simple answer to that question, except to say that if we have been successful, we cannot take our success for granted. We, Canadians, you know, we’re kind of modest people on the one hand, on the other, we… I think we sometimes throw our shoulders out of joint patting ourselves on the back. So we cannot be complacent about continuing to… to embrace the advantages of immigration, of cultural diversity while also being forthright and honest with ourselves about some of the challenges that come along with these… with the growing diversity of our Canadian community.

So thanks very much for your attention and I hope that we’ll have a chance for questions. Thank you very much.

chgong100

学习了。
多谢楼主！

sixiangdeyu

wow,总统给力的，要是来个配音演讲就更好了

chgong100

"7. 没找到工作就千万别毕业，一毕业你就开始进入倒计时了。"
请问17楼的这句话是什么意思呢？

sixiangdeyu

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/dep ... eech/2009-03-18.asp

sixiangdeyu

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/dep ... 009-03-18_part1.flv
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/dep ... 009-03-18_part2.flv

lincoln

Thanks,sixiangdeyu, you did a great job!

That's a perfect combination,and we are sure that most of our immigration friends will benefit from reading and listening this important speech,cheers,lincoln.

lincoln

"7. 没找到工作就千万别毕业，一毕业你就开始进入倒计时了。"
请问17楼的这句话是什么意思呢？

我想是帖主是建议最好在毕业之前落实好工作，这样比较稳妥。这可能是失业率在某些地区域，特别是大城市如多伦多等仍然居高不下的现状有关联，一般学校刚毕业的新人由于缺乏工作经验，有时会面临“毕业即失业”的窘境。如果能找到工作就马上毕业开始就业，如果暂时找不到，可以继续读书......。不知道我的理解对不对，毕竟我们没有在加国的相关经历，只能从国内经验和字面意思去理解了。

lincoln

好帖分享，知己知彼是重要的功课，而了解自己，遵循自己内心的想法，战胜和超越自己则是其中最重要的突破点。我认为，只有适合自己的机会和环境才是最好的，一切顺其自然，聆听到自己内心的想法，感受到自己的直觉才是长久发展之道。

说点移民加拿大不适合的事项 可明智选择回流   

　　说点负面的见闻：　　
    争论国内好，还是加拿大好，是没有意义的。各有各的特点。但是，移民来到加拿大，比国内处境困难却是真的。简单说，是几个方面的困难。

　　首先是语言文化不通　　
    语言不好，万事都困难，找专业工作的时候，话都说不利索，人家会要你吗?这个不用多解释。值得重视的是文化差异。中国人比较内敛，低调。但是洋人不这样，你谦虚说自己不行，他就真的认为你不行，结果就是不用你。
　　即使找到工作，甚至在这边生活了十年以上的移民，在公司里都可能是“孤家寡人”，圣诞晚会的时候，独自吃点东西，看别的同事聊的热闹，自己却融不进去。人家讲冰球，聊新闻，谈自己家里的宠物狗，很多华人都参与不进去，也不愿意参与，久而久之，就脱离了公司的文化，金融危机来的时候，容易被先裁员。在提升职务等方面也很吃亏。

　　其次是教育背景和学历，不被承认　　
    这是一个不争的事实。如果你本科是在美国或者加拿大读的，没有任何问题，很容易找到工作。研究生或者博士在这边读的，差一些，也有希望找到工作。但是纯粹的大陆教育背景，就比较难找到专业工作。多考几个证书，会好一点。但是，终究是很困难。

　　第三、国内经验这边也不完全承认　
  　有承认的例子，也有反面的例子。比较技术性强的工作，两边差异小的工作，容易承认。但是，像管理呀，销售啊就比较难。
　　在这种种困难的情况下，很多移民不得不去从事收入很低的工作，包括很累的体力劳动。我们谁都不鄙视体力劳动。但是在国内受过良好教育，衣食无忧的人，到这里来做“民工”，无论如何都不是多数人的理想。由于收入低，劳动时间长，导致休息娱乐、家人团聚的时间少，单调的生活，拮据的经济状况，导致精神上也不够愉快。很有点“洋插队”的意思。
　　另一个让人关注的现象就是，由于很多人无法放弃国内的工作和事业(收入)，而子女有需要在这边教育，造成两地分居。短时间可以，时间长了，当事人自然会有身心痛苦。也有因此情变的例子，造成很多单亲家庭。这种伤痛，一定不是移民者的初衷吧。

　　有钱人来了也苦恼
　　最近两年过来的新移民，其中不乏有钱人。但是接触下来，发现也是各有各的烦恼。最主要的烦恼是生活单调寂寞。因为语言文化隔阂，新移民和洋人交往甚少，有限的华人朋友，和国内的热闹是没法比的。除了投资房产，其他的商业机会比较难把握。
　　前两天还有大陆移民被香港老移民欺诈，生意投资蒙受损失的报道。而我在前面的帖子里曾经说到新老移民的关系问题，有钱的新移民经常感觉自己被当成唐僧肉。但是这些人在国内打拼出来的，都不是省油的灯，来到这边也能斗智斗勇。但是感觉上就郁闷了，加拿大也不是天堂啊。

　　孩子们感觉好吗?
　　孩子们要首先适应语言。然后是跟上课程(这个一般没啥问题)，其次是和同学们交流融合。目前来看，也有个别孩子不能很快适应。觉得被孤立，甚至在学校被欺负(在一些公立学校，生源复杂)。父母如果忙于应付挣钱糊口，疏于关心孩子，甚至个别家长因为压力大，对孩子简单粗暴，则孩子很难有一个和原来预期那样美好的处境。
　　这些现象都是客观存在的，即将过来的兄弟一定要有思想准备。
　　移民如果不适合你，就回流吧：
　　前面谈到过一些新移民过来的负面的东西。现在的实情就是，有很多人想移民出来，也有很多人想回流回去。根据接触到的移民的情况看，其中一部分人回流是明智的选择，此事不能一概而论。在这里讨论，是因为，对那些还没来的人来说，做此决定至关重要。
　　对于那些实力有限需要挣钱生活的技术移民和投资移民来说，能否找到好的工作，是关键。刚来的时候，可以靠打雷波应付一阵。期间通过改善条件努力寻求专业工作。但是如果做不到这一点，或者虽然找到工作，但是收入低，甚至很不稳定，朝不保夕。
　　那么，呆在加拿大，就成了鸡肋。清洁空气和美好的环境，和面包相比，就没那么重要了，时间久了会搞得自己身心俱疲。不如早日回流，另作打算。我观察了一下，处于这种状态的人还真不少。他们越早回国，和国内的差距越小，朋友圈子越容易恢复，越容易找到满意工作。如果在加拿大耽误太久，则两边都无法适应了。
　　移民并不适合于每个人，这是个不争的事实。但是，能够痛定思痛，认清形势的，又有多少那?很多人以孩子教育，环境空气食品安全，为理由，拒绝承认自己在加拿大处境糟糕。其实，识时务者为俊杰。一旦发现移民对自己是个错误，就要尽快改正，这样损失最小。
　　对于那些实力雄厚的投资移民来说，回流这个概念早已被超越了。他们需要的是自由的身份，具体“居住地”的选择，以及生意的重心放在哪里，是可以全球范围内考虑的。
　　对于技术移民中，那些语言好，有良好教育背景和工作经验，已经在加拿大找到稳定高薪工作的人来说，加拿大已经是一片乐土。已经有心情欣赏和享受蓝天白云美景，他们是成功的移民者。
　　人贵在自知。能够审时度势，趋利避害。

lincoln

时间过得真快! 离登陆还有半年了，开始倒计时了,要抓紧做功课了！

今天网上申请了IPSO PROGRAM, 准备花几个月时间完成。同时关注加国就业机会, 想在国内多拿几张国际认可的培训证书,以便找到好的工作。

移路励志语:人最重要的，是拥有跟随内心与直觉的勇气。你的内心与直觉多少已经知道你真正想要成为什么样的人。任何其他事物都是次要的。---- Steven Jobs

lincoln

登陆功课----推荐网站，分享信息。

今天接触到一个加拿大皇家银行（Royal Bank of Canada)的网站，www.rbcroyalbank.com。

网站里有一专栏叫《新移民专页》，里面有很多移民加拿大的宝贵建议和实用工具，还可量身订做自己的备忘清单，推荐各位移友看一下。

David-qd

jmadele

好贴 顶

lincoln

登陆功课---IPSO Project

继享受了加拿大移民局提供的免费服务CIIP后，最近又注册了IPSO Project。今晚通过Skype与JVS Case Manager 商定了IPSO学习计划。准备从2012年1月18日开始，花3-4个月完成所有课程学习和测试，拿到IPSO证书。登陆前三个月在国内开始找工作，寻找面试机会......,lincoln.

sylvie

学习学习

MWang