Talk:Indo-Canadians/Archive 1

message: Or should it be Indian Canadian?Harrypotter 18:52, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Indo-Canadian is the conventional term in Canada. It's not a pejorative term, as far as I know it's equally accepted among Canadians of South Asian cultural heritage and others.--Anchoress 08:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I'll confirm what Anchoress says. It is a well-known and commonly accepted term, and is in no way pejorative. --GoldKanga 06:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Indo?canadian

message: I put in many references covering much of the article, in order to legitimize the stuff I wrote.  As stated earlier, the Little India reference overlaps several portions (recent history of settlement, types of Indians in Canada, Cultural information), so it is very comprehensive in providing proof of the statements I made.  
--(Parihav 16:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: In the next few days, I will be fixing up the tables to make them more condensed in size, so they do not take up most of the page.
(Parihav 17:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tables

message: The History section of this page is getting pretty long, and deals almost exclusively with immigration, not the history of indo-canadians in Canada. 
There is a History of Chinese immigration to Canada, maybe there should be a History of Indo-Canadian immigration as well? -- TheMightyQuill 15:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not specifically against the idea, but right now there are only a couple of editors working on this article, and I wonder if splitting it will hinder its evolution into a brilliant article. I vote for leaving it as is for now, until either it is polished a bit (look for a 'to do' list from me in the near future), or until there are more editors contributing who will continue to watch/improve the split articles.--Anchoress 02:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

text: The History section deals with more immigration because Indo-Canadians haven't been long enough in Canada unlike the black canadians and chinese canadians. Almost all the Indo-Canadians are foreign-born. Sonic99 03:02, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When writing about the history section of this article, I could only provide details on Immigration since my knowledge of Indian history in Canada is limited to immigration and I could not think of anything else to write about.  I do hope, however, that someone can provide a more well rounded account of contributions of Indians in Canada.  Parihav 22:15, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split into History of Indo-Canadian Immigration? 

message: Where did the editor of this article get his/her data for the Table of Biracial Canadian(white and Other)? If you put a table of statistic in an article, then you have to put your source of information or a link. You cannot make it up. Sonic99 03:12, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When writing academic articles of this nature, I never make things up.  Thank you for reminding me about the error, which I have now fixed.  Parihav 21:46, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The web link that you added for the table, leads to the McMaster University website. The link has nothing to do with biracial Canadians. Nice try. In Canada, inter-racial relationship isn't just white and non-white, but also non-white with other non-white. Sonic99 23:44, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I copied the link wrong, try it now. (Parihav 02:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Sonic99, may I respectfully remind you of the WP policy Assume Good Faith? I don't think it's polite to ascribe malicious motivations to another editor's actions or inactions without evidence thereof.--Anchoress 02:51, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inter-racial Statistics 

message: I have moved the List of Notable Indo-Canadians past and present to a separate page called List of Indo-Canadians, due to the fact that the list has gathered a large number of entries, and will continue to grow therefore making the Indo-Canadian page very long.  This is common on other pages of other Canadian ethnicities, such as on Black Canadians, Jewish Canadians, Italian Canadians etc since thier lists have grown very long too.
Parihav 19:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving the List of Notable Indo-Canadians past and present list

message: I decided to place an ethnic infobox, which is also on the Indian American page.  I chose the pictures of Russel Peters and Lisa Ray, since there were hardly any pictures from any of the Indians listed in the List of Indo-Canadians page.  Therefore if any more pictures do arise, feel free to place them in as well or replace the ones I have put in.
Parihav 20:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic Infobox 

message: For dedicated editors of this page: The "Related Groups" info was removed from all  infoboxes. Comments may be left on the Ethnic groups talk page. Ling.Nut 17:20, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "related groups" info removed from infobox 

message: "However, because the term East Indian is not blatantly pejorative and persists in being widely used by "European" Canadians, this term is also broadly acceptable to and tolerated by most Indo-Canadians."
I have a problem with this sentence.  Firstly, I don't think most white Canadians would identify themselves as "European Canadians" and secondly the term "East Indian" is also used by non-white Canadians as well.  Does anybody have any suggestions on how this could be changed? --Lesouris 08:33, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  European Canadians? 

message: Being from Trinidad myself, why in the world are we assoicated with East Indians? We are separate bunch a people with a separate mentality and way of life. Indian Canadians should only refer to those indians from India period!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.121.89.105 (talk) 16:10, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe you don't associate yourself with Indians, but the fact is that many do and do have ethnic Indian heritage.  Hence they fall under Indo Canadian.  BTW I am Indian from England yet I still call myself Indo Canadian not British Indian.  Does that mean all Indians who were born or raised outside of India should not call themselves Indo Canadian when they move to Canada.  I don't think so.
-Parihav (talk) 02:51, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indo-Carribeans? 

message: This table should be revaluated.  shows that the number of South Asians in the entire city of Toronto is 253,915. The number currently used is from the Toronto East York Community Council.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.114.5 (talk) 17:11, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: someone changed the figures on purpose from the way I had orignally put them in. i changed them back
-Parihav (talk) 03:01, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population in Toronto 

message: It seems to me that this chart is a bit wrong. According to the source, the number of "East Indians" in Toronto outnumber those in Vancouver. Furthermore, the numbers just don't jive with the source. Some of the lower ones are almost accurate, but the whole table seems a little out of whack. (Is this what the previous commenter was referring to, in his/her "Population in Toronto" edit?) Am I just seeing things or am I right?
FamilyCompact (talk) 16:29, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population settlement 

message: When I initially contributed to this article, I had placed accurate religious information.  Someone had changed this up, so I restored it.  My previous edits were erased when the name of this article changed several times, but here is the proof of the original information I put in. [Indo Canadian page]
-Parihav (talk) 02:50, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religous Figures