text: I wonder if there truly IS growing resentment against immigrants in this country, or simply the increased likelihood (due to the anonymity of the internet, among other reasons) to say negative things about immigrants. I'm old enough to remember similar things being said about other groups of immigrants to Canada. When I was young, Finns weren't true Canadians because their houses always smelled "funny" ( I heard it was because they cooked to much fish), Italians were all either criminals or in the debt of criminals, the Irish swore too much (my family was immigrants from Scotland who reserved most of their venom towards immigrants from Ireland), Jews couldn't be trusted, and Ukrainians ... well, like the Poles, they couldn't even bother learning English! I have to admit that my Canadian upbringing was a continuing education in which group of immigrants to avoid at all costs.
  
  The more things change ...