Article: Visible minority term loses usefulness, by Mansoor Ladha

According to the recent report released by the Association of Canadian Studies, the term “visible minority” may have outlived its usefulness in Canada. So am I “an invisible minority” now?

As a member of the visible minority, one has to get used to whatever label that the majority of society gives you. When I lived Africa, we were branded as Asians. Whether you were born in Africa of third generation parents, or visiting Africa from India or Pakistan, anyone with brown pigmentation was branded as an Asian.

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