Comment: Do you even bother listening to what "the other side" is saying?

No one is complaining about too many ethnic restaurants , or refusing to be friendly to immigrant neighbours.

What they are complaining about is those immigrants! who do NOT mix and mingle and want o be friends with THEM! Those who stick to their own ethnic enclaves and do NOT "enjoy participating in the community".

People you meet in bookstores are not representative of the immigrants people complain about, i.e. they are literate and educated and speak English for one thing, and so participate in the common mainstream culture.

If a neighbourhood has 5th generation francophones, Nepalese, Indian, Indigenous and Portuguese neighbours, it isn't an ethnic enclave people are complaining about, it is a melting pot, i.e. what those people want to see more of, and complaining that it isn't happening anymore!

How do you make friends with those who never learn English, leave their own ethic community or their own house?