The 2011 Census of Population on language in Canada was released in October of this year. The census revealed some interesting statistics about the Tamil community.
Growing up, I wasn’t always proud to be Tamil. After all, when your ethnic group is repeatedly stigmatized in the mainstream media as a community of gangsters, insurance fraudsters, welfare cheats, terrorist sympathizers and immigration queue-jumpers, it can’t help but take a hit to your cultural ego.
