In light of this study (and there are many other studies showing that to this date white and blacks in the United States have not created a community with a sense of "we", and that Canada still has a marginalized native population), should we categorized past whites in BC as "irrational" in their insistence that Asians were not capable of assimilation? Were they altogether wrong in fearing that, if the borders were not regulated, they would be "swamped" by Asian immigrants?

Past whites assessed and forewarned us about the dangers of Asian swamping. Current whites offer us delusional dreams about racial assimilation and togetherness on the supposition that whites are the only ethnic groups capable of racism. It does not occur to them that the racism of non-Whites may be far cruder since they lack any notion of civic citizenship and a universal "we". Roy's work is all about white racism, of course, but in a sentence about the "leading anti-Asian agitators" among different white ethnics, she slips the following: "the Aboriginals lacked the franchise but when they came into contact with Asians, mainly Japanese fisherman, their views were similar to those of their white counterparts."