Iranian of the Day

Are you sure you are in Canada?

Fariborz M. St. Louis

Abbas Agha,

You sound like an angry person.  Are you sure you went to Canada?  You might be still in Iran!! 

Yeah.... you want to be a victem.  Most of people I know, started out with NOTHING.  There were times that I was happy to get one meal a day, but I don't blame it on USA or Canada!  You should look and see where you went wrong. 

Vot? Saying you, understand can't

While it looks serious, unfortunately I cannot understand a single word of your Canadian (it certainly isn't English). Take a breath, put aside your jealousy and financial frustrations, and for God's sake hit that Farsi button and spit it out legibly, Haji-Gholam Joon.

you have all your information mixed up

first of all, the racism. I dont know where you get the perseption that canada is THE MOST RACIST country, in fact if you try to cross teh border into the US, its the US that fingerprints you treats you like a threat, not Canada. That is a fact. Secondly Toronto is the most multiculural city in the world. I know you are talking about toronto because it has the best animation school in canada and probably most of the world. I know this because I went to the school and did everythign you want to do. People in Canada have learned to accept everyone and respect everyones differences. Since the 50's massive numbers of immigrants were moving here, and there wasnt that many before so naturally people learned to accept others backgrounds. A HUGE contrast to US. The US wants you to forget where you came from and consider yourself American pleging your alliance to America and NO ONE ELSE. I know this because I live in Canada, and I have family in the US whom I have visited and been there a few times on my own. You my friend are basing very insulting allegations on one trip.

Moving on to your cost analysis. First of all, since when do you need a LICENSE to be a cartoonist/artist? You walk into a studio, show them you can draw and boom you have a job, its that simple. Ive been working in the industry for 5 years now, I know this. If you are refering to a Union, there isnt one in canada. Secondly the tuition. It is a known fact that US tuition is EXTREMELY high, no matter which area you study, you know how high? High enough that canada gets MANY students from the US because its cheaper for them to come to canada pay to live here and pay the tuition of an international student which is generally 3 times the fee for a resident of canada. When I graduated I was paying 7000 a year for tuition. In US at CAL arts(best school in LA), it cost $31000US, I looked it up. Secondly your living expenses. I have houses around the college I attended which I rent out to students for an average of 500, you are right on that. But rent in los angeles is RIDICULOUSLY expensive, unless you live in a really bad part of LA like Watts or something. Sheridan College, the school in Canada is in one of the richest citys in Canada and 500/month in this area is great, on top of that is very SAFE. How many murders have there been in LA last year?

Either someone has been feeding you some weird information, your you are gettng your facts/numbers mixed up. If you need help figuring out how to get into the industry, email me at nikoosharifi@hotmail.com

if he was landing in Canada

I promise most of you guys in USA if was landing like me in Canada you are never had such this luck and most of you guys may ended to sleep on street as homeless, Canada have most stupid system and racism regime I ever saw in my life government of Iran much much better as Canada here some ideas,

I pay $100 for one years to study animation in los angeles

but cost me in canada over $5000....

I pay for my licince as cartoonist 2003 santa mionica for one years $37

in Canada for 6 month cost around $2000

in los angeles I pay $500 for one room + free meals 3 times a day

in Canada cost rent room $500 if you can find room which so many people are sleeping in shelter in Canada because expensive cost of living so much TAX and expensive housing....

In USA I never saw any racism or discrimination when I was there...

in Canada every days I should changing racism and discrimination and %99 of every things are here belong to white blue eyes Canadian...

and after all we can not complain here we can not have right to talk on TV about or write to are local news paper...because all of them run by the white blue eyes Canadian what was happening to me as Iranian artist in Canada after I land here ...is so terrible story may you not believe which I like to left Canada to safer place