Because of the discrimination in the schools from the past, it affected people of different ethnicities to enter the job market pursuing a professional career. Western Europeans families were the only citizens who could afford a high level of education for their kids, thus giving them an advantage over the non-whites on getting a better degree. Due to their schools being of a higher class, it made the non-whites inferior to the whites when applying for high-class jobs, forcing the freshly graduated non-whites a limited variety of career options and mainly got paid near minimum wage. This was because of many employers outright rejecting them due to a lack of quality education. “A popular explanation is that non-Whites have lower education levels, disqualifying them from better-paying jobs… … However, these highly educated non-Whites held fewer professional/managerial jobs. This suggests that a lack of return on their education, rather than a lack of education, leads to poverty.” Canada recognized these incidents and created the affirmative action act, which protects individuals who faced discrimination in the past and allow them to get hired in a professional field, based on skill rather than their unfortunate lack of education from segregated schools. This act also signals how companies must hire employees based on qualifications rather than ethnicity today. Some minorities even faced unfair wages, such as the Asians in Canada. In the past, Asians were considered as aliens (immigrants from the country Canada is at war with) and the wars caused it to be difficult for them to overcome racism against the British in the job market. An example can be how the British forced cheaper wages upon them, because of the fact Canada was at war with China, and take advantage of them as they were basically considered as enemies. If the Asians rebelled, they would get fired. The reduction of
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