In the summer/fall I took a two month cross-country tour and took in all the marvels of our great nation…………..we are truly a fortunate people.
It took me a little time to get use to one thing…………..how caucasian our country is. All of Atlantic Canada is white except some original blacks fleeing slavery much like Chatham and Windsor.
QC is completly white and even Montreal wasn’t that cosmoplitan. except for a decent size Haitian and Chinese community which still dedn’t seem that large. All of southern Ontario was predominatly white and any city under 50,000 was completly. Also much of "visual minorities" were Latino or Arabic which both vcan be mistaken for southern Europeans. This is the case in WASPY London were the two largest ethnic groups were Latino and Arabic.
There is a significant number of Filipinos in Winnipeg and Chinese in Calgary and tyo a lesser extent Edmonton.
Outside of those cities all the way from Windsor to Chilliwack was Caucasian or Native {who are NOT an ethnic group} but Abbostford has a huge East Indian populace.
Victoria has a sizable Chinese community but the rest opf the Island is as white as snow. Almost every city under 50,000 looks the same as it would have 50 years ago when the only Asians in town were the ones who ran the Chinese restaurants.
To me it seems like Tor/Van seem to be the multicultural meccas and some exceptions but overall Canada’s multicultural idntity seems to really only revolve around those two cities with some smaller exceptions as I mentioned and in smaller cities/towns and the countryside this talk of our multicultural makeup seems like a world away.
It took me a little time to get use to one thing…………..how caucasian our country is. All of Atlantic Canada is white except some original blacks fleeing slavery much like Chatham and Windsor.
QC is completly white and even Montreal wasn’t that cosmoplitan. except for a decent size Haitian and Chinese community which still dedn’t seem that large. All of southern Ontario was predominatly white and any city under 50,000 was completly. Also much of "visual minorities" were Latino or Arabic which both vcan be mistaken for southern Europeans. This is the case in WASPY London were the two largest ethnic groups were Latino and Arabic.
There is a significant number of Filipinos in Winnipeg and Chinese in Calgary and tyo a lesser extent Edmonton.
Outside of those cities all the way from Windsor to Chilliwack was Caucasian or Native {who are NOT an ethnic group} but Abbostford has a huge East Indian populace.
Victoria has a sizable Chinese community but the rest opf the Island is as white as snow. Almost every city under 50,000 looks the same as it would have 50 years ago when the only Asians in town were the ones who ran the Chinese restaurants.
To me it seems like Tor/Van seem to be the multicultural meccas and some exceptions but overall Canada’s multicultural idntity seems to really only revolve around those two cities with some smaller exceptions as I mentioned and in smaller cities/towns and the countryside this talk of our multicultural makeup seems like a world away.