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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
48% of Toronto is minorities. How is that not significant?
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Toronto is significantly more diverse than most US cities of comparable size. (Though I think to get to 48% you need to include non-hispanic white minorities, like the Portuguese and Italians, who generally wouldn't count as "minorities" in the US.)
Toronto seems, on my sporadic acquaintance, more tolerant than NYC. (Montreal seems less so.) But then I'm not a native NYer, and I find NY and the NE in general to be noticably more racist than other areas of the US I've lived, so my view of the US may be weird. That said, I've found (without living there) Canada to be about as racist overall (including the boonies, not just the major cities) as the US, though the targets are somewhat different. Incidentally, Canada in the boonies can be a weird place.
No racism I have seen anywhere in north america compares at all to what I saw living in Europe. Holy crap, the stuff that was screamed by passers by while I would walk down the street with non-white friends ... and the really scary thing was they were so used to it they often didn't even notice.
BR(I remember a long chat with a Turkish cabbie in Copenhagen who had worked in 7 or 8 European countries, including the UK, France & Germany, about being non-white in Europe. He claimed that Sweden was the most racist place he had ever lived.)C
eta: actually I think I'm wrong about the visible vs. non-visible minority in Toronto thing -
