Khuutra said:
I wasn't actually talking about Canada in comparison to the US, especially not in the past, but presenting Canada as some kind of bastion of racial and cutural equality is off-base. I would, in poin t of fact, hold that the US is currently better in termso f the state of our racism. It's something like what Malcolm X said concerning racism in the South versus racism in the North: you will know that a man in the South is racist because he will tell you, but a man in the North has his racism covered by his guilt, a culture of guilt that lets the embers of hatred burn long and hot and hidden away, never showing until they are so great and terrible that they burn everything near them (that's why in the past few decades, the greatest part of the KKK was north of the Mason-Dixon line). One interesting thing about Canada that has to be noted is that it's a ocuntry that naturally segregates itself, just like certain parts of the US does; it's why you see such enormous neighborhoods made up of single ethnicities (I'm a white boy living in a predominantly Chinese neighborhood, myself). People can nurse their prejudices without huruting anyone, but they never grow past them either. It's why there's a smaller number of hate crimes up here, even though there's just as much racism (per capita). And uh I feel kind of weird pointing this out, but all the nationalities you just pointed out are predominantly honkies |
LMAO at the bolded part. Yeah I guess that's true but the point is we all got along. I could have started shit with the German guy by telling him his people are Nazis and are responsible for 2 world wars, and I could have made fun of the french guy calling him a frog and a cheese eating surrender monkey, etc, etc. But yeah I guess we were mostly white (I think 2 or 3 coloured people) but whatever.
And yeah I guess there are different racial neighbourhoods in Canada but isn't that the case everywhere? Like in the US you've got Compton and Harlem, 2 neighbourhoods I wouldn't be caught dead in (or else I'd become dead) and then of course there's cuban neighbourhoods in Miami, Mexican neighbourhoods in the southern states, etc. Point is I think neighbourhoods being separated by race naturally kind of happens everywhere in North America (if not the whole world)
