Canada kicks racist butt!

[pearljammer]

Chairman-Mao said:

Khuutra said:

Joelcool, I suggest taking a course on the cultural history of Canada starting in the early 1800's; you are in desperate need of perspective concerning racism in your own country.

Canada is a scary place when you know even a sliver of what there is to know.

Please enlighten us all knowing one. I'm ready to learn, grasshopper.

Newfoundland, for example, where I live, had seen the extinction of a particular tribe of people in the 1800's - the Beothuk.

It wasn't the direct result of warfare or anything, but it had been caused mostly by the settling of the most fertile/productive lands, unfair trade, refusal of medicines, provacation.

 

Also in Newfoundland, the French population had been segregated to a particularly low-yielding fishing area - the Port-aux-Port Peninsula. To this day it remains among the poorest ridings in all of Canada and its people still face much prejudice. For my great-grandparents neighbours, who were french, it was blasphemous to speak french and hence, for many families, the language had become a relic of thier heritage.

 

Pre-1800's the French populations in Nova Scotia, a group known as the Acadians had been expulsed from their homes - many moving back to France, some moving to Louisiana, creating the cajun populations.

 

Hell, there are plenty of examples in Atalntic Canada alone. In most of British North America and in the early days of Canada, many people faced racism. It certainly isn't the rosy picture Joelcool presents.

Edit: Holy Hell... I was awfully slow with the response. Feel free to ignore.

Edit 2: Granted all of this happened in BNA ( British North America), but it fit in with the early 1800 suggestion.