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[EvilMario]

I'm Canadian, I've never heard of such a problem.

Any links?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/02/22/ns-cross-burning-hants-county.html

Nova Scotia interracial couple have cross burned on their front lawn and hear the usual racist remarks.

 

[lupinko]

There really are a lot of Asian people here in Vancouver.. I'm not surprised they would mention it... for better or worse.


They do.

Well that is why they call it Hongcouver after all. lol

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

Grew up in Edmonton. Even my friends still living there want out and call it Crapmonton.

Extremely racist when I was there. Only Chinese kid in my elementary school. Got called names. Got into fights. You name it.

Toronto ain't perfect and the job market sucks balls, but living here>>>Crapmonton.

 

[gutter_trash]

i got called out when I was 20 for interfering in the Referendum and blocking their independence (by voting NO).

*statistically, 95% of Ethnic Voters voted NO during the 95 Referendum.
We got scapegoated but it was mild
*I am not a visible minority though

I took that as a compliment actually

 

[BocoDragon]

Grew up in Edmonton. Even my friends still living there want out and call it Crapmonton.

Extremely racist when I was there. Only Chinese kid in my elementary school. Got called names. Got into fights. You name it.

Toronto ain't perfect and the job market sucks balls, but living here>>>Crapmonton.

I grew up there too. Not like it was the worst place in the world.. But it ain't good. Co-signed on Crapminton. Never going back.

 

[Azih]

Of course Quebec small towns are a different case. I wouldn't go anywhere outside of Montreal and Quebec City there. Seriously Herouxville, WTF?

 

[gutter_trash]

Of course Quebec small towns are a different case. I wouldn't go anywhere outside of Montreal and Quebec City there. Seriously Herouxville, WTF?

RBO made a funny sketch about Herouxville with this parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmIp7c-MatM

 

[El Sloth]

do people in the east really view calgary as rednecks?? genuine curiosity here. i mean, we DO have the largest gay club west of montreal (according to said gay club haha).

I know a dude from Calgary who views himself as a hick.

 

[The Internet]

My parents are from Pakistan and I was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta. I was only there for a couple of weeks when my dad (who worked in the oilfield) was transfered to Mount Pleasant, Michigan until I was 4. We then moved to Estevan, Saskatchewan where I lived there until I was 8. My dad was then transfrered to Edmonton, Alberta where we stayed until I was 11. Then it was to Red Deer, Alberta until I graduated from High School and then I moved down to Calgary and I've been here ever since.

I was in elementary while I lived in Saskatchewan and never had a single experience of racism even though I was the only "brown" person in my class and one of the few in the entire school. Maybe kids that age are too young to care about things like that.

Edmonton was awesome, class was mixed with black, East Indian, asisan, etc. No experience of racism.

Red Deer was a different story, Middle School was very tough there with alot of racial slurs thrown towards me and I really didn't have too many friends based on that. Red Deer has changed a little bit now, it's almost 100,000 people and I see alot more visable minorities so who knows if Middle School and High School life is more accepting.

I have had no incidents in Calgary but then again I went to post-secondary here and now work downtown. People in this city are really right-wing and are anti-immigration etc, I hear it all the time in other offices with their beliefs but I'm treated with respect so I don't have beef with their conservative minds.

 

[CrushDance]

I grew up there too. Not like it was the worst place in the world.. But it ain't good. Co-signed on Crapminton. Never going back.

Lots of rich people in Alberta, lots from the states as well recently.