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Originally Posted by CMPunk
Examples?
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I don't think it is a racist city, so I have no examples. But talking to people, I hear all sorts of accusations of racism. Calgary and Kingston are statistically the cities in Canada with the highest rate of hate crimes, but I don't think that equates necessarily to them being hateful or racist places. I guess an example recently mentioned TO me was this English immigrant who said that he'd heard a lot of 'racist' comments about recent immigrants, and when he told them he was a recent immigrant, they said 'you're different'. I don't know what comments he heard though, might have been a PC overreaction to moaning about the staff at Tim's barely being able to understand your order.
I say this as someone who considers themselves a Calgarian, who would also be considered a 'visible minority'. Granted, I don't know what White Canadians of European Ancestry say alone, between themselves, in complete privacy. The many such people I associate with haven't said anything in my presence that could be seen as genuinely racist. Perhaps misguided and a bit ignorant.
I think I would
feel ostracized or discriminated against if I were living in a racist city. I go to school in Lethbridge and feel more 'different' there, but the politeness and helpfulness of people down there is wonderful, and while there have been a grand total of
two incidents in which people were unjustifiably rude to me, I would hardly be quick to consider that racism.
I don't think Alberta is a 'racist' province. I think it might be more racist than some other provinces, but I don't think that translates to 'racist' compared to pretty much anywhere else in the world.