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Originally Posted by Thunderball
There's racism everywhere, and maybe you don't feel it while travelling, cause you're there for a short period of time, while you live here, giving you a much wider frame of reference. Think its bad here... try being a black man in the Southern US, or a blonde woman in Mexico and Latin America.
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I know there's racism everywhere and I know it goes both ways. I'm not saying Calgary has racism like the Southern US or Mexico, I'm just saying it's there and you shouldn't pretend it's not. Despite its growth, Calgary still has a small town, Western attitude to it which does tend to sometimes alienate minorities (racial, or otherwise). Is it really bad? no, I love this city and I'm not trying to act like I've been too hard done by, but there certainly have been times where I've felt racism that I wouldn't expect in most big cities. For example, Calgary nightclubs. I don't think racial profiling at most of a cities nightclubs would be accepted in alot of other cities. I actually feel surpsrised at the ease in which I get into nightclubs in other cities (Vancouver, London, Las Vegas). I'm so used to my 50/50 chance, that I'm actually shocked when I don't have to deal with that elsewhere.
Calgary still has alot of growing up to do.