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Originally Posted by Makarov
In my experience (which is of course hardly scientific), in Canada, there is far more racism directed, and tolerated, towards first nations than towards muslims. Islamophobia seems to be rare in Canada (although, admittedly, I've only ever lived in urban areas in Canada [if one can consider Regina urban I suppose].)
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Yeah, there's still a lot of casual racism towards First Nations people that's totally acceptable in a some circles in Canada. Not raging hatred or anything like that, but more just buying into bad stereotypes and general ignorance. If Canadians saw Americans talking about minorities there in the same way they'd probably laugh at their ignorance, but it can be harder to pick up on your own culture's biases.
Not necessarily referring to stuff in this thread as it's been mostly reasonable (though there have been a couple of borderline things), just a general observation. As you say, there is a definitely a tolerance of a tinge of racism towards First Nations in Canada that there isn't towards other visible minorities.