As a white person who has travelled and worked with aboriginals and have stayed for months within or close to remote reserves, I can say that I have faced some pretty severe racial discrimination and generalizations based on my skin colour right down to a few completely unprovoked physical altercations. Many natives I met absolutely hate white people and don't care about your own situation as an individual. It's a form of extreme racism that I don't believe non-whites in Canada experience. I'm not saying that there isn't too much acceptable racism against non-whites, but I don't think non-whites have to fear for their safety like I did staying on the reserve.
On the other hand, some of the closest friends I have are also natives and they fully recognize that other natives can be irrationally racist towards whites. It's hard for non-aboriginal Canadians to meet them half way with all that resistance.
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