It really shows how different Canada is from the US in so many ways. In fact, it really shows how Canada is pretty close to being the best country in the world.
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Well, personally I believe we're the best, when you really factor everything in. But you have to shy away from that on CP or else you'll get essay style responses from some of our American posters on ho Canada's no better than the States, and how Canadians are arrogant and foolish to suggest otherwise.
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40-50% of China is atheist? Has anybody travelled there? What is it like?
Guess it depends how you define religion. Most of the Chinese are Taoists (like me!). Is that considered a religion like Buddhism or more Confucius teaching so therefore not a religion? So if a bazillion Taoists are atheists (like me!) and yeah, China leads the way!
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Guess it depends how you define religion. Most of the Chinese are Taoists (like me!). Is that considered a religion like Buddhism or more Confucius teaching so therefore not a religion? So if a bazillion Taoists are atheists (like me!) and yeah, China leads the way!
Buddhism isn't considered a religion by western standards.
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Is it a religion?
It is neither a religion in the sense in which that word is commonly understood, for it is not "a system of faith and worship owing any allegiance to a supernatural being."
Buddhism does not demand blind faith from its adherents. Here mere belief is dethroned and is substituted by confidence based on knowledge, which, in Pali, is known as saddha. The confidence placed by a follower on the Buddha is like that of a sick person in a noted physician, or a student in his teacher. A Buddhist seeks refuge in the Buddha because it was he who discovered the path of deliverance.
It really shows how different Canada is from the US in so many ways. In fact, it really shows how Canada is pretty close to being the best country in the world.
We're neck and neck with Australia in almost every map. We have more personal freedoms and better equality, but their weather certainly trumps ours. Add in that their wildlife is so much more lethal to humans than ours and I give Canada the edge
Canada and most of Africa is more ethnically diverse than Europe?
Canada certainly is. We have many more native peoples, Chinese people and Indian people to show our diversity than most Europeans.
I think if you look at Europe it's ethically very homogenous for the most part. Africa I'm guessing has many different ethnicities that may look similar
Ethnically homogenous countries tend to be ones which have in some point had a strong nationalistic ("right wing") central government that had an active policy of eradicating ethnic minority identities and languages. (And in a well-known extreme case, also the minority people.) The most important tools here were general conscription and public schools.
This was typical of Europe through most of 19th and at least the first half of 20th century and it's why most people have never heard of the Occitans, or the Manx or a whole number of other groups native to Europe.
Ethnicity is largely a question of self-identification. A strong public school system is a great homogenizer, and has very often been used to deliberately create a unified national history, identity and language. (Note: I'm not saying that these policies were all bad.)
In Canada it seems that you have largely held on to your identity as a nation of immigrants.
The end result is this:
A map of the dominantself-identified ethnic origins of ancestors per census division. Actual physical origins of ancestors may be different.
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This is not the only way of defining ethnicity, but it is one of the better ones.
And of course, since ethnicity is also very much a matter of definition, it makes a big difference how the government makes their statistics. I wouldn't necessarily trust those Russian or Chinese numbers for example.
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