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Originally Posted by Docere
Sorry, I think you're really trying to stretch your case for Canada being "just as nonwhite as the US."
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Okay, maybe Canada is not quite at the US level at the current moment but is quickly trending there and would likely catch up pretty soon.
Both the aboriginal population and visible minority populations in Canada are growing faster than their US counterparts, from a lower base in the case of visible minorities.
Canada's growth from immigration (the US takes in a million immigrants a year, while Canada is planning to take in a million over three years) relative to the US will decide this balance, since natural increase seems to be similar for the two countries (both the US and Canada as countries have below replacement fertility though the US is still higher).
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Originally Posted by saffronleaf
CMA - % Visible Minority - % Aboriginal - % Non-White
Toronto - 51.4% - 0.1% - 51.5%
Vancouver - 48.9% - 2.5% - 51.4%
Winnipeg - 25.7% - 12.2% - 37.9%
Calgary - 33.7% - 3% - 36.7%
Edmonton - 28.1% - 5.9% - 34%
Ottawa - 21.6% + 3% - 24.6%
Montreal - 22.6% - 0.1% - 22.7%
Quebec City - 4.9% + 0.1% - 5%
CMA - % Non-White
Toronto - 51.5%
Vancouver - 51.4%
Winnipeg - 37.9%
Calgary - 36.7%
Edmonton - 34%
Ottawa - 24.6%
Montreal - 22.7%
Quebec City - 5%
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What's notable to me is how Alberta has increased a lot in its non-white population (Calgary and Edmonton are at percentages like what Toronto was like in the 90s) but this diversity has not really trickled down into wider perception of the province.
Even within the wider context of North America, Asian-Canadians as a share of the two Alberta cities are higher than almost all major US cities outside California or Hawaii, and even the city of LA. Yet would the average person, even those familiar with Canadian cities, feel that Calgary or Edmonton is on average, more "Asian" than Los Angeles?