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Originally Posted by manny_santos
It's always interesting reading about multiculturalism in Canada. From my observations it's a phenomenon of the larger cities while in much of the rest of Canada it's a foreign concept. You don't have to drive that far out of Toronto to find homogeneous white communities. When I lived in Kingston, multiculturalism was literally something you only saw on TV.
Since moving to Toronto, Kingston literally feels like an entirely different country.
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For much of Canada, "multiculturalism" amounts to ethnic food, folk dancing and, one hopes, a modicum of tolerance. Where the multicultural crosses over into the Canadian mainstream, it's pretty much Canadian mainstream as far as I can tell.