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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
canada has a higher foreign born percentage and they speak a wider array of different languages compared to the US.
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That's often why you see such disagreements sometimes about what "diversity" means if you bring up culture between some (usually urban) Americans and Canadians in discussing their metro areas.
Eg. "Our city is more diverse because it has X number of languages, and that's more important than ancestries etc. since different language means a different culture" vs. "different cultures can still operate despite being in the same language. African American culture and Australian culture sure aren't the same even if they speak the same (though different dialects of the same) language" and "African Americans, non-Spanish speaking Hispanics all speak English, so they won't count in the stats if you use language diversity vs. Somali immigrants that speak Somali and Russian immigrants that speak Russian etc." blah blah etc.
Or the idea that because Canada has an entirely different linguistic region (Quebec and more broadly Francophone society) that can exist consuming media in a self-contained way independent of English-speaking society it counts as more diverse than a place where you see Chinese-Americans who watch the same Hollywood movies in English as do African Americans and as do white Americans etc.