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Originally Posted by vid
Detroiters will get a kick out of this. And by "get a kick" I mean "roll your eyes as decades old stereotypes get repeated as if they are facts by people who have never been within two thousands miles of the place".
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Besides the fact that both are viewed as their nation's punching bag (or at least one of them), I honestly don't get the constant need by many Canadians to try and compare themselves to Detroit. These cities have vastly different reasons for being, different periods when they boomed, different industrial focuses during their booms, despite the disparities in wealth Detroit is larger and richer than Winnipeg, etc.
Winnipeg would be a Great Plains city, down here, and it'd seem more accurate to compare it to Minneapolis or Omaha. Metro Detroit is a major industrial, Great Lakes maritime city, which has a history much closer to Toronto than anywhere out west. Forget the stereotypes for a minute; Winnipeg is not "Canada's Detroit"; Detroit is a whole other animal of a case study, even within the United States.
As for the thread, it didn't seem that bad. In fact, most of the posts seemed rather thoughtful, if even some were a bit ignorant. If that'd had been in an American subforum, things would have went racial in the most negative and nasty way, and quickly.