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Originally Posted by Sarah89
You have city people and a diverse group of immigrants versus simple minded Caucasian hosers.
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As a 'simple minded' Canadian hoser you speak of living in one of those cities, your sneering attitude towards anything that doesn't align with your worldview (your opinion that all Americans are rednecks - do you even know any of them personally?, your self-hatred about the Canadian accent, etc.) says more about you than it does about others.
Once upon a time, Toronto was a city of mostly white people. It managed to become multicultural city without many problems.
The people of London, Kingston and Sudbury have visited real cities too. It's not like we're stuck in some North Korean village, isolated from contact with the world. Amazingly, I've had non-white friends (*gasp*) in some of these cities too and if you treat them like people, there tends not to be much issue. Sure, some of our less enlightened population will be jerks, but it's not as if our largest cities are free of racist idiots either.
It's the snotty attitude of superiority from liberal-uppity types that's much more galling. People who've never wandered past the municipal boundaries of our largest cities in Canada but claim to be in touch with ordinary Canadians. People who've never left the sheltered existence of upper-class suburbia and think they know it all because they live in a big city and they vaguely interact with someone with a different skin-tone (Oh, my cleaning lady is from Bangladesh and that means I'm just sooo multiculturally on the cutting edge) they're just superior to the rest of us.
Their attitude pisses me off.