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An interesting thing I noticed after moving to America, is that race is such a big deal here that many issues have to be labeled by race, even if they apply uni
by analyst74 9y ago
An interesting thing I noticed after moving to America, is that race is such a big deal here that many issues have to be labeled by race, even if they apply universally.
Canadian medias on the other hand, seem to be much less interested in playing the race card.
- pm90 9y agoCanada doesn't (to my knowledge) have a history of slavery, de jure (Confederacy) and then de facto (Jim Crow) followed by segregation. That may be the reason there is little interest on "playing the race card".
- rubidium 9y agoCanada has <5% minority groups... most are 2-3%. It's pretty much all white (86% or something) US is 60% white roughly. It's a bigger deal because it's a more noticeable issue.
- kalmari 9y agoits very strange to. i never saw it as a child nor expeirienced it but when i got older in america every one seems to be about race and other things that can differentiate in one way or another.
- anigbrowl 9y agoPossibly because many people have looked at the social narratives that they grew up with and concluded that they did not accurately reflect their experience of the world.
- kalmari 9y agotrue but still why race issues i grew up with many different cultural backgrounds and ethnicities never had issues nor today. is it about misunderstandings or learned and/or brought up that way or trully just the news.
- anigbrowl 9y agoI'm having some trouble parsing your sentence, and do I don't know anything about when/where you grew up that would allow me discuss this in context. This doesn't seem like the place to do a review of the history of race relations in the US, which is a large and complex subject.
- anigbrowl 9y ago'Playing the race card' often comes off as code for saying 'racial issues aren't real.' Are you sure that you're not overlooking significant structural factors just because Canada has less racial tension than the USA does?
- spoiledtechie 9y agoCanada also has less races and it's less diverse than America. The race card has been played way too much these past 8 years. It's disgusting.
- anigbrowl 9y agoYou would probably do well to ignore my comments on any sociopolitical topics then, as the difference in our outlooks will likely cause you acute distress.