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Canada is far less diverse than the US. Canada is about 90% white, the US is about 68% white. And most minorities in Canada are screened for education/intellige
by DilipJ 15y ago
Canada is far less diverse than the US. Canada is about 90% white, the US is about 68% white. And most minorities in Canada are screened for education/intelligence before arrival, whereas in the US most minorities are a byproduct of the transatlantic slave trade/illegal immigration
- wmoxam 15y agoI guess it depends on what you consider 'diverse'. You seem to only consider skin colour. Besides, Canada is more like 80% 'white' vs 72% in the US. An interesting tidbit you may not know is that less then 60% of Canadians speak English as their mother tongue, vs 82% in the US.
- DilipJ 15y agoRight, but a majority of those non-English speakers in Canada are in Quebec speaking French. I can't imagine there's that much of an IQ difference between French- and Anglo-Canadians...
- wmoxam 15y agoActually the non-english speakers are split evenly between french speakers, and speakers of other languages. The discussion was about diversity (and the imagined lack thereof in Canada), not about IQ ...