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The anecdote I have heard is that the USA is a melting pot and Canada is a mosaic. I do notice when I travel to the USA that people seem much more integrated an
by __turbobrew__ 2y ago
The anecdote I have heard is that the USA is a melting pot and Canada is a mosaic. I do notice when I travel to the USA that people seem much more integrated and buy into the USA culture and lifestyle. Here in Canada you just get a bunch of mini communities who do not integrate.
- bombcar 2y agoUSA used to be quite a bit more mosaic before the advent of national television. Most of that’s left of that is place names and weird foods in some areas.
- roncesvalles 2y ago>the USA is a melting pot and Canada is a mosaic Although that's what they teach us in Canadian schools, in my experience it's the opposite. Ghettos and enclaves aren't really a thing in Canada like they are in the US. There are some remarkably insular subcultures within the US like Latinos, Hasidic Jews, the Chinese (in some places), Amish and variants, Indians in certain towns like Edison, Black people in certain cities, to a degree that exists nowhere in Canada (and no, Brampton doesn't compare). Subcultures in general are just not a thing in Canada, it's very much a monoculture.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoIt was relevant when people from all over the world came to Canada instead of from one province in India
- roncesvalles 2y agoI think most of them will integrate eventually; their children will, most certainly. Everybody integrates, that's the Canadian way.
- swat535 2y agoWhy would that be the case?
- seanmcdirmid 2y ago> Ghettos and enclaves aren't really a thing in Canada like they are in the US. I know you are making mostly an anecdotal claim, but if you compare Seattle and Vancouver, and more aptly, their suburbs Bellevue and Richmond, I think the American side is more assimilated simply because we don’t have the percentages of Chinese that the Vancouver area has.