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Ah yes, we had a mixed race couple to a barbecue here in rural Ontario, he's Swedish, she's Indian. That ended very badly indeed.

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What happened? Make it good.

There is a Black community in NS that are ancestors of slaves that "escaped" to NS through the underground railroad. Many of the Mi'kmaq people are mixed with Caucasian. I grew up with White, Black, Chinese, Lebanese, Mi'kmaq, Indian, Acadian and Jewish kids, most folks are white.

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Isn't leaving a place because of the race of people considered racist? ;)

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Bit of a nonsense term isn't it? Caucasian.

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That was my reaction at first, but her Ottawa comment made me think perhaps the poster left because there was insufficient ethnic mix. If I'm wrong then it is definately racist.

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Her should be his and you are right that I wanted to go somewhere with more ethnic mix. I didn't realise it mattered to me until I lived somewhere that was almost exclusively white.

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Either way, there were too many white people or not enough people who weren't white.

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Everywhere should have one person of each gender from each race/ethnicity and various levels of physical and mental ability and that way everyone will feel included and nobody will have to feel self concious about looking different from the person sat next to them on the bus or whatever.
I don't know but where I grew up in England there was pretty much zero racial diversity, maybe 3 kids in my entire high school who were from a 'visible minority'. Personally I think that made race less of an issue than kids who grow up in places like here in Toronto where it seems to be a big issue all the time and all the kids split off into racially divided groups from innocent social activity to gangs etc.
It never even occured to me or was an issue as a kid because there was no racial tension anywhere, I find that now being in a hugely multicultural city it never even occurs to me really, people are just people. My jugments of people have little to do with ethnicity etc. and more to do with whether they are blocking the door to the subway or trying to run me over at a cross walk.
We did a thing at my work where they put a giant map of the world up and got people to stick a pin of one colour in the country they were born in, another colour in places they had lived and another colour in places they had visited. I think we ended up with maybe 40+ countries of origin and very few areas at least someone hadn't lived. It's such a wide spread that it becomes irrelevant, everyone is from somewhere different so what difference does it make.
In some ways it is more odd being 'caucasian' and an immigrant because at a glance people presume you are a non immigrant Canadian (because you are white) and presume the [insert non caucasian ethnicity] person sat next to you is an immigrant when maybe they are a 3rd generation Canadian. In the ways that it is an advantage in some forms of discrimination it also means you miss out in being considered in some ways an immigrant and it doesn't occur to people that maybe greeting you with something like 'morning guvnor what what' in fake English accent is not really much different tham greeting the Chinese guy in a fake Chinese accent that would cause instant moral outrage at the racist insensitivity...anyway I digress.

Toronto = spectacular ethnic diversity. If that wasn't already well known. You can however step just outside the city and find lots of areas with caucasian majority residents, like Oakville for example, but in the same way you can find areas densly populated by other ethnic groups in just the same way and the city is no different. Almost all my neighbours in my neighbourhood are Italian or Portugese in family origin and you have China town and little Korea or India or Greek Town etc. etc. Diversity but also in some ways little villages separating off along ethnic lines. The main difference though is that anyone from any ethnicity can live in most of these areas quite happily. I guess people jsut like familiarity in the same way you get so many posts in here asking for British food stores and which bars show football games on TV etc.

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Thanks. That made for interesting reading.

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Strikes me you have a non-existent problem.

For instance in some areas of the city where I live some three quarters, if not more, of the kids are from so called visible minorities and the other few (white) kids get their full share of diversity and don't feel the 'odd ones' out. Their (white) parents don't seem to have the same concern you seem to have.

Point here is that it works both ways.

We are living in a country where colour, race and creed are becoming increasingly irrelevant and people are taken for what they are and not what they look like. It might help if you passed this message on to your children.

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Mike, I read the OPs post to mean that was exactly the message they are passing on to their kids. They are a mixed family. The problem lies with others who haven't ever heard this message let alone pass it on to their kids.

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It might help if you passed this message on to your children.[/QUOTE]

Erm ... the kids are secure. It's actually an adult perspective I'm coming from. I'll admit freely that this is probably a feeling that will not go away easily but when past experiences and future worry cross paths, it's something that isn't easy to shake. Thanks, however, for the 'concern' and rest assured the kids are aware of any and all individuals - including themselves.

Cheers all. The world will eventually be one big pot of melt. Diversity or not, these concerns affect others in the same way as they have affected me and it makes for interesting reading learning of others' experiences.

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Well said.
:)

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Have you not read my post????? Wrong end of stick comes to mind.

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As far as I was able to decipher, your post was ambiguous to say the least.

It is good to see such things as skin colour are not a factor as far as your kids are concerned.

Myself, I grew up as a teenager in the mid fifties in India and brown vs white never crossed my mind.

Children are essentially 'colour blind' and any prejdeices they may develop in later life stem from adults.