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That's a red herring. What proportion of the Black population of Canada do you think descended from slaves?

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I'm afraid I find that inexplicable, is it in "Canadian"?

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you need to quote the poster so we know who you are responding to.

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you wouldnt know would you?

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No idea. But I can imagine that living in a country that treated your descendants as slaves is very different from one that didn't. Race is such a big issue in the US, they seem completely obsessed by it - less so here I'd say.

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The proportion of Black people in Canada who are descended from slaves? I don't know, no, .05%, perhaps?

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Depends where you go, Atlanta, for example, is a mixed race city with no great issues on that score whereas one would not be well advised to try being Black around here.

Incidentally Canada did have people who were kept as slaves. The land around here was cleared by orphans shipped from the UK to work as labourers in terrible conditions. Many were sent to Europe to fight in WW1. Interestingly, those who survived the war chose not to come back to Canada, not one from this county returned.

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Wasn't necessarily commenting on the level of racism in various places. But just to look at US media, culture, comedy etc; racial politics is really important to them - it's seems to me to be ingrained in the same way that the class system is in the UK.

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There's something in that but if we are to look at media, and comedy in particular, then racial politics is important in Canadian comedy too. Little Mosque depends on ethnicity for its attempts at humour and Corner Gas works only because it has a pure white cast.

And then there's Sean Majunder, all his jokes are about his ethnicity and having to deal with the unhyphenated.

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Louis Cardinal is Native .. the mountie in Corner Gas.. not a total white crew.
hey thats interesting too... natives pretty much get the shaft everywhere in North America.. but here they have thier own territory Nunavit.

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Corner Gas (the strongest of the home grown comedies that I've seen, well apart from puppets who kill) is more about small town Canadian culture than race per se, but then again little mosque definitely is. Still, I do feel that race is more important in the US (I accept that this is a qualitative rather than quantitative stance though).

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Also half of Arizona, not that one would chose to live in either place.

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true.

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own territory - you're having a laff right??? they owned everything once upon a time and now instead of vaccines they're sent bodybags, underfunded etc............fair trade right enough! you sure you're Canadian?

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But ones hot and ones cold! HA HA!