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Originally Posted by kool maudit
This is going to be the new "Americans with skis on the roof in July". "By golly, Martha, this place is full of Chinamen!". I don't think this is a major narrative or perception.
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You almost made me spit my coffee!
Story: My mother was a medical translator for a pharma giant in the 1960s, before I was born.
She was at that point, in her 20s.
She was dispatched on a work trip to Indiana for some reason.
She was coming home, and a young man sidled up to flirt w/her at the airport.
It was July, he apparently asked her if she would miss all the warmth, going back to Canada.
Needless to say, he didn't get to first base.
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I take for granted that in this day and age most Americans are at least somewhat more knowledgeable of Canada.
I'm sure some were then too.
But I wouldn't be surprised if some folks came to Toronto and Vancouver and find it rather more cosmopolitan than they first expected.
That's not suggesting a high level of ignorance; but Toronto is now majority-minority and majority foreign born.
That is comparatively rare among major cities and would surely be surprising to some.
I'm less certain the surprise, as such, would be specific to the Asian-subset of that diversity.