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172 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-8858 23:23

One of the things I've been noticing a lot of people saying is that there are things in Canada called "ethnic enclaves" where old stock Canadians feel like they are being pushed out by a minority group. Some have gone so far as to claim that they cannot even get service their own language in places like Richmond, Brampton, Saskatoon and Whitehorse.

I decided to spend a week in Canada's largest and most prominent ethnic enclave.

The first striking thing is that the minute in entered this place, not only did the street signs change languages, they actually changed in design as well. You knew when you entered into this ethnic enclave for sure. Often times, the street name was changed to something else entirely which didn't even resemble the native language.

I spoke with some people in the area and learned that through certain legal loopholes, many people in the area are able to send their kids to schools that exclusively educate them in their mother tongue. And it goes to as high as university because while they are a minority, in universities they make up the defacto majority and are able to get the schools to accommodate them. Whenever I entered a restaurant they'd greet me in their own language first, assuming that I spoke it. Sometimes I couldn't even get well known Canadian staples like pork. There were some restaurants that were entirely free of meat entirely! Clearly, living in the Toronto bubble has blinded me to the scourge of multiculturalism. I didn't realize how the white English minority of Montreal had carved out such a large ethnic enclave for themselves in Westmount to the exclusion of the rest of Quebec. As I walked out and saw Dorchester sign turn into Rene Levesque, I collapsed onto my knees and wept for the future of Canada.

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