[lbo-talk] Quebec separatism

[joanna]

Anecdotally -- a Turkish friend and a friend from India have both 
mentioned experiencing racism in Canada and choosing to live outside of 
Canada as a result. The main diff seems to be that the big cities in the 
U.S. are not racist; but the big cities in Canada still are. Haven't 
look at surveys or anything. I don't know how true these anecdotal 
reports are.

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


> tfast at yorku.ca wrote:
>
>> Montreal is a fairly diverse city with old Jewish, Irish, Greek and 
>> Italian
>> communities and more recently home to different ethnic groups from 
>> across the
>> the francaphonie.
>
>
> For someone from New York, it was striking how white service personnel 
> were, however - hotel workers, cabdrivers, restaurants & bars.
>
> A friend who just moved to Montreal from NYC told us that a friend of 
> hers, a musician, said, "I like Montreal. But I couldn't live here - 
> I'm black." I began spinning stories in my head about nationalism & 
> xenophobia. But is that right? Is there anything to the musician's 
> perception?
>
> Didn't the separatists blame "outsiders" - which includes Jews, as I 
> remember - for the failure of the '95 sovereignty referendum?
>
> Doug
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