As I ate my mutter paneer I thought on how Canada has changed from my childhood. In Grade School the most exotic nationality was Polish and eating rice was something remarkable.
My Kindergarten teacher (in an ordinary Public School in a major Canadian city!) told our class, quite unselfconsciously, that we should thank Jesus for creating us white -- it was the best colour to be. (I do not pretend to be better than my times but even as a child I thought there was something wrong with that comment).
Today it is almost inconceivable there would be a school class in any Canadian city with only white students. Canada, in 40 years, has become the world.
James Morton
1100 - 5255 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario
M2N 6P4
3 comments:
Nice post James. It's true. We are the world...
Polish can be exotic... cabbage rolls, anyone? Hmm.. now I'm hungry for a meal at Café Stash in Montréal, an excellent Polish restaurant! Had a lovely meal there a few years back with my one true love. Sigh.
Id say that for sure.Multiculturalism a failure?I think not.
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