Sadly there WAS segregation in Canada. Ever heard of Viola Davis Desmond? She is the Canadian Rosa Parks except Rosa Parks came along nine years later so technally Rosa Parks is America's Viola Desmond! Viola lived in Nova Scotia, the very province who prides it's self as being the "end of the underground railroad". Canada may not have the kkk or the larger colour issues that the States has but our history is not as lily white as we might like to believe,
Callie Walsh Exactly. Japanese Canadians were also interned and Chinese Canadians were murdered and oppressed as well. Canada has a racist White past though the land belongs to Indigenous Canadians.
Japanese Canadians got their reparations although not that much :( still sad history but canada is doing better!! free prescription pills for any ontario resident under 25, minimum wage was raised to $14, tuition is now free for low income students, and mariguana will be legalized summer of 2018. Justin Trudeau in office has done so much for canadians we're so happy :)
Sahra I Yeah but racism is still a problem towards non-White Canadians. The racists need to realize that Canada is NOT a White country and they are not entitled to it based solely on the fact that they are White.
Kim Le she said there aren't a lot of black people in canada compared to the US. and she also said things may be different in toronto than in vancouver.
I'm late to the party, but uhhh, yeah, Canadians have a history of racism. We had segregation AND slavery too. Slavery just ended sooner for us, and segregation is still a reality of life for First Nations people. Asians suffered a lot of racism in Canada historically. Our first PM actually advocated strongly for denying Asians the vote. I think the difference is that we didin't enshrine a lot of our racism and as solidly as Americans did in their Constitution. Rest of the list is gold tho!
True dat. I remember the book "Obasan" by Joy Kagawa which talked about that very thing in detail. I probably only know about that book because I'm Asian. :S And let's not forget the Chinese who built the railroad under some pretty horrific conditions...
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Actually, the Constitution didn't mention slavery. Racism was so ingrained that the writers of the Constitution didn't seen any irony in the claim that all men are created equal, in a country in which slavery was legal.
We even had immigration policies that prevented asians from entering Canada during the 1900's like the Chinese Head Tax or the Anti-Asian policy. It wasn't really until Pierre Trudeau became Prime Minister that Canada began to embrace the whole concept of multiculturalism and diversity. A lot of people tend to ignore or forget the fact that Canada was racist too....
Oh GURL! It's so cool to see you with Fung Bros! This has got to be one of my most favourite RUclips videos ever. It's funny cuz you didn't talk about Surrey Jacks!
that fact that Canada doesn't fight wars is SO WRONG Canada fought in WWI, WWII, Korea and Afghanistan. You may be surprised to know that Canada won some major battles ALONE. During the second world war we made it farther inland than any other landing force on D-Day 12 miles to be exact. We liberated the Netherlands when the Americans failed with operation market garden. We broke through the front lines in the battle of the Anzio in Italy. During the first world war we captured a ridge (Vimy Ridge) in 3 days when every other force tired for 3 years. In Korea we held the line against waves of Chinese forces so our allies could retreat. We paid for our independence with blood.
+Briangames PC (BriangamesPC) Canada liberated the Netherlands only when the front reached there. Market Garden (which included British Airborne as well) failed because it was an attempt to capture key bridges by combined air assault and a rapid ground advance up to 50 miles behind enemy lines. That Canada was the military to liberate the Netherlands only came down to the area of operation the Canadians were assigned. Had Canadians been elsewhere in the Allied advance they might have gone straight into Germany.
+Briangames PC (BriangamesPC) Thanks BriangamesPC. There is also the rescue of the US hostages from Iran in 1981. That was totally orchestrated by Canadians and NOT by the Americans as portrayed in Ben Afflecks movie "Argo" I don't know how many US residents realize that.
We didn't have any industries that could profit from it. That's the same reason the north freed their slaves long before the south. It wasn't profitable.
There was Racism/segregation and much more in Canada. THE BIGGEST AND WORST was South African Apartheid was based on Canada's "Native Reserve System". Canada (along with those "Native schools") had a terrible system of discrimination and oppression in place against the "Native People". This system is what South Africa used and copied! I had to learn this from my mother. We didn't learn this in schools when I was growing up (I am 37). By that time our classes came it was erased, but many books and Google show the sources. Also, Asian's during the wars (especially Vancouver). I can go on. Up here (Canada) we "grew up" (and mostly still do, but it is more subtle now) with the same racism as the USA does. Down there it is (mainly) black vs white (jewish vs "others", etc. exist everywhere also) and in Canada it is white vs "Native people" (again there is much more like everywhere else!). Most of it stems back to the settlers and all the decisions and balance of power since. When one society "wins" then there are people who get hurt and "the winners" have some of their people think they know better and enforce their will and ways on others. The founding fathers of the United States knew this so well that they made all the founding documents to try and stop it, yet during the whole time they where breaking their very own words. All these "errors" in history are not "Race", even though that is how they are what is being talked about here, they are "human errors" that will always be there no matter what. If it it wasn't based on "race" then it would be something else "religion" (which was at the base of most of the "racism" and "segregation"/etc.) or a multitude of other reasons (nationalism/etc.) will be used as an excuse for humans to hurt and control other humans!
David Eagen I know this sounds crazy but... Racism happens everywhere every day. Racism is technically a human trait. Humans put themselves into groups based on their own skin colour then fight or hate another. Hate will never end because hate is in everyone's blood.
Dual citizenship FTW! As a "Torontonian", the slang Linda used definitely doesn't apply here haha~ (also actually Canada IS better than the U.S. Fight me.)
Had? Do you know how many reserves have no clean water? Are you aware of the awlful racism spewed towards Aboriginals by MOST Canadians? That our PM is all out ignoring laws and treaties to lay a pipeline that WILL leak? It's not like anything has changed since res schools.
Thas right, the way we treat our Aboriginals brothers and sisters is a disgrace. We has a nation need to make sure that our First Nations have all the resources they need. We need to lsiten to what they are saying and respect Mother Earth.
+Nicholas Wilger I'm Canadian, and I can totally agree we say "eh"."Aboot" no, but DEFINITELY "eh". They just aren't using it in the right context. They like to throw "eh" in whereever they want to, to make fun of us. But we do generally use it when asking a question, where it's expected that the person agree with us. For example, " Wow, the weather is pretty cold today, eh?" We basically turn statements into questions with it :p
Technically when slaves were in Canada it was during British and french rule, canada was not a country at that point And plus: the Underground Railroad that saved slaves in America brings them to Canada. Soooooo
Is it just me as a Canadian citizen, or do I just hate it when someone refers to us as Americans... Yes we live in North America, but we are Canadian not American. Canadian... Edit: I mean that when people are referring to Canadians when talking many times they call them Americans. Its difficult for anyone to immediately know the country someone is from.
Nope, just that all white folks look alike. I guess if I stuck around long enough I could tell the difference. :D For that matter, every country I go to, the natives all look alike :D
kingrocker44 You responded to a person who says people confused Canadians with Americans, and you responded "you white people look alike". So by your response it sounded like you believed only white people live in the USA and Canada.
Now I want to visit Canada so I don't feel like a lonely asian in America cuz some parts of the US there are not as much asians and it feels better when there are alot of asians around like when I go to San Francisco
Yeahh Cali doesn't have that much asians especially where I live. There are alot of variety, but I live in a small town that only has like 5 Chinese people
@@canman5060 Some are descendants of the United Empire Loyalists but as a Canadian I have never met one. I have met many Canadians who some of their ancestors came from the US (myself included) but they came long after the UEL.
Canada kind of technically did not have it because we weren't "Canada" the country as of yet though you're correct that there was slavery in the territory now known as Canada. It was nowhere near the scale that it was in the United States and as you said did end much earlier than in the US.
Daniel Aquilina Yeah, I'm aware of that. Canada, similarly to New England, wasn't so fertile. It was mainly rocks over there, so they had little to no need for slave labor.
***** Yeah. Numerous fugitive slave laws allowed slave-owners to search the Free States for their runaway slaves. This prompted the slaves to move further into Canada. Britain outlawed slavery in 1833, so the runaways stayed in the Free States until then.
Yesterday from the day I posted this, we wore orange bands for the boarding schools they were put in as we disagree with that. It's been 20 years since the last boarding school closed
Misterprickly That's true, though I think 5 years ago there were all sorts of ethnicities in one class. I don't know about now, seems like more from hong kong now =/ And I'm talking about BC
There are a couple of points that were inaccurate. Canada was involved in the war in the Pacific fighting alongside the British and we also fought in Korea as it was a UN intervention. Also, another black mark on our history was when the government of Canada forcibly relocated Japanese-Canadians to the interior. I think Canada has its own problems, they're just not as well known.
iKeel Porpidza Yes, but Japanese spies in America passed photographic imagery of Pearl Harbor to the Japanese Empire. I'm not justifying interment camps, but I understand the reasoning behind it.
Ryan DeJong yeah our government likes to hide those truths and then go "oh right...that incident...woops." I do think though that perceptions of Asian people is a lot more judgemental in the US since Japan attacked Pearl Harbour. The Japanese internment camps in Canada were COMPLETELY unnecessary, but in times of war anyone and everyone from a perceived enemy country becomes a threat. The Germans that had nothing to do with WW1 or WW2 know that experience well. Kitchner, Ontario was actually renamed. It was originally called Berlin, but because of WW1 the name was changed.
We have indeed had our own black marks and problems over the years, particularly in regards to how Asian immigrants were treated historically. We had racist exclusion acts and used cheap Chinese labour out on the West coast just like the US did. Racism drove the internment camps and war propaganda here just as much as in the US (neither country systematically interned citizens of German or Italian ancestry, just Japanese ancestry). Even so, in WW2, our troops were focused in Europe and so we didn't have a pool of veterans with very bad memories of fighting the Japanese to influence our public discourse for years after. The last time we fought in East Asia was in Korea and it was pretty much a forgotten war here too. We just haven't had as much bad blood to get over in living memory regarding conflict with East Asians. Instead, our views are mostly formed from recent immigration, especially the huge wave of migrants from Hong Kong just before the Chinese takeover. That drastically altered Vancouver's demographics and economics (especially housing costs) and like all big changes, it was not universally popular and led to some anti-Chinese sentiment. It also cemented our stereotypes of East Asians as middle-class to wealthy immigrants since most of those who could afford to leave Hong Kong were wealthier folks. Our South Asian population is substantial and I think our actual stereotypes about them are a mix of the two discussed in the video (mostly clean cut, studious and hard working but with some rebellious gangsta types among the young). As for slavery, yes, it existed in Canada as a legal institution until it was banned outright across the British Empire. It just never played much of a role in our history or economics while it was around. We never had slave plantations, mass importation of African slaves or internal social strife as a result of it. Our black population is a mix of later Carribean and African immigrants with some decendents of slaves who fled north via the underground railroad. You only really see significantly sized black populations in Toronto and Montreal (big Haitian immigrant population there), although Halifax has historically had a black community (who have their own history of dubious treatment). Native peoples tend to be the population that are over-represented in our prisons and get heavily stereotyped (although that is slowly improving). Racism certainly exists here but it does tend to be the quieter "snub you without really saying why" or "afraid/mistrusting of a group for no logical reason" types rather than the blatant in your face types. Being openly hateful of groups isn't very socially acceptable, even in very white rural areas. Still, you'll sometimes hear racial slurs (usually when the target it out of earshot) from older or more redneck types. Active hate groups (KKK and their ilk) are social pariahs here. I have noticed that our younger folks are way less tolerant of racism (and often more diverse themselves in urban areas) than prior generations. This might be partly the result of our government rejecting the "melting pot" approach to immigration (assimilate everyone into a single culture) and adopting the "cultural mosaic" approach (encourage people to simultaneously have a Canadian and an ancestral identity, viewing our culture like a patchwork quilt or mosaic) back in the 80s. Kids have spent decades learning that this is how we do it so it seems pretty normal to them. Older folks grew up with Canada's national identity being a British post-colonial white Euro-centric nation with a large French post-colonial isolationist subpopulation (the "two solitudes"). Of course we still had plenty of immigrants from other cultures back then. We just expected them to assimilate and didn't really think of their ancestral culture as part of our national identity. Back around the 1980s, we finished shedding off the leftovers of our colonial identity and decided we were a diverse nation of immigrants. To some degree that's still and idealistic notion and our real national identity lies between the new "mosaic" and the old "two solitudes". It's a big of an urban versus rural divide too. Outside the main urban centres, the population sees very little of our immigrant diversity and is very homogenously white and either anglo or franco, with the local natives being the only "non-whites" they ever interact with.
Vancouver or Toronto has to be the worst place to compare Canadians vs. Americans. People in those two cities, especially Toronto are practically Americans with Canadian citizenships. All the little things, such as 5 lane highways and multiple professional sport teams gives off a huge American influence. For example, Dannie Riel calls Winnipeg home, but she spends 80% of her time in the US. No Canadians want Bieber back in Canada and Drake, without the job with Raptors, he is practically American. *If you want real comparisons*, look at Canadians cities with less than 1 Million people and no celebrities.
Edward Kwong Are you dumb? Her point is that you cannot compare two things that are practically the same. In order to make a proper comparison, you have to find Canadians who do not have the same level of American influence as those found in Vancouver/Toronto.
Edward Kwong Lmao. You do realize that *JUST* one larger state such as California has higher population than all of Canada? I know that were strictly talking about asians, but have you stopped to think that any kind of comparison between Canada and America, is using some sort of *SMALL* unique population sample collected from Canada? So then by using a more Canadian "so to speak" asian population such that of Quebec City, Quebec, the data collected, is going to be way better than taking it from larger cities that has a huge American influence. (Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver). Those 3 cities alone makes up close to one third of the total Canadian population.
YOU WANT UNIQUENESS... That is the only way you can truly differentiate between Asians in Canada to those found in America. One of key points is the FRENCH language. For example, you are a immigrant and want to be a complete Canadian? Learn and become fluent with the two official languages of the country is your best option. And since most of the major cities in Canada are highly American influenced, you cannot use them and therefore, you are left with very small Asian populations for comparisons. I would go as far as to say Calgary and Edmonton are on the same boat as Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto. Don't believe me? One of the biggest similarities of those major cities is the fact that they are all located in the southern part of Canada, near the American border. The exception in Quebec City in being close to the border is the fact that it still retains the French culture, unlike Montreal, whereas the French speaking population is decreasing year to year.
Black Enslavement in Canada In early Canada, the enslavement of African peoples was a legal instrument that helped fuel colonial economic enterprise. Enslavement was introduced by French colonists in New France in the early 1600s, and lasted until it was abolished throughout British North America in 1834.
Dont forget child slavery in the early 19th century to the early 20th century. As well as the white washing of indigenous culture , which sadly lasted a lot longer. The catholic church and canadian government imposed laws that caused 100's of thousands ( if not millions) of indigenous people to be shoved into residential schools where they were commonly beaten, raped, and treated as less than human. They last residential school for indigenous people didn't closed until 1996. From a canadian .
Between 1671 and 1834, New France had 4200 slaves. They were mostly house slaves for the rich. It wasn't exactly a big economic concern. And the residential schools weren't child slavery, they were attempted cultural genocide.
As a country, a nation, Canada did NOT have slavery as the US did. The slavery that existed before 1867 (when Canada became a country) was under the governments of France and Great Britain. Canada's own shame comes from how horrendously we have treated our indigenous peoples.
That we continue to ignore incredible poverty and unlivable conditions for our First People is our shame. So many reserves with no drinking water because of industry. Greedy government plowing through treaties to lay pipelines that will destroy Native lands. Yeah....Canada is so righteous.
it actually really pissed me off when she said here really aren't and black ppl. should i be rude back and say "i thought asian's are smart" know your Canadian history!
This is one of the only nice comments in this comments section😂 Why people are using this video as an excuse to hate either country is beyond me...but thank you for your positivity!:)
It's funny how we humans construct divisions between groups - based on geography, skin color, religion (or lack of), social status, motorist vs cyclist, etcetera, then suddenly become allies against a common enemy (lets call it Trump as an example).
RedPillMale I'm pretty sure they are American and Canadian citizens respectively, and judging by their accents, probably born here, plus they seem like nice people to me, so I don't know what has you so upset.
Um, yeah, Canada is just better in every single aspect, except the winter weather. There are tons of different asians in the other bigger and medium-sized cities, but Vancouver is definitely overrun by Hongers.
Jarrett Long Actually we do we have the cfl where all of your nfl players come from..... They go to the cfl play there untill they get noticed from the nfl and then get drafted.... Dumb fuck
DarPower1 Because USA has an image as the "land of possibilities". It's not a matter of nobody caring for Canada, it's a matter of USA just having an extremely high amount of publicity.
Lol... Canada fought in WWII and was a part of it long before Pearl Harbor. They were even part of D-Day and stormed Juno Beach together with the British.
Bullshit. Vancouver is nothing against San Francisco Chinese food, and Los Angeles Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese cuisine. San Francisco especially, is like the birthplace of Asians in the West, so it's not even the same. Asians in Canada wasn't even a thing until the late 80's.
Most everything about Canada seems better than America. People are nicer it seems like. They're more accepting...and everyone's really hot and the girls are tough * in love *
I have a dominican friend who lives in Canada now, and everything they say is true! Canada is wonderland pals, except for the cold weather, sorry, dominicans are used to the tropic TT.TT
I have nothing against this lady from Vancouver, but uh, all of her perceptions of 'Canadian Asians' are solely Vancouver 'styled' Asians. which i find a big trend from anyone from Vancouver, where they are consulted to inquired about 'Canadian-ness' (which mind you is ridiculously complicated in the first place and varies from province to province), but then shines a light on a very narrow aspect of Canada as a whole which is reflective of their experiences living in Vancouver. I know its not the intention of these lovely peeps in this video to suggest that what they are saying is solely what you should take as truth and 100% correct. but it irks me mildly when the so called 'Canadian representatives' in these comparison types videos don't think about the rest of the country, or even the rest of their Province. I come from Toronto, so i have to constantly be self-aware and remind myself that while my city is incredibly diverse, that isn't the same for Northern Ontario, and though other large cities are also diverse the types of ethnicities vary vastly across the country; including Vancouver. I think self awareness and research is important because other wise it seems like your living in a different country and viewers come to feel that they definitely cannot relate to you.
Sure save your money and come here! Just come in about 4 months. We're going to be buried in snow for the next month or so and cold until about June so...see ya!
You have backwards. In practice Canadians are American - we have pretty much the same accent,t he same clothes, same language, same wars, postage from one works in the other, telephone system is the same (don't need to dial internationally from one to the other), but technically the Canada and America are two different countries.
Brian Castle nope not in practice. an american is someone who lives on the continent of america(i said continent because north and south america are not actual separate continents because they are only separated by a man made structure.)
houseofaction When the first Secretary General of NATO (not an American) famously said NATO was formed ""to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.", people assumed he meant that "Americans" included all of North, South and Central America? It doesn't take long to find many other examples of common usage. Even in the replies to this video when people say "Stupid American" do you assume they're including Canadians and Peruvians?
Brian Castle i do not care when the secretary general of NATO said or what people assume. america is a continent(north and south) and the people in it are americans
Alex Zhou Target sucks a fat one anyways, we didnt get american deals and prices, we would rather go to walmart. .. thats why target didnt succeed here
We used to have a lot of Japanese people in Canada. Then in WW2 we put them in interment camps. So everything has not rainbows and kittens for Asians in Canada
***** Because they completely get left out in the Discourse pertaining to "Asians." BTW, in the US, the term Asian is used strictly to denote East Asian/South East Asian peoples. In the UK, Asian almost 100% of the time means Indian or Pakistani.
That's a tad generalization. Maybe just Pakistan and the Punjab. An Assamese Indian or Tamil or Bengali has little to with a person from Iran or Saudi Arabia. A vast amount of East Asians are Buddhist, a philosophy which originated in India and spread East. Ancient Hindu Empires were completely dominant in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma, Buddhism was prominent in China and Japan.
Actually, *there are a lot of black people in Canada.* You, as a Vancouverite, just wouldn't know that because they're all back east, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area but in other cities as well. BUT, yes, I did see your caveat that says this video mostly applies to Vancouver. Another thing, *we do use our military to fight wars (it's a pacifist lover's myth that we don't). It's in the name...that's what a "military" is for...* One last thing...*do you guys do your homework before you create your videos?* *There was slavery, segregation, and the KKK in Canada.* As a matter of fact, you can't legislate people not liking each other based on race -- it doesn't matter what the _Canadian Charter of Rights_ says (though, JUST LIKE in the USA, legally you can *not* _institutionally_ discriminate based on race. And I LOVE how you guys use the *past* (i.e. slavery and segregation) to proclaim what's happening, and the attitudes, in the *present* (i.e. saying the USA is "racist"...whatever that means)....that's called an anachronism. *Under that criteria, if the USA IS (present tense) racist, then so is Canada...* Other than that, it was a very well done and funny video.
Yeah I was reading about how USA had really really bad borderline-genocide racism against Chinese-Americans and Japanese-Americans, but then I saw that even Canada participated in things like sending Japanese to internment camps and the same American policy that forbade any Chinese immigration (for fear that Asians were taking over the white population) in the 1900s. Though at least Canada compensated and apologized for those things...
The average Canadian has a high level of animosity and racism towards Natives, ongoing. I am always shocked at the venom and blatent hatred demonstrated by MOST Canadians. We aren't so great.
Miss Melle ok...but it is a fact...there are whole neighbourhoods in China that are vacant because the houses were bought as investment. I believe real estate is the biggest appeal for Asians with money. In Vancouver they are trying a vacant house tax to compensate.
Just about to comment this, glad someone else did. They should have done research. We did end slavery earlier but we had residential schools for a long time
Cioas Gavin Well umm she is from BC. The province I live in. The same city I live in. So your point may have had merit but not really in this case. Also I wasn't talking about the Americans I wouldn't expect them to know or care about it considering it has not happened in their country.
+d We also gave horrible food to chinese immigrants working in the mines and we called it Paté Chinois (Sheppard's pie) and they hated it. But we French Canadians love it hahaha! It's Grrreat!
This video is hilarious, and I can definitely relate to many points since I am also an asian from Vancouver. There is one thing that really bugs me though. I know that they're making generalizations, but I find it ill-informed and disrespectful to say that Canadian history is not racist like American history. There has been a shit ton of racism committed against aboriginals (like forcing them into residential schools), and also against the Chinese and Japanese, among other cultures. Just putting that out there!
+Not A Canadian The same interNment camps that occurred in the U.S. of A? That would be negative 1 to each wouldn't it? Utopia is not out there Mulder.
Good video just correction, slavery did exist in Canada; The colony of New France, founded in 1608, was the first major European settlement in what is now Canada. Slavery was an accepted practice in the territory. When New France was conquered by the British in 1759, there were approximately 4,000 enslaved people amongst the 60,000 or so inhabitants of the settlement. The vast majority of them were Indigenous (often called panis) but Black enslaved people also existed as a result of the transatlantic slave trade.
A lot of french people were enslaved by Iroquois tribes as well during raids they made in the Saint-Lawrence valley. It was a way for them to integrate new population in a time when they were decimated by small pox. A lot of Mohawks (Iroquois) now are descended by these french colonists hence a lot of them have french surname. The same applied to slaves in New France, they would be integrated in a family, they would be set free after some time and they would eventually marry into the community. I am not condoning slavery in any way. Slavery is disgusting. But slavery practiced by the french or natives was way different to the slavery practiced by the english in North America. It wasn't large scale, it wasn't a permanent status, you wouldn't be a slave all your life and your kids wouldn't be slaves as well.
Overall, I feel growing up Filipino in Canada that I didn't feel segregated due to my race. Although, I've had a lot of confused looks on people guessing my ethnicity (Mexican? Aboroginal?). #8 - I always felt like "Nammer" and "Honger" were just Vancouver slang. I didn't know it applied to all of Canada. #1 - Canada does have some history of discrimination against Asian ethnicities in the past. The Komagata Maru incident, the Chinese Head Tax, and the emprisonment of Japanese-Canadian citizens in camps during WWII are examples of this. Generally, Canadians want to be embracing of all cultures, but we're not any less guilty of racism from time to time.
theres alot of misinformation about this. i love making canada look great and all but there are obvious fact that have not been told like the chinese slavery and racism in the west and much more things and there are kkk members here and there last time i heard there was a group in B.C etc
+BlackhawkX02 It is, most peaceful country with the lowest rate of crime, every country in "The Americas" South of Canada have very high crime rates. (Heck even Canada's are in some areas but they would still be quite low compared to American Standards). Canada may not be the safest country in the world to live in (as some countries in Europe/ Asia have Canada beat). But when it comes to countries in The Continental Americas Canada is the safest. "The Americas" has the world's Highest Intentional Homicides Rates. It's so bad that the U.S. is considered one of the "good countries." However for a developed nation they bring down the ratings considerably. & Canadian Crime is spilled over & worse because of the Americans & their Arms Deals & cross border contraband.
I'm so thankful that I wasn't born in America because I'm a Muslim. Canada is so accepting of other ethnicities and religions, there are a few times that I've been treated differently because of my religion but there were always people who stood by my side. God bless everyone
;-; omg, don't worry, :3 If anything, there are more Japanese in Canada, particularly Saskatchewan, than there are Jewish people ;-; I'm Israeli and i know no one who speaks my language
+sakaguchi samurai Im sure its because of the area shes in. Vancouver has lots of koreans and chinese at least thats what I see. I may be wrong since I don't go up to every asian in Vancouver and ask them where they are from XD
4:49 - yes there was, underground railroad 4:59 - read up on Africville, Nova Scotia and Dresden, Ontario 4:53 - Stephen Harper!! Lol Coming from an "African-Canadian". Canada is ofcourse less "racist", but only overtly, it's still racist but moreso covertly. And It's just major cities like Tdot, MTL and VanCity that are multicultural, other parts farther upnorth and in other provinces are VERY racist! Like, I would never think of going to newfoundland!
I was going to comment about the railroads. My ancestors had to pay a head tax to get into Canada and were essentially "slaves" for all intents and purposes. Thanks for being so knowledgable and sharing this!
Gordon Jackson Yes the natives here really suffered. However it seems like they are still suffering though. Some people act as if they are no longer relevant or existent in this country.
The one on war bothered me. Average American doesn't want war. But those in Congress or who have a financial stake in war bonds and technology, they want the war cycle to continue. Most Americans just want a job. Still appreciated the video tho.
I truly hope most Americans think like you do. From our perspective in Canada, you guys are making yourself out to be a bunch of bloodthirsty war-mongerers. Calling people 'American' in Canada is seen as an insult. I remember back in the 90's, people wouldn't mind. Nowadays, nobody wants to be called an American.
***** Most Americans under the age 35 see every war that the U.S. has been in in the last 40 years as illegitimate and illegal under the laws of our land. So what are you referring to, I'm curious?
***** I'll be honest; I think it does. The more racist people I've met were in their 50's and 60's. People around my age group (late teens to early 20's) are also racist but only to offend people. They don't truly believe blacks/asians are a different race from us.
XQZ-Me Buds Just because you're taller and richer then your daddy doesn't mean you have to disrespect them like that and doesn't make it any less obvious that you are a rebellious preteen lol
C. Morgan Free Exactly the opposite, sir. I am an East Asian. In fact, we are relatively smaller and poorer than you Europeans. Maybe if the EU's stupidity wasn't this high, the world would have been a much better place. Thank god, there are Americans who are willing to keep those EU warmongering folks in check.
French is a lot more important in Canada than Spanish is in the USA. Spanish is only 13% of the US population and you can go anywhere in America and speak English to people and they understand. They're also only recently accounted for this high of the population, historically Spanish is insignificant even going back a couple decades. French is 21% of Canada, and used to account for a lot more, recent immigrants to English Canada outweigh those to French Canada which is why it's shrinking. Canada's history has been a pretty even split between French and English, making it no way comparable to Spanish in the U.S. You can also go to parts of Canada where everything is in French, again there are no parts of the US that are strictly Spanish. Spanish is a recent phenomena in the USA. French has always been a part of Canada's identity, America's historical figures aren't Spanish, Canada's historical figures are French That girl is from BC so she doesn't realize how huge French is in this country, 1/4 people I know have French heritage. The west always underplays it.
Just like how you are underplaying the influence of Hispanic language and culture in parts of the US like New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and Southern Colorado where Hispanic populations and regional dialects have existed for centuries. It’s not as strong as French in Canada but you are incorrect in saying Spanish is a recent import to the US.
I was so happy when he said Cambodians. Cause most people when they talk or think about Asians the think Vietnamese Chinese Japanese. Some people don't even know what Cambodia is.
As a white Canadian, I personally have never even heard of nammers, buckies, nor hongers. I don't use any racial slurs. We do have Asian gangs that don't dress "gangster", but most people think of Asians as being smart, becoming doctors, with strict parents. There are so many Filipino's here in Alberta!!! I know more Tagalog than I know french. I listened to American rappers more than Canadian rappers. I've never really liked Drake. Asians are definitely considered part of the cooler crowd. We practically had "slaves" they were even Asian, they were technically paid but they got paid half of what a white person made and had poor living conditions. 700 Chinese men died building the railway, works out to be about two died for every mile they built. Canada has publicly talked about how wrong they were for doing that and has apologized for their actions. Better late than never I guess. KKK in Canada are called skinheads, there is racism but I feel like its to a lesser extent and definitely not towards West Asia, more towards Natives and Muslims. I think the racist Canadians just aren't as vocal about it because there are so many people that will stand up for other races. We have way more people who hate racism than there are people whom are racist.
This is correct. However, it has been discussed that racism in Canada is a "quiet racism", where people DO have their thoughts, but don't make a point of it because they would rather not be considered racist in a community that promotes multiculturalism. In America, it can be considered a more "direct racism", where people are unafraid to say their thoughts. In a way, American racism is less stiffling because at least you won't be questioning whether your Middle-eastern friend actually likes you or is secretly hoping to scam you out of your money.
No, you wouldn't have heard it. It's a term that circulates only among those Asian-Canadians, because they feel the "discrimination" that all Asians are the same. So within their own Asians-only societal group, they've created their own inside jokes.
@@chrisa4394 Oh my comment was from 7 years ago. Lol! Things have changed for sure!!! There is way more than there used to be. However, I do think that a big part of that has been the uprise of blatant racism on social media in the states. It has given some Canadians that push to not hold back their bigotry. It is really sad.
You guys should have brought up America's Best Dance Crew! lol so many Asian-American hip hop dancers... Jabawockeez, Kaba Modern, Quest Crew, Poreotics, the list goes on...
RedPillMale you are flat out rude!! Canada is a loving country if you want to be rude go to America and talk to trump so you will get what you deserve rudeness right back to that face of yours!!!💔
Fernaldi Jonatan i heard of hongers but not nammers. maybe it's a younger generation thing (assumption as i know nothing of the older generation, as i consider myself in the 'younger' category...)
they got the wrong info on not being in Wars ,, Canada played a very large role in Korea , in fact a battle called the Kapyon Valley in which the Canadians were in, was known as the turning point to the War, Afghanistan Canada had the 3rd biggest combat role over 44 thousand Canadians served during that conflict ,, THe 1st Gulf war Canada was involved,,, and now Iraq .,, Also Vancouver has a large Korean population .not just Chinese and Filipinos .,,
Oh, I know that part. Honestly would you think a Korean wouldn't know who participated in their own war. I'm referring to the the tolerant part. Even though i live around countless examples of 'Minnesota Nice' around me I've always had been subjected to a little racism, sometimes intentional sometimes not. Canada also seems interesting to me because the culture seems to be reflected highly in Minnesota especially the part I live in.
Jon Marlow Yeah I would say there's less racism. The high-school im going to is easy 30% Asians and around 5% Koreans. Im yet to speak to a person that's ready to say they have a problem with Asians. Vancouver has a huge Asian population too.
Jon Marlow I tend to think of Minnesota as "the state of America that could pretty much be the 11th province of Canada". I don't know why. I doubt we're planning an invasion ^_^
Looks like you guys got the wrong Asian Canadian guru. But then again I'm from Toronto and my opinion is so opposite from her. Cause we don't call those type of girls that are not from North of Vietnam, "Nammers" only if they are really from Vietnam, some of us do, or even call them "Bucky" if their specifically from the north side. So if their not Vietnamese we really don't call them that. So it's not just vietnamese girls we call "Nammers" it's anyone else in general that's Vietnamese. And our country is more Multicultural than America. Especially Toronto. We have every type of Asian here. So when you said that there's Vietnamese and Chinese in the bigger cities, I want to correct you there's an equal of Middle eastern, south eastern, Cambodians and Philiponos, Thai, Korean, but for Thai and Korean is not as much Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodians.
THANK YOU. Toronto slang is mad different. Especially in toronto, many asians here grew up with a little Caribbean influence lol (well the ones I grew up with anyway). She speaks for the west coast. Toronto is a different entity entirely.
Jennifer Liu yeah I know, but almost everyone I've met doesn't understand that, so I just treat it as the US to simplify it for them... does that just confuse people more?
Jennifer Liu in the English speaking world, we say America to refer to the united states. North and South America are two different continents. i dont think Canadians want to be known as Americans.
in Canada mainly Indian, Chinese, and Filipino. in United States there are Japanese, Cambodian, Thai, Laotian, Mien, Hmong, Burmese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Singaporean, and even Mongolian.
Canada IS better than America, i was born in Ontario and raised in Boston, but I visit Canada every summer. I am in Canada right now and i can honestly say Canada is much better to be raised in. From the people being nicer, to an $11 minimum wage, i think Canada is a lot better.
I live in America and in public most of the people seem pretty nice, I've had a lot of awesome teachers too. There was a lady who paid for my sisters coffee(bill that didn't have enough change) and a guy who returned cash that fell out of my mom's purse(my mom wasn't paying attention so he could've kept it).What's your version of "nice"?
Lmaooooo when she dropped the Cantonese! It would be pretty interesting to be born/raised, or at least spend some time in, a country that doesn't ingrain racism into your psyche from the minute you're born. Like imagine living in a country where race isn't that big of a fucking deal... wow! Generally I heard Canada is pretty cool, so ima have to check it out. Fung Bros videos have been super entertaining and interesting lately (more so than usual, but the old ones are tight too!) Keep it up guys!
#3 someone is a tad ignorant. Canada was fighting the Japanese when they were in Hong Kong defending it in WWII, remember HK was part of the British Empire at the time. Canada was also fighting in the Korean War.
And another point. You'll find many Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians in Québec. Mostly descendants of boat people that were refugees here. The language played a big part, of course. But also, Québec politicians at the time put a lot of pressure on the federal gvt to give them shelter. :)
Canada represent!!! Also I found theres a lot of Vietnamese in Quebec lol MTL :P also there was like 6 Viet guys in my high school in Ottawa :P but yeah we love our Asians here. :)
Canada is as racists as the U.S. This whole "Canada is better" is an opinion at best. This was said by my friend from the First Nations. BTW, America outranks Canada in every objective measurable index: HDI and standard of life index. I'm not saying america is better, I'm saying America is better IMO. To each his own.
Last I heard, Canada has a higher medium household income. The US may have a higher average income but that's because of all those CEOs that you guys love. Anytime I see list of best countries to live, even though not number 1 we still outrank the US, in terms of standard of life, healthcare, education etc. Sure, America does outrank Canada in numbers when it comes to obesity, diabetes, gun related deaths, wealth inequality. I'm not saying america is worse, I'm saying America is worse IMO. But i better not talk too much shit or the NSA will start keeping records on me.
So because grammar was not invented by Americans you refuse to use it. Where did you get that I said America is useless? Is this some sort of inner self-image projection? All I did was try to have a tongue in cheek discussion with Andrews, and here you come in with your Fox-like comments.
I think you're talking about Best *Cities to live in. Yes, Vancouver and Toronto always make the list, they top it even, but *Countries as a whole, give me one measurable objective index where Canada outranks the US. World bank, The Economist, Forbes, even the CIA factbook lists the US higher than Canada. As for higher median household income, US is higher than Canada. Again, this information is readily available from reliable sources. I bet you read this from a NYT article? I remember reading one similar to this months ago. Lastly, you're really not one to talk about ignorant, sweeping, "Fox-like" comments. Cheers.
And Alberta should be called Reichberta with all the White folks there. As an American who recently visited BC, Chinese Canadians and Indian Canadians happened to be the friendliest of Canadians I encountered. Canada is a beautiful country.
its next to impossible to get.. or find, a gun here.. x) only way is to have a serious licence for it. Even then.. there's like no reason to have one in the first place.. this whole 'need it for self defence' thing is pointless here. In the last 10 years ive heard of.. i think like 2 shootings in canada.. and these are like.. small shootings..
Oh, the KKK are definitely in Canada. They just might not be as loud about it. And I disagree about the lack of diversity in the Asian Canadian community, at least in Vancouver. Yeah, lots of Chinese, but we've got Koreans, Japanese, etc too.
maybe you'd hear Spanish more in cali, but French is one of our official languages. you see it everywhere and hear it on all of the phone recordings in major companies and government. AND we have to learn French until grade 9. mandatory. dunno about Vancouver, I'm from TO.
uh... This video isn't quite right on two things. 1. The KKK has a history with Saskatchewan, Canada. It was the first place to enter Canada, and the last place to leave. Saskatchewan is like the Virginia of Canada. 2. Canadian gangster rappers don't exist because gangs are a uniquely American and Mexican problem, hence why Canada as a country has more guns than the US by guns to population ratio, but doesn't have a gun problem. Gang's and gang gun violence aren't nationwide social problems in Canada. They only really affect the 3 major cities due to population density..
Sorry - Linda D, that's not 100% true on all. FungBros, you should've asked an Asian that lived in both Vancouver and Toronto. So... Being represented by her, is ... insulting.
Lol. Videos like this only perpetuate negative stereotypes for us North American Asians. Sigh. And they didn't even fact check some of the "facts." Just making dumb claims!
4:54 Is it super nerdy that I have that Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms taped on my bedroom wall? lol. I put it there to celebrate becoming a Canadian citizen in 2006.
I got pretty excited to see this Asian-Canadian representation from the Fung Bros :) A clarification though... Canada's history is not as accepting and multicultural as you had mentioned. Canada did in fact have an official Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred anyone of Chinese ancestry from entering the country. In fact, it wasn't until 1947 that Chinese Canadians were given the right to vote, despite migrating to Canada as early as any other non-Aboriginal settler. What's more, Canada has had an overt history of White Supremacy. The phrase "White Canada forever!" was it's rally cry. It is pretty difficult to learn this history unless you take specific Asian Canadian Studies classes in university, because this part of Canada's history has largely been ignored and swept under the rug. If you do a search on google scholar though, you'll probably find some comprehensive articles and books that speak on the subject.
Thank for that. Asians are to divided, even among our own ethnics n nationality, mainland versus oversea taiwan, hongkong, south n north Vietnamese n koreans, japanese etc.. all stem from cold war mentality learned from western medias, our own ignorant greedy ego selfish leaders keep perpetuate n vicious cycle of hate due misunderstanding that people must belong to this n that group n gang n party etc... so dumb, ignorant as hell, so easy get let others control, dominate n bully us, espescially oversea in west or newlands, Australia n America continents that even our leaders think its perfectly OK westerners control these newlands n have every right to live there not asians unless be 2nd class citizens as normal, and our motherlands leaders abandon their oversea country men struggle to survive in hostile society, system n people and only remember us when they are in troubles. Please spread these messages to all asians. This land is your land, this land is my land, God make land for all people, not just whites, blacks, whatever nor whoever. Asian population in newlands don't reflects asians in asia at all, so thats most unfair racist system in hidden ways, espescially asians in West contributing lot more but get lot less taxes, money, fund, subsidy, bailouts, grants, great jobs in governments n coporations, nice infrastructure, schools, roads, libraries, rights n privileges. Anyway, it cost lot to be racist. Treating others equal to get lot more, not less in return. Chase immigrants out, only chase your American dream out. Remember that.
+R. K. Vis Regardless who ever becomes president. In the end, they are only puppets following orders. World bank owners control the result of the country and its government.
Rhialisse Xavorin canada was in ww1 because they were part of the british empire, so they had fight. they joined ww2 because the parliament voted for it
Demon Wolf It said that Canada doesn't START wars, but if there is a crisis in another country that can't defend itself, OR Britain gets involved, Canada will send troops to that place. Another part of it is that some of the times that Canada sends troops, they act as peacekeepers, teaching the country to defend itself.
Most Canadians don't actually say "aboot" but I think it sounds like "aboot" to Americans because we enunciate the "ou" sound less. At least that's what I've gathered from Americans I've spoken to in the past haha.
Sadly there WAS segregation in Canada. Ever heard of Viola Davis Desmond? She is the Canadian Rosa Parks except Rosa Parks came along nine years later so technally Rosa Parks is America's Viola Desmond! Viola lived in Nova Scotia, the very province who prides it's self as being the "end of the underground railroad". Canada may not have the kkk or the larger colour issues that the States has but our history is not as lily white as we might like to believe,
Callie Walsh and then there's the whole native families being torn apart thing sooo ya
Callie Walsh Exactly. Japanese Canadians were also interned and Chinese Canadians were murdered and oppressed as well. Canada has a racist White past though the land belongs to Indigenous Canadians.
Japanese Canadians got their reparations although not that much :( still sad history but canada is doing better!! free prescription pills for any ontario resident under 25, minimum wage was raised to $14, tuition is now free for low income students, and mariguana will be legalized summer of 2018. Justin Trudeau in office has done so much for canadians we're so happy :)
Sahra I Yeah but racism is still a problem towards non-White Canadians. The racists need to realize that Canada is NOT a White country and they are not entitled to it based solely on the fact that they are White.
Callie Walsh especially with First Nations 😢
This is sooooo wrong there are actually a lot of black people especially in toronto.
thanks i wont go to Toronto anymore then hah!
alot man most are calm though
lol Jamaica tingz
Devine did u even watch the video, they were saying how they're aren't a lot of black people but there is lol
Kim Le she said there aren't a lot of black people in canada compared to the US. and she also said things may be different in toronto than in vancouver.
"No asian youtuber celebs in the US". COUGH ryan COUGH higa COUGH.
+Aman Rizwan he's from hawai
+920192 9201 he still Asian American
Hawaii is part of America....
No East Asian they said. So it doesn't count
rice gum
I'm late to the party, but uhhh, yeah, Canadians have a history of racism. We had segregation AND slavery too. Slavery just ended sooner for us, and segregation is still a reality of life for First Nations people. Asians suffered a lot of racism in Canada historically. Our first PM actually advocated strongly for denying Asians the vote. I think the difference is that we didin't enshrine a lot of our racism and as solidly as Americans did in their Constitution. Rest of the list is gold tho!
Felis Dee we also had Japanese internment camps in Alberta, which no one knows about for some reason!
True dat. I remember the book "Obasan" by Joy Kagawa which talked about that very thing in detail. I probably only know about that book because I'm Asian. :S And let's not forget the Chinese who built the railroad under some pretty horrific conditions...
Actually, the Constitution didn't mention slavery. Racism was so ingrained that the writers of the Constitution didn't seen any irony in the claim that all men are created equal, in a country in which slavery was legal.
We even had immigration policies that prevented asians from entering Canada during the 1900's like the Chinese Head Tax or the Anti-Asian policy. It wasn't really until Pierre Trudeau became Prime Minister that Canada began to embrace the whole concept of multiculturalism and diversity. A lot of people tend to ignore or forget the fact that Canada was racist too....
Can't deny any of it, as Canadians we've had and have it all. Don't know that we take as much pride in it though.
Haha awesome! Had a blast filming with zee hilarious fungbros! =)
I love your videos!!!
Oh GURL! It's so cool to see you with Fung Bros! This has got to be one of my most favourite RUclips videos ever.
It's funny cuz you didn't talk about Surrey Jacks!
Love your videos Leenda :D
Lol Canadians are notorious. For dropping t's. Alber-ta is pronounced alberda torono calgry oddowa were crazy
nyall hughes thats not all true... maybe true in some parts of Canada but Canada is big... trust me im Canadian and from "ToronTo"
that fact that Canada doesn't fight wars is SO WRONG Canada fought in WWI, WWII, Korea and Afghanistan. You may be surprised to know that Canada won some major battles ALONE. During the second world war we made it farther inland than any other landing force on D-Day 12 miles to be exact. We liberated the Netherlands when the Americans failed with operation market garden. We broke through the front lines in the battle of the Anzio in Italy. During the first world war we captured a ridge (Vimy Ridge) in 3 days when every other force tired for 3 years. In Korea we held the line against waves of Chinese forces so our allies could retreat. We paid for our independence with blood.
+Briangames PC (BriangamesPC) Canada liberated the Netherlands only when the front reached there. Market Garden (which included British Airborne as well) failed because it was an attempt to capture key bridges by combined air assault and a rapid ground advance up to 50 miles behind enemy lines. That Canada was the military to liberate the Netherlands only came down to the area of operation the Canadians were assigned. Had Canadians been elsewhere in the Allied advance they might have gone straight into Germany.
+Briangames PC (BriangamesPC)
And dont forget, Canada was fighting in World War Two for More then TWO YEARS before the US.
+Briangames PC (BriangamesPC) So true! Also, segregation and assimilation was definitely a thing.
+Briangames PC (BriangamesPC) Thanks BriangamesPC. There is also the rescue of the US hostages from Iran in 1981. That was totally orchestrated by Canadians and NOT by the Americans as portrayed in Ben Afflecks movie "Argo" I don't know how many US residents realize that.
+Briangames PC (BriangamesPC) yes but we have fought to protect other countries to help but we have not called on war on another country
I’m Canadian and the last point is bs. We had some slavery for sure and we did have segregation. Just not as bad .. :(
tk421missing we have all kinds of people here
tk421missing 🤨 What’s up with you and why are you being so negative?
To go with the "Asian" theme we had a really bad head tax.
We didn't have any industries that could profit from it. That's the same reason the north freed their slaves long before the south. It wasn't profitable.
Slaves were brought over by aristocrats, but it was never industrialized in Canada.
I like how this turned from “Asian Americans differ from Asian Canadians” to “America vs Canada”
Yes, ikr
We also liked how they said asians in america are smarter than asians in canada xD
I'd like to see the Toronto version. Seems like we're a ~bit~ different compared to Vancouver.
I wish these things would leave out the "Canada" and just go with whichever city you're from. Cause this is b.s..
How are where is this ting getting her facts from?
big facts
No problems, as a Torontonian semi-retired single dude, I'm soon moving to either Philippines and Thailand. The hell with Canada for my retirement.
Quite different
This is more Asian British columbians vs Asian Californians
Vancouver asians are lame
the truth has been spoken
No Asians in CT act gangster.
Actually California has about 4 million Asians.
TheSuburbanBase wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow lol
Actually, there WAS segregation in Canada. Read up on Viola Desmond.
just befor 5:01 in the vid it says thire was no slaves thire was just we stop slavery befor that did
and KKK
And of course don't forget about the internment of the Japanese in WW2
There was Racism/segregation and much more in Canada. THE BIGGEST AND WORST was South African Apartheid was based on Canada's "Native Reserve System". Canada (along with those "Native schools") had a terrible system of discrimination and oppression in place against the "Native People". This system is what South Africa used and copied! I had to learn this from my mother. We didn't learn this in schools when I was growing up (I am 37). By that time our classes came it was erased, but many books and Google show the sources. Also, Asian's during the wars (especially Vancouver). I can go on. Up here (Canada) we "grew up" (and mostly still do, but it is more subtle now) with the same racism as the USA does. Down there it is (mainly) black vs white (jewish vs "others", etc. exist everywhere also) and in Canada it is white vs "Native people" (again there is much more like everywhere else!). Most of it stems back to the settlers and all the decisions and balance of power since. When one society "wins" then there are people who get hurt and "the winners" have some of their people think they know better and enforce their will and ways on others.
The founding fathers of the United States knew this so well that they made all the founding documents to try and stop it, yet during the whole time they where breaking their very own words.
All these "errors" in history are not "Race", even though that is how they are what is being talked about here, they are "human errors" that will always be there no matter what. If it it wasn't based on "race" then it would be something else "religion" (which was at the base of most of the "racism" and "segregation"/etc.) or a multitude of other reasons (nationalism/etc.) will be used as an excuse for humans to hurt and control other humans!
David Eagen I know this sounds crazy but... Racism happens everywhere every day. Racism is technically a human trait. Humans put themselves into groups based on their own skin colour then fight or hate another. Hate will never end because hate is in everyone's blood.
Canada has lots of other asians... This video isn't accurate. I am Asian Canadian btw.
this video was made in 2014,so it's most likely not up to date with the information
I am Asian American
I second this, my parents are both immigrants, one from South Korea and the other from The Philipenese
@@JenShea We have every type of Asian in Western Canada too 🙄
Dual citizenship FTW! As a "Torontonian", the slang Linda used definitely doesn't apply here haha~ (also actually Canada IS better than the U.S. Fight me.)
Are u duel?
Nia T yes
Come to visit portland, ok?
Definitely Canada rules
No such thing as "Free" Health Care it should be called Tax Payed Health Care
I'm Canadian but we have to realize that we had residential schools🤷♀️.
susan vy also aboriginal slaves
The better to indoctrinate the sheeple. If you enjoy Socialism then so be it.
Had? Do you know how many reserves have no clean water? Are you aware of the awlful racism spewed towards Aboriginals by MOST Canadians? That our PM is all out ignoring laws and treaties to lay a pipeline that WILL leak? It's not like anything has changed since res schools.
Thas right, the way we treat our Aboriginals brothers and sisters is a disgrace. We has a nation need to make sure that our First Nations have all the resources they need. We need to lsiten to what they are saying and respect Mother Earth.
susan vy so did America
I'm Canadian and no one says "aboot" and "eh"
+Nicholas Wilger If america is full of gun toting fatties, then canada says aboout and eh
+Nicholas Wilger I'm Canadian, and I can totally agree we say "eh"."Aboot" no, but DEFINITELY "eh". They just aren't using it in the right context. They like to throw "eh" in whereever they want to, to make fun of us. But we do generally use it when asking a question, where it's expected that the person agree with us. For example, " Wow, the weather is pretty cold today, eh?" We basically turn statements into questions with it :p
+lilnangle @
+Nicholas Wilger I'm Canadian and I say eh but not aboot because its where i live in canada
I had a grade 8 teacher who said "eh" a lot
Actually there was slavery Canada just stopped slavery before America
Princess Fiore true
Overall, Canada wins
Technically when slaves were in Canada it was during British and french rule, canada was not a country at that point
And plus: the Underground Railroad that saved slaves in America brings them to Canada. Soooooo
theodd fairy America didn’t finish slavery
ASIAN CANADIANS ARE MORE OPEN TO MIX DATING.
not really. it is opposite.
City Canadians don't say aboot or eh?
lol, so tru
Not aboot, but I've heard Torontonians say "eh".
we don't, we say "A"
Is it just me as a Canadian citizen, or do I just hate it when someone refers to us as Americans... Yes we live in North America, but we are Canadian not American. Canadian...
Edit: I mean that when people are referring to Canadians when talking many times they call them Americans. Its difficult for anyone to immediately know the country someone is from.
Can't tell the diff. You white people all look alike. :D
Nope, just that all white folks look alike. I guess if I stuck around long enough I could tell the difference. :D For that matter, every country I go to, the natives all look alike :D
kingrocker44 White people are not the only people who live in Canada and the USA....
sorafanchick Did I say that? Read the previous posts.
kingrocker44 You responded to a person who says people confused Canadians with Americans, and you responded "you white people look alike". So by your response it sounded like you believed only white people live in the USA and Canada.
Now I want to visit Canada so I don't feel like a lonely asian in America cuz some parts of the US there are not as much asians and it feels better when there are alot of asians around like when I go to San Francisco
Go to Cali. There are tons of asians.
I live in northern Cali... No Asians here. XD
Yeahh Cali doesn't have that much asians especially where I live. There are alot of variety, but I live in a small town that only has like 5 Chinese people
Ray Coaster Not exactly it depends, where most are at Vancouver and Toronto. Other places ehhh not as many, you just have to know where to look.
I live in Canada and my school is basicly just all asians with like 20/500 white kids all taught by white teachers
THERE WAS SLAVERY IN CANADA !! WE LEARN ABOUT THIS IN SOCIALS 10
I think she meant Canada, as a country; Not as a colony. We didn't become a country (independent from Britain/France until 1867). They had slavery.
Summr Usman it wasn’t Canada then it was France and Brits who brought the slaves.
Damn we never learned that in california
No... slavery is uniquely American
@@canman5060 Some are descendants of the United Empire Loyalists but as a Canadian I have never met one. I have met many Canadians who some of their ancestors came from the US (myself included) but they came long after the UEL.
Im from canada and never heard that slang ever
Same
it's a native canadian accent , ask your grandma about it.
never heard of it either
+Alpha Slick my grandma is from England,and the closest people that Talk like aboot,and Eh!are Newfies and other far east Canadians!
its prob that made up slang that no one ever uses but somehow exists
Actually, Canada did have slavery, but they got rid of it much earlier than the U.S.
That's why Canada is better.
Canada kind of technically did not have it because we weren't "Canada" the country as of yet though you're correct that there was slavery in the territory now known as Canada. It was nowhere near the scale that it was in the United States and as you said did end much earlier than in the US.
Daniel Aquilina Yeah, I'm aware of that. Canada, similarly to New England, wasn't so fertile. It was mainly rocks over there, so they had little to no need for slave labor.
***** Yes, most into Nova Scotia.
***** Yeah. Numerous fugitive slave laws allowed slave-owners to search the Free States for their runaway slaves. This prompted the slaves to move further into Canada. Britain outlawed slavery in 1833, so the runaways stayed in the Free States until then.
no racism in Canada? what about the first nations and the boarding schools they were forced in to become Europeanized?
Ya i rote the same thing
yeah i agree, but i think they meant more racism in america.
Lol xd
Yesterday from the day I posted this, we wore orange bands for the boarding schools they were put in as we disagree with that. It's been 20 years since the last boarding school closed
basically racism against natives in Canada = sending natives to school
racism against natives in America = putting natives in graves.
You are a clown.
"Big American lake" Boi, Canadians have more lakes that every other country in the world combined
Sinister shhhh don’t tell no one
He meant that we have a bigger population
looks like some one here doesn't know what a metaphor is
You lack basic comprehension skills
WTF! We have *EVERY KIND OF ASIAN IN CANADA!*
Misterprickly I know we have so many,
Perhaps they are speaking for those in BC but here in Ontario we have a wide variety
Misterprickly That's true, though I think 5 years ago there were all sorts of ethnicities in one class. I don't know about now, seems like more from hong kong now =/
And I'm talking about BC
Fire Heart No, BC has pretty much all kinds as well. I have korean friends and japanese friends =/ so they definitely exist
KizuRai oh okay then i guess they have been misinformed
There are a couple of points that were inaccurate. Canada was involved in the war in the Pacific fighting alongside the British and we also fought in Korea as it was a UN intervention. Also, another black mark on our history was when the government of Canada forcibly relocated Japanese-Canadians to the interior. I think Canada has its own problems, they're just not as well known.
*****
whats your point? the japanese people who were forced to relocate had nothing to do with the killings the japanese empire did in ww2.
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again, wtf is your point? neither Ryan or I mention anything about slavery numb nuts
iKeel Porpidza Yes, but Japanese spies in America passed photographic imagery of Pearl Harbor to the Japanese Empire. I'm not justifying interment camps, but I understand the reasoning behind it.
Ryan DeJong yeah our government likes to hide those truths and then go "oh right...that incident...woops." I do think though that perceptions of Asian people is a lot more judgemental in the US since Japan attacked Pearl Harbour. The Japanese internment camps in Canada were COMPLETELY unnecessary, but in times of war anyone and everyone from a perceived enemy country becomes a threat. The Germans that had nothing to do with WW1 or WW2 know that experience well. Kitchner, Ontario was actually renamed. It was originally called Berlin, but because of WW1 the name was changed.
We have indeed had our own black marks and problems over the years, particularly in regards to how Asian immigrants were treated historically. We had racist exclusion acts and used cheap Chinese labour out on the West coast just like the US did. Racism drove the internment camps and war propaganda here just as much as in the US (neither country systematically interned citizens of German or Italian ancestry, just Japanese ancestry). Even so, in WW2, our troops were focused in Europe and so we didn't have a pool of veterans with very bad memories of fighting the Japanese to influence our public discourse for years after. The last time we fought in East Asia was in Korea and it was pretty much a forgotten war here too. We just haven't had as much bad blood to get over in living memory regarding conflict with East Asians.
Instead, our views are mostly formed from recent immigration, especially the huge wave of migrants from Hong Kong just before the Chinese takeover. That drastically altered Vancouver's demographics and economics (especially housing costs) and like all big changes, it was not universally popular and led to some anti-Chinese sentiment. It also cemented our stereotypes of East Asians as middle-class to wealthy immigrants since most of those who could afford to leave Hong Kong were wealthier folks. Our South Asian population is substantial and I think our actual stereotypes about them are a mix of the two discussed in the video (mostly clean cut, studious and hard working but with some rebellious gangsta types among the young).
As for slavery, yes, it existed in Canada as a legal institution until it was banned outright across the British Empire. It just never played much of a role in our history or economics while it was around. We never had slave plantations, mass importation of African slaves or internal social strife as a result of it. Our black population is a mix of later Carribean and African immigrants with some decendents of slaves who fled north via the underground railroad. You only really see significantly sized black populations in Toronto and Montreal (big Haitian immigrant population there), although Halifax has historically had a black community (who have their own history of dubious treatment). Native peoples tend to be the population that are over-represented in our prisons and get heavily stereotyped (although that is slowly improving).
Racism certainly exists here but it does tend to be the quieter "snub you without really saying why" or "afraid/mistrusting of a group for no logical reason" types rather than the blatant in your face types. Being openly hateful of groups isn't very socially acceptable, even in very white rural areas. Still, you'll sometimes hear racial slurs (usually when the target it out of earshot) from older or more redneck types. Active hate groups (KKK and their ilk) are social pariahs here.
I have noticed that our younger folks are way less tolerant of racism (and often more diverse themselves in urban areas) than prior generations. This might be partly the result of our government rejecting the "melting pot" approach to immigration (assimilate everyone into a single culture) and adopting the "cultural mosaic" approach (encourage people to simultaneously have a Canadian and an ancestral identity, viewing our culture like a patchwork quilt or mosaic) back in the 80s. Kids have spent decades learning that this is how we do it so it seems pretty normal to them. Older folks grew up with Canada's national identity being a British post-colonial white Euro-centric nation with a large French post-colonial isolationist subpopulation (the "two solitudes").
Of course we still had plenty of immigrants from other cultures back then. We just expected them to assimilate and didn't really think of their ancestral culture as part of our national identity. Back around the 1980s, we finished shedding off the leftovers of our colonial identity and decided we were a diverse nation of immigrants. To some degree that's still and idealistic notion and our real national identity lies between the new "mosaic" and the old "two solitudes". It's a big of an urban versus rural divide too. Outside the main urban centres, the population sees very little of our immigrant diversity and is very homogenously white and either anglo or franco, with the local natives being the only "non-whites" they ever interact with.
Vancouver or Toronto has to be the worst place to compare Canadians vs. Americans. People in those two cities, especially Toronto are practically Americans with Canadian citizenships. All the little things, such as 5 lane highways and multiple professional sport teams gives off a huge American influence. For example, Dannie Riel calls Winnipeg home, but she spends 80% of her time in the US. No Canadians want Bieber back in Canada and Drake, without the job with Raptors, he is practically American.
*If you want real comparisons*, look at Canadians cities with less than 1 Million people and no celebrities.
Edward Kwong
Are you dumb? Her point is that you cannot compare two things that are practically the same. In order to make a proper comparison, you have to find Canadians who do not have the same level of American influence as those found in Vancouver/Toronto.
Edward Kwong
Lmao. You do realize that *JUST* one larger state such as California has higher population than all of Canada? I know that were strictly talking about asians, but have you stopped to think that any kind of comparison between Canada and America, is using some sort of *SMALL* unique population sample collected from Canada? So then by using a more Canadian "so to speak" asian population such that of Quebec City, Quebec, the data collected, is going to be way better than taking it from larger cities that has a huge American influence. (Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver). Those 3 cities alone makes up close to one third of the total Canadian population.
YOU WANT UNIQUENESS... That is the only way you can truly differentiate between Asians in Canada to those found in America. One of key points is the FRENCH language. For example, you are a immigrant and want to be a complete Canadian? Learn and become fluent with the two official languages of the country is your best option. And since most of the major cities in Canada are highly American influenced, you cannot use them and therefore, you are left with very small Asian populations for comparisons. I would go as far as to say Calgary and Edmonton are on the same boat as Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto. Don't believe me? One of the biggest similarities of those major cities is the fact that they are all located in the southern part of Canada, near the American border. The exception in Quebec City in being close to the border is the fact that it still retains the French culture, unlike Montreal, whereas the French speaking population is decreasing year to year.
GO TO PROVINCE LIKE ALBERTA ,PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND OR SASKATCHEWAN IF YOU WANNA SEE REAL CANADIANS!!!!!
sooo true Calgary is the place where you can see like fricken %96 of asians
Black Enslavement in Canada
In early Canada, the enslavement of African peoples was a legal instrument that helped fuel colonial economic enterprise. Enslavement was introduced by French colonists in New France in the early 1600s, and lasted until it was abolished throughout British North America in 1834.
Dont forget child slavery in the early 19th century to the early 20th century. As well as the white washing of indigenous culture , which sadly lasted a lot longer. The catholic church and canadian government imposed laws that caused 100's of thousands ( if not millions) of indigenous people to be shoved into residential schools where they were commonly beaten, raped, and treated as less than human. They last residential school for indigenous people didn't closed until 1996.
From a canadian .
Between 1671 and 1834, New France had 4200 slaves. They were mostly house slaves for the rich. It wasn't exactly a big economic concern.
And the residential schools weren't child slavery, they were attempted cultural genocide.
As a country, a nation, Canada did NOT have slavery as the US did. The slavery that existed before 1867 (when Canada became a country) was under the governments of France and Great Britain. Canada's own shame comes from how horrendously we have treated our indigenous peoples.
That we continue to ignore incredible poverty and unlivable conditions for our First People is our shame. So many reserves with no drinking water because of industry. Greedy government plowing through treaties to lay pipelines that will destroy Native lands. Yeah....Canada is so righteous.
it actually really pissed me off when she said here really aren't and black ppl. should i be rude back and say "i thought asian's are smart" know your Canadian history!
doesn't matter if Canadian or American. We're Asians and I love my Asian people
This is one of the only nice comments in this comments section😂 Why people are using this video as an excuse to hate either country is beyond me...but thank you for your positivity!:)
Portal Thanks for your positivity.
It's funny how we humans construct divisions between groups - based on geography, skin color, religion (or lack of), social status, motorist vs cyclist, etcetera, then suddenly become allies against a common enemy (lets call it Trump as an example).
Can't you love your own Asian kind in your own countries and stop bugging us with your bull shit here?
RedPillMale I'm pretty sure they are American and Canadian citizens respectively, and judging by their accents, probably born here, plus they seem like nice people to me, so I don't know what has you so upset.
Um, yeah, Canada is just better in every single aspect, except the winter weather. There are tons of different asians in the other bigger and medium-sized cities, but Vancouver is definitely overrun by Hongers.
Bruh, You dont even got football.
Jarrett Long cuz football is a sport where big fat men wear tight pants and touch eachothers butts, no thank you.
Then explain why more people want to go to the United States? And no one cares about Canada?
Jarrett Long Actually we do we have the cfl where all of your nfl players come from..... They go to the cfl play there untill they get noticed from the nfl and then get drafted.... Dumb fuck
DarPower1 Because USA has an image as the "land of possibilities". It's not a matter of nobody caring for Canada, it's a matter of USA just having an extremely high amount of publicity.
I kinda wanna be an Asian Canadian now....
CANADA FOR THE WIN!
***** Lol you said "eh" just like how Canadians do XD
***** I just hate how people in america are so racist to asian, like in Canada they accept all asians and it so chill there
Ikr seems like there's more asians there
fuckk u
Lol... Canada fought in WWII and was a part of it long before Pearl Harbor. They were even part of D-Day and stormed Juno Beach together with the British.
You forgot difference #1: Asian food in Vancouver is 10x better than ANY American city.
Yes that's absolutely true my cousins own a restaurant called Paradise and their food is amazing!
Bullshit.
Vancouver is nothing against San Francisco Chinese food, and Los Angeles Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese cuisine.
San Francisco especially, is like the birthplace of Asians in the West, so it's not even the same. Asians in Canada wasn't even a thing until the late 80's.
DarPower1 Got a problem?
Victor Prom Yeah, I'm astonished that recently Asian Vancouver has better food than cities thats been bring cuisine from the Orient since the 1800's.
Well... with over 30 dim sum restaurants and all the other asian cuisines I'm not surprised about that
But.... Canada IS better...
I agree
YASSS CANADA FTW
***** evidence?
Most everything about Canada seems better than America. People are nicer it seems like. They're more accepting...and everyone's really hot and the girls are tough * in love *
I have a dominican friend who lives in Canada now, and everything they say is true! Canada is wonderland pals, except for the cold weather, sorry, dominicans are used to the tropic TT.TT
I have nothing against this lady from Vancouver, but uh, all of her perceptions of 'Canadian Asians' are solely Vancouver 'styled' Asians. which i find a big trend from anyone from Vancouver, where they are consulted to inquired about 'Canadian-ness' (which mind you is ridiculously complicated in the first place and varies from province to province), but then shines a light on a very narrow aspect of Canada as a whole which is reflective of their experiences living in Vancouver. I know its not the intention of these lovely peeps in this video to suggest that what they are saying is solely what you should take as truth and 100% correct. but it irks me mildly when the so called 'Canadian representatives' in these comparison types videos don't think about the rest of the country, or even the rest of their Province.
I come from Toronto, so i have to constantly be self-aware and remind myself that while my city is incredibly diverse, that isn't the same for Northern Ontario, and though other large cities are also diverse the types of ethnicities vary vastly across the country; including Vancouver. I think self awareness and research is important because other wise it seems like your living in a different country and viewers come to feel that they definitely cannot relate to you.
+taxidermyrampage talk* not inquired
Her account of Vancouver isn't even accurate, nevermind the entire country.
+taxidermyrampage Your comment is far better than the video.....which, to be fair, wasn't hard to top.
I live in Vancomycin but my brother lives in Toronto every time I visit, Central island and CN tower are a must go
+Yan Qin *Vancouver
1:16 just a correction: Magic of Rahat is actually a Bangladeshi not an Indian.
I wanna go to Canada! And you can't stop me!
***** one day i will but right now I'm stuck at home
It's freaking cold over here. lol -_-
Sure save your money and come here! Just come in about 4 months. We're going to be buried in snow for the next month or so and cold until about June so...see ya!
YouKnowYongHwa i like the cold
Raba Mustapha okay! haha
technically Canadians are American as well
You have backwards. In practice Canadians are American - we have pretty much the same accent,t he same clothes, same language, same wars, postage from one works in the other, telephone system is the same (don't need to dial internationally from one to the other), but technically the Canada and America are two different countries.
Brian Castle nope not in practice. an american is someone who lives on the continent of america(i said continent because north and south america are not actual separate continents because they are only separated by a man made structure.)
houseofaction When the first Secretary General of NATO (not an American) famously said NATO was formed ""to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.", people assumed he meant that "Americans" included all of North, South and Central America? It doesn't take long to find many other examples of common usage. Even in the replies to this video when people say "Stupid American" do you assume they're including Canadians and Peruvians?
Brian Castle i do not care when the secretary general of NATO said or what people assume. america is a continent(north and south) and the people in it are americans
Sure, everyone is free to make up their own definitions or to use definitions that are 200+ years out of date, so feel free to go ahead and do that.
Canada also doesn't have targets anymore.
Alex Zhou and best buy took over future shop
Ikr whyyyyyyy 😭😭💔💔
Kuldeep Sharma Tell me you knew about this since 2001.
Alex Zhou the day i cried
Alex Zhou Target sucks a fat one anyways, we didnt get american deals and prices, we would rather go to walmart. .. thats why target didnt succeed here
We used to have a lot of Japanese people in Canada. Then in WW2 we put them in interment camps. So everything has not rainbows and kittens for Asians in Canada
Thanks for including Indo-Canadians as Asians.
Because almost EVERYONE forgets that they too are Asian.
***** Because they completely get left out in the Discourse pertaining to "Asians." BTW, in the US, the term Asian is used strictly to denote East Asian/South East Asian peoples. In the UK, Asian almost 100% of the time means Indian or Pakistani.
That's a tad generalization. Maybe just Pakistan and the Punjab. An Assamese Indian or Tamil or Bengali has little to with a person from Iran or Saudi Arabia. A vast amount of East Asians are Buddhist, a philosophy which originated in India and spread East. Ancient Hindu Empires were completely dominant in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma, Buddhism was prominent in China and Japan.
dude techniclly russians are asian but you dont see them crying aboot it lol
Coolman1695 That's cause Russians have always wanted to be known as Europeans.
Actually, *there are a lot of black people in Canada.* You, as a Vancouverite, just wouldn't know that because they're all back east, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area but in other cities as well. BUT, yes, I did see your caveat that says this video mostly applies to Vancouver.
Another thing, *we do use our military to fight wars (it's a pacifist lover's myth that we don't). It's in the name...that's what a "military" is for...*
One last thing...*do you guys do your homework before you create your videos?* *There was slavery, segregation, and the KKK in Canada.* As a matter of fact, you can't legislate people not liking each other based on race -- it doesn't matter what the _Canadian Charter of Rights_ says (though, JUST LIKE in the USA, legally you can *not* _institutionally_ discriminate based on race. And I LOVE how you guys use the *past* (i.e. slavery and segregation) to proclaim what's happening, and the attitudes, in the *present* (i.e. saying the USA is "racist"...whatever that means)....that's called an anachronism. *Under that criteria, if the USA IS (present tense) racist, then so is Canada...*
Other than that, it was a very well done and funny video.
Yeah I was reading about how USA had really really bad borderline-genocide racism against Chinese-Americans and Japanese-Americans, but then I saw that even Canada participated in things like sending Japanese to internment camps and the same American policy that forbade any Chinese immigration (for fear that Asians were taking over the white population) in the 1900s. Though at least Canada compensated and apologized for those things...
The average Canadian has a high level of animosity and racism towards Natives, ongoing. I am always shocked at the venom and blatent hatred demonstrated by MOST Canadians. We aren't so great.
Miss Melle ok...but it is a fact...there are whole neighbourhoods in China that are vacant because the houses were bought as investment. I believe real estate is the biggest appeal for Asians with money. In Vancouver they are trying a vacant house tax to compensate.
Just about to comment this, glad someone else did. They should have done research. We did end slavery earlier but we had residential schools for a long time
Umm... Chinese Head tax? Did you guys just forget that? I mean its like Grade 11 Canadian History.
+d In certain provinces that is taught in grade 11, not all. also it is most likely not taught in the states.
Cioas Gavin Well umm she is from BC. The province I live in. The same city I live in. So your point may have had merit but not really in this case. Also I wasn't talking about the Americans I wouldn't expect them to know or care about it considering it has not happened in their country.
+d The Chinese head tax was horrible, but it's hardly on the same level as slavery, Jim Crow, or KKK.
Stanley Winford can't forget Donald Trump.
+d We also gave horrible food to chinese immigrants working in the mines and we called it Paté Chinois (Sheppard's pie) and they hated it. But we French Canadians love it hahaha! It's Grrreat!
I was so surprised when he mentioned mongolian
Yeah i was too. There are like 4000 of us here in the US. Not that many compared to other Asians
Sain uu
I was suprised when they mentioned Hmong.
Yep they are turks. Indians, bengalis, Pakistanis, Iranians, and Turks are also Asians.
@@ElMakz many turkic are very similar to Asian (ENGIN ALTAN)
Mongols and turks (not on turKIC) bros forever
Finally, a polite, honest and absolutely entertaining channel that makes me feel good. Love you guys.
This video is hilarious, and I can definitely relate to many points since I am also an asian from Vancouver. There is one thing that really bugs me though.
I know that they're making generalizations, but I find it ill-informed and disrespectful to say that Canadian history is not racist like American history. There has been a shit ton of racism committed against aboriginals (like forcing them into residential schools), and also against the Chinese and Japanese, among other cultures. Just putting that out there!
Do they not know about the Japanese interment camps that occurred in Canada?
+Not A Canadian The same interNment camps that occurred in the U.S. of A? That would be negative 1 to each wouldn't it? Utopia is not out there Mulder.
+Not A Canadian Or the residential schools that we sent our indigenous people too so we can destroy their culture?
They're talking about the 21st century not 1940
The last school closed in 1996. Thats our lifetime bro
If that is so, then they would not have mentioned segregation in the US as that was also an official policy in the 20th century.
speaking french in canada is definitely NOT like speaking spanish in america haha they basically only speak french in quebec
Cassandra L ahlie fam. mandem be cuting from French class
In Ontario most big cities like Ottawa and Toronto are pretty Bilingual as well as in Halifax
Yeah that's not how they meant it
Good video just correction, slavery did exist in Canada; The colony of New France, founded in 1608, was the first major European settlement in what is now Canada. Slavery was an accepted practice in the territory. When New France was conquered by the British in 1759, there were approximately 4,000 enslaved people amongst the 60,000 or so inhabitants of the settlement. The vast majority of them were Indigenous (often called panis) but Black enslaved people also existed as a result of the transatlantic slave trade.
Canada was not an official country then. Thats British North America you’re talking about. Not Canada
A lot of french people were enslaved by Iroquois tribes as well during raids they made in the Saint-Lawrence valley. It was a way for them to integrate new population in a time when they were decimated by small pox. A lot of Mohawks (Iroquois) now are descended by these french colonists hence a lot of them have french surname. The same applied to slaves in New France, they would be integrated in a family, they would be set free after some time and they would eventually marry into the community. I am not condoning slavery in any way. Slavery is disgusting. But slavery practiced by the french or natives was way different to the slavery practiced by the english in North America. It wasn't large scale, it wasn't a permanent status, you wouldn't be a slave all your life and your kids wouldn't be slaves as well.
Overall, I feel growing up Filipino in Canada that I didn't feel segregated due to my race. Although, I've had a lot of confused looks on people guessing my ethnicity (Mexican? Aboroginal?).
#8 - I always felt like "Nammer" and "Honger" were just Vancouver slang. I didn't know it applied to all of Canada.
#1 - Canada does have some history of discrimination against Asian ethnicities in the past. The Komagata Maru incident, the Chinese Head Tax, and the emprisonment of Japanese-Canadian citizens in camps during WWII are examples of this. Generally, Canadians want to be embracing of all cultures, but we're not any less guilty of racism from time to time.
theres alot of misinformation about this. i love making canada look great and all but there are obvious fact that have not been told like the chinese slavery and racism in the west and much more things and there are kkk members here and there last time i heard there was a group in B.C etc
Canada seems to be the best place in all the Americas
+BlackhawkX02 It is, most peaceful country with the lowest rate of crime, every country in "The Americas" South of Canada have very high crime rates. (Heck even Canada's are in some areas but they would still be quite low compared to American Standards). Canada may not be the safest country in the world to live in (as some countries in Europe/ Asia have Canada beat). But when it comes to countries in The Continental Americas Canada is the safest. "The Americas" has the world's Highest Intentional Homicides Rates. It's so bad that the U.S. is considered one of the "good countries." However for a developed nation they bring down the ratings considerably. & Canadian Crime is spilled over & worse because of the Americans & their Arms Deals & cross border contraband.
+Radeo Oh god ughhhh this is a bad idea on my note... .-.
I'm so thankful that I wasn't born in America because I'm a Muslim. Canada is so accepting of other ethnicities and religions, there are a few times that I've been treated differently because of my religion but there were always people who stood by my side. God bless everyone
Canada never had to deal with poverty, colonialism, and slavery like The DR, Jamaica, Parts of the US, Haiti, Brazil and etc.
+OSHO oh yea?visit a first nation reservation you idiot
Boy, I've always taken what I had for granted as an Asian teen in a Canadian middle school full of people from other countries.
A CBC survey also concluded that canadians are more close minded and less accepting of multiculturalism compared to people in US
@@chrisa4394 America also uses race based affirmative action to screw Asians over. You don't see this bullshit in Canada.
but but but.... IM JAPANESE-CANADIAN, there is a lot of japanese people in canada, this vid is a lie
;-; omg, don't worry, :3 If anything, there are more Japanese in Canada, particularly Saskatchewan, than there are Jewish people ;-; I'm Israeli and i know no one who speaks my language
oh :(
And korean
+sakaguchi samurai Im sure its because of the area shes in. Vancouver has lots of koreans and chinese at least thats what I see. I may be wrong since I don't go up to every asian in Vancouver and ask them where they are from XD
Vancouver has a lot of Indians (mostly Sikh immigrants from my experience) and Japanese!
4:49 - yes there was, underground railroad
4:59 - read up on Africville, Nova Scotia and Dresden, Ontario
4:53 - Stephen Harper!! Lol
Coming from an "African-Canadian".
Canada is ofcourse less "racist", but only overtly, it's still racist but moreso covertly.
And It's just major cities like Tdot, MTL and VanCity that are multicultural, other parts farther upnorth and in other provinces are VERY racist!
Like, I would never think of going to newfoundland!
You're right about the racism - it's not really directed towards African-Canadians - it's the First Nations people that have really suffered
I was going to comment about the railroads. My ancestors had to pay a head tax to get into Canada and were essentially "slaves" for all intents and purposes. Thanks for being so knowledgable and sharing this!
***** Also there are/were KKK in Canada but I think some of them are undercover. They are located in Georgetown
Gordon Jackson Yes the natives here really suffered. However it seems like they are still suffering though. Some people act as if they are no longer relevant or existent in this country.
***** I live in northern alberta and it isn't very racist...
The one on war bothered me. Average American doesn't want war. But those in Congress or who have a financial stake in war bonds and technology, they want the war cycle to continue. Most Americans just want a job. Still appreciated the video tho.
I truly hope most Americans think like you do. From our perspective in Canada, you guys are making yourself out to be a bunch of bloodthirsty war-mongerers. Calling people 'American' in Canada is seen as an insult. I remember back in the 90's, people wouldn't mind. Nowadays, nobody wants to be called an American.
No, it has nothing to do with age.
***** Most Americans under the age 35 see every war that the U.S. has been in in the last 40 years as illegitimate and illegal under the laws of our land. So what are you referring to, I'm curious?
*****
I'll be honest; I think it does. The more racist people I've met were in their 50's and 60's. People around my age group (late teens to early 20's) are also racist but only to offend people. They don't truly believe blacks/asians are a different race from us.
***** His not alone, I'm American and dont like that we are at war.
Thanks for the sharing. I was pretty amazed with the presentation. At least we can the clearer perspective about Asian descendants in Canada & US
America is like the rebellious teenager and Europe is the parents
YKLB Fish lol
nah America is Europe's parent because we are stronger and better oh and richer
YKLB Fish Exactly the opposite. Those europeans NEED the American parenting, otherwise they could have started another world war.
XQZ-Me Buds Just because you're taller and richer then your daddy doesn't mean you have to disrespect them like that and doesn't make it any less obvious that you are a rebellious preteen lol
C. Morgan Free Exactly the opposite, sir. I am an East Asian. In fact, we are relatively smaller and poorer than you Europeans. Maybe if the EU's stupidity wasn't this high, the world would have been a much better place. Thank god, there are Americans who are willing to keep those EU warmongering folks in check.
French is a lot more important in Canada than Spanish is in the USA.
Spanish is only 13% of the US population and you can go anywhere in America and speak English to people and they understand. They're also only recently accounted for this high of the population, historically Spanish is insignificant even going back a couple decades.
French is 21% of Canada, and used to account for a lot more, recent immigrants to English Canada outweigh those to French Canada which is why it's shrinking. Canada's history has been a pretty even split between French and English, making it no way comparable to Spanish in the U.S. You can also go to parts of Canada where everything is in French, again there are no parts of the US that are strictly Spanish.
Spanish is a recent phenomena in the USA. French has always been a part of Canada's identity, America's historical figures aren't Spanish, Canada's historical figures are French
That girl is from BC so she doesn't realize how huge French is in this country, 1/4 people I know have French heritage. The west always underplays it.
Just like how you are underplaying the influence of Hispanic language and culture in parts of the US like New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, and Southern Colorado where Hispanic populations and regional dialects have existed for centuries. It’s not as strong as French in Canada but you are incorrect in saying Spanish is a recent import to the US.
I was so happy when he said Cambodians. Cause most people when they talk or think about Asians the think Vietnamese Chinese Japanese. Some people don't even know what Cambodia is.
I know right? That happens to me too
bruh, look at this dude, no segregation? Yall just finna forget the trans-Canada railroad?
As a white Canadian, I personally have never even heard of nammers, buckies, nor hongers. I don't use any racial slurs. We do have Asian gangs that don't dress "gangster", but most people think of Asians as being smart, becoming doctors, with strict parents. There are so many Filipino's here in Alberta!!! I know more Tagalog than I know french. I listened to American rappers more than Canadian rappers. I've never really liked Drake. Asians are definitely considered part of the cooler crowd. We practically had "slaves" they were even Asian, they were technically paid but they got paid half of what a white person made and had poor living conditions. 700 Chinese men died building the railway, works out to be about two died for every mile they built. Canada has publicly talked about how wrong they were for doing that and has apologized for their actions. Better late than never I guess. KKK in Canada are called skinheads, there is racism but I feel like its to a lesser extent and definitely not towards West Asia, more towards Natives and Muslims. I think the racist Canadians just aren't as vocal about it because there are so many people that will stand up for other races. We have way more people who hate racism than there are people whom are racist.
This is correct. However, it has been discussed that racism in Canada is a "quiet racism", where people DO have their thoughts, but don't make a point of it because they would rather not be considered racist in a community that promotes multiculturalism. In America, it can be considered a more "direct racism", where people are unafraid to say their thoughts. In a way, American racism is less stiffling because at least you won't be questioning whether your Middle-eastern friend actually likes you or is secretly hoping to scam you out of your money.
I'm shocked, in Vancouver everybody knows these terms
No, you wouldn't have heard it. It's a term that circulates only among those Asian-Canadians, because they feel the "discrimination" that all Asians are the same. So within their own Asians-only societal group, they've created their own inside jokes.
A CBC survey also concluded that canadians are more close minded and less accepting of multiculturalism compared to people in US
@@chrisa4394 Oh my comment was from 7 years ago. Lol! Things have changed for sure!!! There is way more than there used to be. However, I do think that a big part of that has been the uprise of blatant racism on social media in the states. It has given some Canadians that push to not hold back their bigotry. It is really sad.
You guys should have brought up America's Best Dance Crew! lol so many Asian-American hip hop dancers...
Jabawockeez, Kaba Modern, Quest Crew, Poreotics, the list goes on...
Where my Canadian Asians at 🙋🏻
Hopefully going back to China.
RedPillMale you are flat out rude!! Canada is a loving country if you want to be rude go to America and talk to trump so you will get what you deserve rudeness right back to that face of yours!!!💔
@@redpillmale6518 lol they treat us as foreign rubbish in Asia yet have the audacity to be here as equal.
moocowlaa ayeee sis im here! East Asian (Indian)
Thank You For Shopping At Giant I don’t know tbh, I just know I’m Asian lol
Yep there was slavery and segregation, we just don't talk about it😂
I've never heard of Nammers or Hongers and I used to live in Vancouver...
I live in Vanc, but never heard either
we still say fobs LOL
RedRustySpoons Obviously lol
Fernaldi Jonatan i heard of hongers but not nammers. maybe it's a younger generation thing (assumption as i know nothing of the older generation, as i consider myself in the 'younger' category...)
I'm from the US and I heard Nammers xD
I hate it so much when an American person asks me if I speak Canadian... U.U
Just don't stoop to their level,they are to stupid to understand
I hate it so much wen ppl in general asks me if i speak chinese 😓😓
Agreed! :P I say yes then I say Inukshuk lol
Alma Yena hahaha I can't help but notice ur Taehyung profile pic xD
applegirljr LOL obviously.
I live in Minnesota and I'm Korean.. I would gladly walk from my town north to get to Canada if all of this is mostly true.
they got the wrong info on not being in Wars ,, Canada played a very large role in Korea , in fact a battle called the Kapyon Valley in which the Canadians were in, was known as the turning point to the War, Afghanistan Canada had the 3rd biggest combat role over 44 thousand Canadians served during that conflict ,, THe 1st Gulf war Canada was involved,,, and now Iraq .,, Also Vancouver has a large Korean population .not just Chinese and Filipinos .,,
Oh, I know that part. Honestly would you think a Korean wouldn't know who participated in their own war. I'm referring to the the tolerant part. Even though i live around countless examples of 'Minnesota Nice' around me I've always had been subjected to a little racism, sometimes intentional sometimes not. Canada also seems interesting to me because the culture seems to be reflected highly in Minnesota especially the part I live in.
Jon Marlow Yeah I would say there's less racism. The high-school im going to is easy 30% Asians and around 5% Koreans. Im yet to speak to a person that's ready to say they have a problem with Asians. Vancouver has a huge Asian population too.
HeavyMecha alberta ain't cheap either. Oil boom droves everything up.
Jon Marlow
I tend to think of Minnesota as "the state of America that could pretty much be the 11th province of Canada". I don't know why. I doubt we're planning an invasion ^_^
0:59 хэхэ iam mongolian bro... why are we still characterized as mountain men lmaoo
Looks like you guys got the wrong Asian Canadian guru. But then again I'm from Toronto and my opinion is so opposite from her. Cause we don't call those type of girls that are not from North of Vietnam, "Nammers" only if they are really from Vietnam, some of us do, or even call them "Bucky" if their specifically from the north side. So if their not Vietnamese we really don't call them that. So it's not just vietnamese girls we call "Nammers" it's anyone else in general that's Vietnamese. And our country is more Multicultural than America. Especially Toronto. We have every type of Asian here. So when you said that there's Vietnamese and Chinese in the bigger cities, I want to correct you there's an equal of Middle eastern, south eastern, Cambodians and Philiponos, Thai, Korean, but for Thai and Korean is not as much Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodians.
THANK YOU. Toronto slang is mad different. Especially in toronto, many asians here grew up with a little Caribbean influence lol (well the ones I grew up with anyway). She speaks for the west coast. Toronto is a different entity entirely.
Toronto is closer to American style and culture... Vancouver is... different....
In Vancouver, swagged-out/ratchet Vietnamese are known as "Nammers"
It's also a pretty common term here, too.
Alex Aisaican
in toronto we just called em fobs
Alex Aisaican Not once in Vancouver have I heard the term "Nammers"
Who else is from Vancouver?
CaM4L Gaming ME!!!
Me
Im from Montreal
CaM4L Gaming I live in North Vancouver:)
West Side!
"No one thinks of Canada"
Hahahahaha, why is this true.
Hetalia: Who's Canada?
I think of it. I don't want to visit america, I want to visit canada. wait... does that make me 'no one'?
Steph Monk But when someone talks of North America, they normally say "America"
Jennifer Liu yeah I know, but almost everyone I've met doesn't understand that, so I just treat it as the US to simplify it for them... does that just confuse people more?
Jennifer Liu in the English speaking world, we say America to refer to the united states. North and South America are two different continents.
i dont think Canadians want to be known as Americans.
in Canada mainly Indian, Chinese, and Filipino.
in United States there are Japanese, Cambodian, Thai, Laotian, Mien, Hmong, Burmese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Singaporean, and even Mongolian.
Canada IS better than America, i was born in Ontario and raised in Boston, but I visit Canada every summer. I am in Canada right now and i can honestly say Canada is much better to be raised in. From the people being nicer, to an $11 minimum wage, i think Canada is a lot better.
It's only 11$ in certain provinces, it's 10 where I'm from
I live in America and in public most of the people seem pretty nice, I've had a lot of awesome teachers too. There was a lady who paid for my sisters coffee(bill that didn't have enough change) and a guy who returned cash that fell out of my mom's purse(my mom wasn't paying attention so he could've kept it).What's your version of "nice"?
No country is better than another.
Seattle has a minimum wage of 15$ an hour. So, Seattle is better than the whole country of Canada.
Wow that was easy.
Well said
Lmaooooo when she dropped the Cantonese!
It would be pretty interesting to be born/raised, or at least spend some time in, a country that doesn't ingrain racism into your psyche from the minute you're born. Like imagine living in a country where race isn't that big of a fucking deal... wow! Generally I heard Canada is pretty cool, so ima have to check it out.
Fung Bros videos have been super entertaining and interesting lately (more so than usual, but the old ones are tight too!) Keep it up guys!
#3 someone is a tad ignorant. Canada was fighting the Japanese when they were in Hong Kong defending it in WWII, remember HK was part of the British Empire at the time. Canada was also fighting in the Korean War.
And another point. You'll find many Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians in Québec. Mostly descendants of boat people that were refugees here. The language played a big part, of course. But also, Québec politicians at the time put a lot of pressure on the federal gvt to give them shelter. :)
Canada represent!!! Also I found theres a lot of Vietnamese in Quebec lol MTL :P also there was like 6 Viet guys in my high school in Ottawa :P but yeah we love our Asians here. :)
I think Ottawa is mainly Europeans. When I went to visit Ottawa last month, there was barely any Asians... besides the tourists LOL.
^im from Ottawa and it don't think your statement is entirely true at all :/
Nicole Yiu was just visiting :/ I wrote what I saw , so of course I would be wrong
There are a lot of Europeans in Ottawa but there are still a lot of Asians, waay more downtown :p and in Chinatown of course :)
i just realized that i never learned anything about Canadian history in high school and college
I was expecting a picture of Kris(EXO) or Henry(SUJU)...anyone other kpop fans thought so too?
Meeeeeee. ^~^
Me too!!! I was looking for Kris, Henry, G.NA, and Tablo. But I guess they are not in to K-Pop like that.
Yehet
I was hoping for kris (Exo) and henry (SUJU), too :P
Chicken is not my style
Canada is as racists as the U.S. This whole "Canada is better" is an opinion at best. This was said by my friend from the First Nations. BTW, America outranks Canada in every objective measurable index: HDI and standard of life index.
I'm not saying america is better, I'm saying America is better IMO. To each his own.
Last I heard, Canada has a higher medium household income. The US may have a higher average income but that's because of all those CEOs that you guys love. Anytime I see list of best countries to live, even though not number 1 we still outrank the US, in terms of standard of life, healthcare, education etc.
Sure, America does outrank Canada in numbers when it comes to obesity, diabetes, gun related deaths, wealth inequality.
I'm not saying america is worse, I'm saying America is worse IMO. But i better not talk too much shit or the NSA will start keeping records on me.
canada is useless honeslty try to live without a day with american stuff
So because grammar was not invented by Americans you refuse to use it.
Where did you get that I said America is useless? Is this some sort of inner self-image projection?
All I did was try to have a tongue in cheek discussion with Andrews, and here you come in with your Fox-like comments.
I think you're talking about Best *Cities to live in. Yes, Vancouver and Toronto always make the list, they top it even, but *Countries as a whole, give me one measurable objective index where Canada outranks the US. World bank, The Economist, Forbes, even the CIA factbook lists the US higher than Canada.
As for higher median household income, US is higher than Canada. Again, this information is readily available from reliable sources. I bet you read this from a NYT article? I remember reading one similar to this months ago.
Lastly, you're really not one to talk about ignorant, sweeping, "Fox-like" comments. Cheers.
Archie Andrews im democrat but ok?
So much Love to Canada from Kenya :)
Vancouver = Singapore 2.0
Jonathan Y Wu lol Markham, Ontario is like Singapore 2.0
Kuldeep Sharma Never been there before. The only 2 places in Ontario I've been are Toronto and maybe Mississauga.
Jonathan Y Wu come to markham next time lol! its diverse just like singapore - you got your asians, tamils, and everything in between
Kuldeep Sharma k then
***** well, you know singapore is east meets west, so...
of course shes from Vancouver..."hongcouver"
Now Cantonese is outnumbered by Mandarin in Vancouver and Richmond
Megan or saicouver
Richmond *
It's true. Even the suburbs.
And Alberta should be called Reichberta with all the White folks there. As an American who recently visited BC, Chinese Canadians and Indian Canadians happened to be the friendliest of Canadians I encountered. Canada is a beautiful country.
Canada seems safer than America .....
yes
its next to impossible to get.. or find, a gun here.. x) only way is to have a serious licence for it. Even then.. there's like no reason to have one in the first place.. this whole 'need it for self defence' thing is pointless here. In the last 10 years ive heard of.. i think like 2 shootings in canada.. and these are like.. small shootings..
***** yeah thats very true, so the likelihood of coming across someone who owns one, is.. low x)
Master Penquin or paintball :3
It is
"Growing up in America, a lot of Asian guys have a phase where they want to act Black" - yes and the Fung Bros, never outgrew that phase. 🤣
I must admit that your Ghetto-Black shtick is not cool.
Please stop trying to be something you aren't, etc.
Thank you!!
Oh, the KKK are definitely in Canada. They just might not be as loud about it. And I disagree about the lack of diversity in the Asian Canadian community, at least in Vancouver. Yeah, lots of Chinese, but we've got Koreans, Japanese, etc too.
We definitely have Mongolians. Because we keep blaming them whenever a wall is busted.
Oh, and outside of Quebec, you're not really going find French used all that much, not nearly to the level that you'd hear Spanish in California.
***** now, thats funny 1.
maybe you'd hear Spanish more in cali, but French is one of our official languages. you see it everywhere and hear it on all of the phone recordings in major companies and government. AND we have to learn French until grade 9. mandatory. dunno about Vancouver, I'm from TO.
***** Totally explains why I'm so hairy, can grow a full beard in a day, and always want my meat grilled on a shield for some reason.
uh... This video isn't quite right on two things.
1. The KKK has a history with Saskatchewan, Canada. It was the first place to enter Canada, and the last place to leave. Saskatchewan is like the Virginia of Canada.
2. Canadian gangster rappers don't exist because gangs are a uniquely American and Mexican problem, hence why Canada as a country has more guns than the US by guns to population ratio, but doesn't have a gun problem. Gang's and gang gun violence aren't nationwide social problems in Canada. They only really affect the 3 major cities due to population density..
Sorry - Linda D, that's not 100% true on all.
FungBros, you should've asked an Asian that lived in both Vancouver and Toronto. So... Being represented by her, is ... insulting.
Lol. Videos like this only perpetuate negative stereotypes for us North American Asians. Sigh.
And they didn't even fact check some of the "facts." Just making dumb claims!
But they admitted that they made it up at the end of the video..
Kitune Sono Should have asked Peter Chao and Russel Peters! lol
kitune
as if you know better
If you think that is 100%
true then give us proof
your the one that's INSULTING
"watchu know aboot Drake eh?!" Hilarious.
4:54 Is it super nerdy that I have that Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms taped on my bedroom wall? lol. I put it there to celebrate becoming a Canadian citizen in 2006.
I got pretty excited to see this Asian-Canadian representation from the Fung Bros :) A clarification though... Canada's history is not as accepting and multicultural as you had mentioned. Canada did in fact have an official Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred anyone of Chinese ancestry from entering the country. In fact, it wasn't until 1947 that Chinese Canadians were given the right to vote, despite migrating to Canada as early as any other non-Aboriginal settler. What's more, Canada has had an overt history of White Supremacy. The phrase "White Canada forever!" was it's rally cry. It is pretty difficult to learn this history unless you take specific Asian Canadian Studies classes in university, because this part of Canada's history has largely been ignored and swept under the rug. If you do a search on google scholar though, you'll probably find some comprehensive articles and books that speak on the subject.
Thank for that. Asians are to divided, even among our own ethnics n nationality, mainland versus oversea taiwan, hongkong, south n north Vietnamese n koreans, japanese etc.. all stem from cold war mentality learned from western medias, our own ignorant greedy ego selfish leaders keep perpetuate n vicious cycle of hate due misunderstanding that people must belong to this n that group n gang n party etc... so dumb, ignorant as hell, so easy get let others control, dominate n bully us, espescially oversea in west or newlands, Australia n America continents that even our leaders think its perfectly OK westerners control these newlands n have every right to live there not asians unless be 2nd class citizens as normal, and our motherlands leaders abandon their oversea country men struggle to survive in hostile society, system n people and only remember us when they are in troubles. Please spread these messages to all asians. This land is your land, this land is my land, God make land for all people, not just whites, blacks, whatever nor whoever. Asian population in newlands don't reflects asians in asia at all, so thats most unfair racist system in hidden ways, espescially asians in West contributing lot more but get lot less taxes, money, fund, subsidy, bailouts, grants, great jobs in governments n coporations, nice infrastructure, schools, roads, libraries, rights n privileges. Anyway, it cost lot to be racist. Treating others equal to get lot more, not less in return. Chase immigrants out, only chase your American dream out. Remember that.
I'd move to Canada if Trump were the President
+Jessica Choi Same
+Jessica Choi lol i dont like trump either, but i doubt none of the people who say this will actually move.
+R. K. Vis Regardless who ever becomes president. In the end, they are only puppets following orders. World bank owners control the result of the country and its government.
*****
umm... ok, cool story
+Jessica Choi we don't want you here.
Proud Asian Canadian here
man...this video makes me want to move to Canada
Niki Wonoto come bro....we would welcome the hell outta you
Nah man, stay here in America. Canada is way too socialist
Yup...socialism is our American repellent...we like to keep our country nice ;P
u can keep ur high taxes and limited rights
Me either lol
When you said Mienh & Hmong I was like whoa. He knows about us? Lol that's why I'm subscribed to ya! Thumbs up!
ShesBeyondBeauty Most people who have seen Gran Torino now know about Hmong.
Yoo Suk Dong LOL that's what I was thinking
Not that small, plz do your research. We don't need to have a country to be big. We are all over the world. Mainly in USA though.
#3 is completly wrong canada was in ww2 waaaay before MURICA joined
Demon Wolf Canada was in WW2 before American joined, but Canada wasn't involved as much in the conflict with Asia during the World War.
animefangirlxx true
***** wait wtf is happening i did not know that there was a WAR under my comment XD
Rhialisse Xavorin canada was in ww1 because they were part of the british empire, so they had fight. they joined ww2 because the parliament voted for it
Demon Wolf It said that Canada doesn't START wars, but if there is a crisis in another country that can't defend itself, OR Britain gets involved, Canada will send troops to that place. Another part of it is that some of the times that Canada sends troops, they act as peacekeepers, teaching the country to defend itself.
"Canada! Freedom! And maple leaves!" - epic
I have never heard a Canadian say aboot, instead of about. That sounds Stupid.
Oh gee. You have been to every province, and every city in the country and know every single dialect in Canada?
Karen McCaig I have and I'm not even from Canada...
Karen McCaig they do
Most Canadians don't actually say "aboot" but I think it sounds like "aboot" to Americans because we enunciate the "ou" sound less. At least that's what I've gathered from Americans I've spoken to in the past haha.
Lady Bug iTs jUst A JokE!
this is probably the first video I've seen where Indians and other south Asians are called "asian"
Well they're from Asia..
+scuba yeah I know but not many other videos seem to think so 😂
+scuba So are Russians...
+Aman Sharma in canada they're just asian
DTF GILF really, I live in Canada and I think it would be weird for someone to call me asian..
I think they normally call us south asians here
No one says Aboot
Yes they do. I worked in Toronto for 3 months speaking with Ontario customers daily. People do say Aboot instead of About.
We don’t say aboot and most Canadians don’t say “eh” Americans just think we do lol
We DONT say aboot. Some people do say eh tho
We say a-boat in Alberta
Gavin McCormick never heard anyone say aboat in Alberta
I’m gonna move to Canada after this video