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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pocotrader who wrote (20073)	11/10/2019 3:57:45 AM
From: Sun Tzu	3 Recommendations Recommended By 3bar Clark Kent pocotrader Respond to of 37383

The key in what you said is that your personal interactions led the way to your change of attitude. And a lot of research proves that when people live together, racism and prejudice disappear. When you look at the most racist parts of the US (and really the world) they are places where there is hardly any chance of close interaction between the people. Which always makes me wonder if I should laugh or cry about it. Montana trembles in fear and debates arrival of less than a tenth of percentage of its population, but the same thing would have no effect in NYC. It is that interaction that brings the people closer and they begin to realize that their differences are literally skin deep. And the transformation is bidirectional. I remember the time just before China was to take over HK. A lot of Hong Kongese moved to BC and there was a backlash about them...and not just in BC, but in the rest of Canada too. Much of it took the shape of they are not like us and they are changing the character of the city. As if there is so great about the existing population that they could not benefit from seeing others. Or that the people who were coming in were made of stone and would never change. Fast forward a few years and I went to the Pacifics for an extended trip. I wanted to take ice wine to a friend of mine, but I missed buying it in Canada. So in New Zealand I tried to get a bottle - no luck (and this was a relatively big shop). In Singapore, not a chance. Korea, ditto. Then I was in HK and I was passing by a very small wine shop. On a whim, I went in and asked if they had ice wine - the answer, "yes, you will find it in our Canadian wine section" Boy was I surprised. There is a Canadian section in a small shop?! And it wasn't just about the wine. You could see Canadian influence all of Hong Kong. There were President Choice branded goods everywhere. There was a "Sam the Record Man" shop, long after the original store in downtown Toronto had shut down. When people have an opportunity to closely interact, they will naturally take the best from each other and become closer. They also find out that the for the most part (not always) they "bad" parts of the other guys are more a matter of personal preferences and not something that affects them personally. So it's an overall net win for everyone.