Interracial relationships in Canada?

Question

Is it true that interracial relationships are more socially accepted in the United States than in Canada?
In Canada, , you have either very hetereogenous cities like Vancouver or Toronto, where people still date and marry within their cultural group, OR mostly homogeneous cities like Saskatoon and Winnipeg where minorities just have a hard time getting a date!
Can Canadians enlighten me on whether I am right or wrong? Do Canadians frown upon interracial dating?

Answer 1

I've lived in Toronto for almost 15 years, and while new emigrants are a little reluctant to date outside their culture, most of us are very open. I've dated people from different cultures and countries and so have my friends. I don't see the problem. I think if anything, Canadians are more accepting of interracial relationships. After all, we didn't just lynch ppl for having them less than 80 years ago, like they did in the American South.

Answer 2

Canadians generally believe that people should be happy. So if having a same-sex or inter-racial relationship makes you happy, most Canadians wouldn't even notice. It's quite common here. I used to have friends in high school that had exclusively interracial relationships -- it's hard to avoid, being that there are so many cultures represented in Canada. We're much more concerned that you are polite to one another, and not overtly making out in public. It's not polite to be slobbering on each other in public, whether an interracial gay couple, or caucasian heteros. Either way, get a room :)

Answer 3

I have lived all over Canada, and I think the only places where interracial relationships MIGHT be frowned upon would be smaller towns that aren't close to major urban centers (I'm counting cities like Saskatoon and Winnipeg as major urban centers - some may not agree with that, but oh well). Most of my acquaintances aren't bothered at all about interracial dating.

I live in the USA now, in a relatively segregated city, but I think it is just due more to cultural comfort zones as opposed to discriminatory attitudes. I have seen many interracial couples. Nobody seems to mind.

Answer 4

i doubt very much that interracial dating/marriage is less common in Canada than the US. You're right that Vancouver & Toronto are more mixed than Saskatoon and Winnipeg, but I think that it has been a non-event for people with different skin colour to hold hands in public for a generation now in at least TO + Van. Canada has literally 95% of the nations on Earth represented in numbers, so a so-called minority person would hardly be much of a minority here ... it's much easier to be Persian, Italian or Japanese in Toronto, than to be a redneck (i think; perhaps non-whites would disagree).

It's also extremely common and accepted to speak other languages in Toronto, and to mix cultural traditions ... i have friends in Toronto who date interacially (Latin + Korean, for example), where neither person was born in Canada.

That said, I've visited the U.S. only a handful of times.

Answer 5

Basically the only place where I've seen that this *may* be frowned upon is in smaller cities, which can sometimes be a bit more hesitant to change. However, you will probably find that Canadians are very accepting of interracial dating, just as we tend to be very tollerant of other cultures.

Answer 6

We are a very multicultural country have you heard. people are allowed to keep their beliefs and still get along, that being, you can date anyone you like, society does not frown on it but as everywhere there are probaly a few individuals that frown on it in their own way, there is no law saying it can or can't be done so noone thinks about it before doing it. We have many cultures living in this country so it's bound to happen

Answer 7

You are wrong, generally speaking. Canada is more eccepting in most places. Howver, interracial dating, like same sex marriage, is rapidly becoming much more accepted in much of the USA. There are parts of the States (mostly blue territory) where attitudes are about the same.

Answer 8

I live in Calgary, and don't notice, so I assume it is common. I have noticed more philipino women w/caucasian men who are quite a bit older than the women (which is what I notice, the race is secondary). Some cultures don't approve of inter-cultural relationships. I can't speak for other places.

Answer 9

I live in Vancouver. Interracial relationships are completely socially acceptable here and are very very common.

Answer 10

yea it's much more excepted here, in the states they have alot of racism or prejudices. Even when i go there it's weird, it seems even though blacks/whites are so close together they dont realy mix at all or they're is bad vibes when they're around eachother from my experience