quote:

Originally posted by ahlamalek 1 in 5 canadian wasn't born in Canada! in Quebec the 4 biggest linguistic groups are in ordre, French Speaking, English Speaking, Italian speaking, Arabic speaking.

in the GTA, it's something like:

English Speaking,
MAndarin/Cantonese Speaking,
Punjabi/Urdu Speaking,
Filipino (Tagalog) Speaking,
etc..

(this is according to that census report article .. )

___________________
Palm Trees > Pine Trees , Sand > Snow

Montreal is diverse, agreed. But there is no way in fuck more diverse than Toronto.

The GTA is becoming one of the most diverse cities in the world (per capita of course)

___________________
http://www.beatport.com/jonathan-rosa/

Toronto is the only city in the world that has a population that speaks in 189 different languages.

___________________
tech-house
n. an old-school term for crack cocaine.
"Got some tech-house?" "Yeah, I'm your man for tech-house, Grandma."
http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slang.cgi?ref=tech-house

wells i know we've had that debate about TOTA's having multinational flags under their avatars even though the majority of us are Canadian citizens..

i just found this quote from the offshoot link to be rather interesting..
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...l=1043146939920

"What can be said with authority is that people who report homegrown ethnicity tend to be multigenerational Canadians of predominantly British or French ancestral origins. The 2001 census added a new question about the birthplace of parents, and found that 55 per cent of people whose parents were born in Canada also claimed at least partial Canadian ethnicity. By contrast, only four per cent of people with both parents born outside the country reported Canadian.

Other studies of the 1996 census have suggested visible minorities tend not to list their ethnicity as Canadian.

In the words of Bruce Abe [of Japanese ancestry]: "Until I open my mouth and say, 'I am Canadian,' people's first impressions are that you're Asian."

so basically , what i'm wondering if this.. if u consider yourself to be Italian, Polish, Serbian, Chinese, Indian, etc.. how many generations down your line would it take until you think your children's children's children, etc.. consider themselves as "Canadian".. ?

___________________
Palm Trees > Pine Trees , Sand > Snow

no way toronto is more diverse or less diverse than Montreal. Both have the same minorities, in more or less of importance. The greater Montreal area is something like 3.5 Millions of people, lots lots of different people and mentalities and I love it if I remember well, in high school (about 800 students) there was like about 55-60 different languages spoken! you gotta love the diversity

___________________
[/IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/ngycqo.png[/IMG]

wells i know that Montreal is a really ethnically diverse city.. but at the rate of the immigrant influx into TO (compared to that of the rest of Canada), eventually no one here will be able to speak English in like 5 years ..

so for the seperatists of Quebec, they need not worry about losing their French language over English since all the immigrants will uproot English for them !

___________________
Palm Trees > Pine Trees , Sand > Snow

quote:

Originally posted by dEsidEL eventually no one here will be able to speak English in like 5 years ..

You mean, no one here working at McDonalds will speak English in 5 years


English will always the be the language that gets you furthest in life !

quote:

Originally posted by ahlamalek no way toronto is more diverse or less diverse than Montreal. Both have the same minorities, in more or less of importance. The greater Montreal area is something like 3.5 Millions of people, lots lots of different people and mentalities and I love it if I remember well, in high school (about 800 students) there was like about 55-60 different languages spoken! you gotta love the diversity

Your need to compare yourself to Toronto just underlines your insecurities.

___________________
This is what you came for.

I don't want to start another Montreal-Toronto quibble, but let's just accept that they're different; elles ne sont pas pareilles. Pas meme un tout-p'tit peu.

___________________
This is what you came for.

hehe yepps .. no need for a quarel. Here's another interesting article..

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...ol=969483202845

"The census shows that almost all Canada's immigrants in the 1990s — some 94 per cent — settled down in cities.

Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal attracted nearly three-quarters of all immigrants. Toronto became home to 43 per cent of immigrants, while 18 per cent went to Vancouver and 12 per cent to Montreal.

Twenty-four other cities were also listed, including Ottawa-Hull and Calgary with approximately 4 per cent of newcomers each, and Edmonton with 2.5 per cent. Hamilton attracted almost 2 per cent of immigrants.

"If there were any doubts before, clearly this information just confirms that the lion's share of immigrants are going to three centres,'' the immigration official said. "

___________________
Palm Trees > Pine Trees , Sand > Snow

hahahaha... all this mainland talk is hilarious.... i didn't think anyone would actually pipe up and say something about it, hahahaha...

my dad went to china this christmas... they're really cleaning up over there... soon they'll all just be regualar HK fobs, =P.

___________________

quote:

Originally posted by Wurm Your need to compare yourself to Toronto just underlines your insecurities.

dude you must be an e-tard, what insecurity? where did I say montreal is better? Montreal and Toronto are two big cities, very different but also very similar due to a very diverse populace.

___________________
[/IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/ngycqo.png[/IMG]