chingus only · 11d
my bff was born in canada (pickering to be exact) and her parents are from greece and she said there’s a decent amount of greeks in canada specifically ontario so when she lived there her and her culture were obviously welcomed and when she moved here to our city which actually has the biggest greek diaspora in the us she was still looked at weird for speaking greek by non-greeks 😭 so you’re right in canada you’re embraced here you’re pushed away unless someone is part of your culture too
the europeans here are 1st/2nd gen immigrants so they have accents or they were born here and fluent. a big difference is we identify by ethnicity due to more recent immigration while americans identify by race/nationality (for obvious reasons). we have a lot of faults but canadians embrace the melting pot and they're proud to be canadian. you can have both
