I AM Canadian EH!!!

[giaebonyprincess]

Today I was at the gym, but I stopped at the fitness desk to grab a band-aid for my finger. I asked the fitness staff a white good looking (hot) male for one and observed his very strong accent. I asked him where he was from, he said South Africa, then he asked me where I was from. I said to him with a look, "I don't have a accent".

Why is it that SOME people assume that if your not fair skin (WHITE) that you are from a different country??

What are your thoughts, or are you one to assume or has this happened to you??

I AM CANADIAN!!

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EH!!​

 

[vancouverman]

I'm the guy with the accent ..... and I was told a few times.... it is a sexy one.
Am I Canadian.....? Yeh... for many years now.

Ava.... nice story :hug:

Happy Canada Day

 

[Ray]

If the guy was an immigrant, he may have just assumed most people he meets are as well. This is a land if immigrants, after all.

 

[giaebonyprincess]

If the guy was an immigrant, he may have just assumed most people he meets are as well. This is a land if immigrants, after all.

Which is true!!

 

[McDiver]

Asking where you are from, doesn't necessary mean that you need to be from a different country. You could be from Toronto, Calgary etc.

 

[golferjohn]

"I don't have a accent".

'sore-ee' instead of sorry, mum instead of mom, ah-boot instead of about...need I go on?

 

[johnsmit]

Yah
Your story represents the true nature of Canada.
Everyone here that is not first nations has come from some where else through them or their relatives imagrating here in the last 150 yrs when talking about the west or the last 400yrs when talking about eastern canada.

In your case you as a black women were talking to a white south African who allso comes from Imagents to South Africa with it cosepts of racism . To Canada which has become this melting pot of the world and we'll comes everyone .
I am third generation Canadian on my mother's side but my father imagrating here in 1951 from Germany. I know what it is to be a son of an imagrent and I know what means to be Canadian and that we can say where our family came from. But that we are all Canadian.

It takes new Canadian a little longer to realize that because they see things here and mix with other races that they would not see and do in their own country..
This is canada and that what makes it unique.
Never for get that even if you are born here like me.

I suspect you might be dating that guy one day


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[giaebonyprincess]

Yah
Your story represents the true nature of Canada.
Everyone here that is not first nations has come from some where else through them or their relatives imagrating here in the last 150 yrs when talking about the west or the last 400yrs when talking about eastern canada.

In your case you as a black women were talking to a white south African who allso comes from Imagents to South Africa with it cosepts of racism . To Canada which has become this melting pot of the world and we'll comes everyone .
I am third generation Canadian on my mother's side but my father imagrating here in 1951 from Germany. I know what it is to be a son of an imagrent and I know what means to be Canadian and that we can say where our family came from. But that we are all Canadian.

It takes new Canadian a little longer to realize that because they see things here and mix with other races that they would not see and do in their own country..
This is canada and that what makes it unique.
Never for get that even if you are born here like me.

I suspect you might be dating that guy one day .

Wow......your words are very impressive.

I agree with you, we are a very unique country but no he is not my type. I just like to admire all different types of people.

Gia

 

[MissingOne]

Gia, I don't know about white guys from South Africa, but if you meet an old white Canadian guy who seems surprised find that you, too, are "from here", maybe you can cut him a bit of slack.

I grew up in North Vancouver in the fifties and sixties. It was pretty darn lily white. There were a few Asians around, and lots of aboriginal people on the reserves, but I only encountered one black kid before I finished high school. He was a transplant from the US.

During the seven years I spent at university, there were of course a few black people around, but I only ever had one black classmate. He was from Nigeria.

In a forty-year working career in Western Canada, I only encountered one black person in my industry. He was another transplant from the US.

In a social context, there was one black guy in my circle for while. He was an Englishman.

I now live in a rural area of BC of about 25,000 inhabitants. Of those 25,000, my guess is that at most a dozen are black. I can think of only about four offhand. The only one of those whom I know personally was born and raised in the US.

The place where I am most likely to rub shoulders with people of many different races is when I'm riding public transit in Vancouver. And Gia, if I were to see you on a bus in the city, I confess I would most likely wonder where you were from.

I'm sure you are as Canadian as I am. I'm first generation Canadian, so it's entirely possible that your roots in Canada go back farther than mine. But, if we were to meet, you would be the first black Canadian that I have ever met who did not start life in another country.

 

[giaebonyprincess]

Gia, I'm sure you are as Canadian as I am. I'm first generation Canadian, so it's entirely possible that your roots in Canada go back farther than mine. But, if we were to meet, you would be the first black Canadian that I have ever met who did not start life in another country.

To me that's very surprising and I'm sure your not the only one. Thanks for your input. Its nice to read other peoples views.

 

[sybian]

I'm perfectly capable of having sex in a canoe .......with another person as long as she likes hockey.
I can warm up lube before sex with a Coleman stove and not burn my fingers.
I choose my bedmate for the winter using body mass ratio .....and how cold the Farmers Almanac says it's supposed to be.
I've used a hockey stick as a sex toy........and found it worked better with a taped handle, but needed a gentler approach.
Ive actually seen a moose, and didn't mistake it for domestic livestock that was drowning in a lake.
I've seen the Rockies and crossed the great divide on horseback........and didn't put my trip on Facebook or YouTube.
If I wanted a tattoo I'd seriously consider a ring of maple leaves around my bicep.
I've actually thanked a bank machine out loud ...after it spat out my money

I'm red blooded Canadian.....born n bred.

 

[JonnyBoi]

Canadian born "black" people are very common in Toronto and area actually. Same for Canadian born Indians

.. Go visit Montreal. There are legit black neighbourhoods there. LOL.
Nice people, I just can't speak French ...Fun peeps though, I got a few friends that grew up in Montreal. Also, they're usually very pretty..

 

[uncleg]

Today I was at the gym, but I stopped at the fitness desk to grab a band-aid for my finger. I asked the fitness staff a white good looking (hot) male for one and observed his very strong accent. I asked him where he was from, he said South Africa, then he asked me where I was from. I said to him with a look, "I don't have a accent".

Why is it that SOME people assume that if your not fair skin (WHITE) that you are from a different country??

What are your thoughts, or are you one to assume or has this happened to you??

I AM CANADIAN!!

​

EH!!​

Consider that maybe to him you did......when is the last time you talked to a Newfie, particularly somebody from the outposts. So help me I was dealing with one a while back, couldn't understand more 1 in 3 words he said...... Had a guy from Glasgow on the same crew...same with him..understood maybe 1 in 3 yet they were both speaking the Queen's English. Those two together sounded like a dog fight yet they had no problem understanding each other. On the other hand, you asked first.....you provided the opening to carry on the conversation and he would have had to been dead to not try to take advantage of that...

 

[giaebonyprincess]

On the other hand, you asked first.....you provided the opening to carry on the conversation and he would have had to been dead to not try to take advantage of that...

That's true.

 

[JonnyBoi]

I think Toronto has somewhere near 500,000 in the community though that community includes African's through to those from the Caribbean. If you're into the culture, they have this great radio station called G98.7. I'm not sure of they include the Guyanese community, etc in there.

Off topic edit: I notice Millennial's don't use "eh" as much as the older generation.

I feel that GTA has black peoples everywhere; but I don't think they got a predominately black neighbourhoods like parts of L.A./New York/Atlanta.

I feel Montreal does though. But I am definitely more travelled outside of Canada than I do inside of our great nation. Happy Canada Day, eh?

 

[grusse]

I think Toronto has somewhere near 500,000 in the community though that community includes African's through to those from the Caribbean. If you're into the culture, they have this great radio station called G98.7. I'm not sure of they include the Guyanese community, etc in there.

Off topic edit: I notice Millennial's don't use "eh" as much as the older generation.

they don't use "eh" because it gets in the way of (mis)using "like" multiple times, in every sentnece.

 

[JonnyBoi]

I think I just mean to say we really don't have "inner cities" anymore, at least not in the GTA.
Most neighbourhoods you'll still have some White, Indian or even Chinese families living among them - the boroughs of old have all but been replaced with the gentrification and assimilation of the younger generations.

I rather like it. I have a few black friends growing up (born and raised in Canada too); but I've heard that there are many people in Vancouver who has never even seen a black person before... I find that surprisingly. Lol

 

[MissingOne]

Having mentioned earlier in my response to Gia, that I and probably many others who grew up in Vancouver had few encounters with black people, I should say also that there may be historical reasons why there doesn't seem to be an obvious concentration of Canadian black people in the city. Some items from Purvey and Belshaw's "Vancouver Noir" (the "Noir" in the title is not a reference to black people, but to the "Noir" period):

"The city's largest cluster of Afro-Canadians settled on the western edge of Strathcona, between Prior and Union streets. ... It was a lively block with a reputation for extraordinary music, no frills food, illegal liquor, a little pandemonium, sexual (mis)adventure, and sometimes violence."

The description above was from about the 1930's. Later, in the 1940's, the city embarked on a "... rebuilding" campaign, in which "rebuilding" was "... a euphemism for demolishing and replacing with a newly-planned and sanitized community. ... in particular it had Hogan's Alley, the Afro-Canadian neighbourhood on Union Street between Gore and Main - and Chinatown in its sights."

So, Vancouver once did have a small but identifiable community of Canadian black people. I no longer live in the city, but I'm still reasonably familiar with it, and I can't think of an equivalent, identifiably-black area today. Is there one?

By the way, "Vancouver Noir" is an interesting and thought-provoking review of Vancouver's history during the first part of the twentieth century.