Re:Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; w...
by josv on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:13PM
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As a Canadian, I hear frequently from Americans that Canada is a homogeneous place. I imagine there are a lot of different ways to measure that, but for what it's worth, per StatsCan Canada has the highest foreign-born population in the G8[1]. Subjectively, Toronto feels amazingly polyglot compared to most large US cities I've spent time in. (Although, as in the US, there's a lot of geographic variation.)
Not to invalidate your point, but that particular assumption always strikes me as dubious.
1. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-0...
Re:Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; w...
by StaticRedux on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:56PM
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I was referring to Iceland/Norway more there.
Those countries have their own problems, even if they aren't the same as in the United States.
Different cultures, different economies, different priorities.
You can't solve a problem by saying "look how awesome this homogenous country with a population the size of a medium sized US city is!".
That argument will always fall flat on it's face. And on deaf ears.
Certainly we can and should learn from other countries. But it's getting really tiring to hear these empty arguments trying to hold some other country up as some kind of wonderous Paradise when it's simply not true.