Black History

[benzozw4]

Because my suburban city is going through a major change of "color" and I hear here and there stuff I don't like from people I wouldn't expect such stupidities, I've decided to talk about Canadian Black History, which of course is closely related to African-American. I'm pretty excited about it, I don't know much, but there is a unit in the

Comments

[raven_feathers]

what percentage of the students at your school are black? what percentage are some other ethnicity? i think of canada, especially quebec, as being very white, but of course that's silly.

[benzozw4]

Yes Qc is very white. Montreal Island is the exception and I can't count how many schools I have substituted where I was clearly the visible minority, though some of them had so many ethnic groups that you couldn't find any majority

[raven_feathers]

i think places that are traditionally majority white have a really hard time transitioning to a more multiethnic population. i bet it would be the same in VT if we had a steady influx of persons of colour. i know in my high school of 1600 students, there was one black kid and five asian (three east asian, two indian). and that was it. i don't know how those kids fared, i know that the two kids who were vietnamese didn't mix with the other students, they were refugees and their english was poor, but the others seemed to integrate seamlessly. i wonder if it was really as seamless as it looked or if they had to work hard to assimilate for their own peace.