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ext_872 ([identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bossymarmalade 2009-01-15 07:18 pm (UTC)

Our country. :/

D'OH, OF COURSE, fail for me! Sorry about that, bb; that was a stupid mistake.

And yes, exactly, to your statement about the politeness being a code for everything being sweet as long as certain people know their place. In the documentary a black lady talks about how in the States, there were actual signs and laws telling PoC where they couldn't go and what they weren't allowed to buy; in Canada, there was none of that, but the shopkeepers would find some polite excuse to not let them in/let them purchase things.

I am realizing more and more every day how different Canadian racism is from American, and how hard it is to uncover and critique when it's so slippery a thing.

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