Nice to see how our Canadians react…
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Wow, good example of “take one for hte team”… not sure how many people would willingly get assaulted for a social experiment but that was a nice video..
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O Canada 
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what I like about this even more is that it was done in Hamilton…which is not a small town but not a big city center either…so if people there will react this way then the folks in the bigger cities can be expected to display the same sort of behaviour or better.
@kakee needs to see this.
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and hamilton is tough town. and their local paper was writing crap about muslims lately.
Like a lot.
I am so happy, people still use their brains.
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I want to live in Canada. Canada will you adopt me?
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i am glad to see how Canadians stood up against this bully in favor of a fellow Canadian. that’s the way a mature society is supposed to act. kudos to the fellow Canadians! 
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Wow.
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umm…? Remember the train lady in Australia where she called some lady a gook etc? She was reprimanded on the spot, but that doesn’t change the fact that Australia is racist.
Mehhh. What more do you expect from descendants of convicts..
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There is racism and Islamophobia everywhere in West…it’s just that US is more tolerant than other Western countries.
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actually, yes, there were convicts, but there were also settlers 
in sydney, melbourne and other areas.
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US is more tolerant…? It’s the US that started this whole mess against Muslims. What do you mean it’s tolerant? and it’s not just the west that has a problem with Muslims.
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I’m talking about the general public…not the government or their foreign policy.
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I just think it’s odd that you think it’s better for Muslims in US than in UK. What makes you say that?
This was interesting
http://islamicommentary.org/2014/02/anti-muslim-sentiment-rising-in-the-u-s-what-is-happening-to-religious-tolerance/
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Two reasons.
Muslims in US are more integrated in the society than the muslims in UK…probably due to the social classes. US Pakistanis are generally more educated and belong to middle-class of Pakistan.
English people are socially very reserved or conservative…they don’t accept others quickly.
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hareem mentions two very good points that I have noticed about the UK and North America:
- the desi community in North America is generally more educated than the British Pakistani population which seems to come predominantly from rural communities back home. This allows them to integrate with less difficulty into mainstream society.
- the English community is in fact very conservative and doesn’t allow integration as readily as North America does. Perhaps this stems from the feeling of entitlement or superiority that colonial England espoused a century ago…
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Interesting comment about the video in the article below…
Racist Olivia Chow cartoon tests Canada: Mallick
We have the racist Sun cartoon of Olivia Chow and we have a Hamilton anti-racism video. Only one reflects the Canada we love.
Columnist Heather Mallick is outraged by an Andy Donato cartoon that appeared in the Toronto Sun. She calls it “Alabama-style racism” that is “not socially acceptable in our country.”
By: Heather Mallick Columnist, Published on Fri Oct 31 2014
Two days before the election, the Toronto Sun ran a cartoon of mayoral candidate Olivia Chow, a famous and storied politician in this city, a fixture in Canadian life. And there she was with slitty eyes slanting at a 45-degree angle, wearing a drab Mao suit and holding up the empty coat of a dead man, labelled “Jack Layton,” upon whose coattails she was standing. I’m not making this up.
I hadn’t seen the cartoon because I haven’t looked inside the Sun for decades, nor have you. Until I read a column on this subject by Toronto Star board chair John Honderich, I hadn’t even seen the cartoon. I mean, better him than me. I had other moral residue to poke a stick into: the online viciousness towards women describing alleged attacks by Ghomeshi, the continuing demonization of Muslims by the federal Conservatives, blocking violent threats on Twitter, etc.
There used to be a line in this good country beyond which we did not venture. Think of it as the solid white line painted on a highway. You didn’t cross that social line because you risked crashing. But that line of decency in public life has become dotted, and foul people are crossing over into the other lane.
I’ll give you an example of Canadian restraint. The death of a child is the worst thing a human being can endure. So I will never knowingly attack a person who has lost a child, pretty much no matter what. It’s my own personal solid line.
The line that the Sun crossed? You and I don’t even drive on that highway.
The late Jack Layton was greatly loved. He died counting on the idea that we wouldn’t mock his wife for having become his widow, that he wouldn’t be remembered as an empty suit, that Chow’s endurance wouldn’t be portrayed as risible or a mere political tool.
It’s not just the cruelty — commentators are allowed to be cruel, it’s an option — but the cartoon was cruelty combined with bad taste and an open dislike of a person for being female while being of Chinesedescent.
This is Alabama-style racism. It is not socially acceptable in our country. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair deplored the cartoon and Honderich called for a public declaration from civic leaders and opinion leaders that it was unacceptable. So where is that declaration?
As it turns out, it comes from Canadians waiting for a bus.
This week, three young men named Omar, Zach and Devin produced an astonishing YouTube video of a social experiment they conducted on the streets of Hamilton, Ont. After the Parliament Hill murder of Hamilton’s own Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was loudly blamed on Muslim terrorism, filmmaker and York University student Omar Albach and his friends wanted to test the reaction to open anti-Muslim bigotry.
In their crisp, funny three-minute anti-racism video, a silent Zack Ghanen, bearded and wearing traditional long white Muslim dress, is targeted at a bus stop by (friend) Devin Giamou playing a bigot. Giamou mocks Ghanen to his face, announcing to people in the lineup that he might be “armed with explosives” and shouldn’t be allowed to board in such clothing.
Instantly, people — regular Hamiltonians waiting for a slow bus on an October afternoon —disagree, loudly and proudly. “You can’t stereotype and judge people by their clothes or their nationality or anything else,” one particularly articulate middle-aged man said to Giamou. “What happened was an incident of fanatics. Everybody cannot be punished like that. They did that in the United States on 9/11. It was crazy.”
“Excuse me, please do not be so disrespectful,” an indignant woman told Giamou.
“He’s with me,” random people said of Ghanen, instantly claiming to be friends with a man they had never met in order to protect him from a racist. “I’ll take responsibility for his actions, bud,” Gaimou was told.
“I don’t feel safe so I can’t take this bus,” the “bigot” told them.
“Well, take the next one, my friend!” was the response. “I wouldn’t want to be on the bus with you, man, honestly I wouldn’t,” another young man said quietly.
The thing escalates, two men get irate and one of them throws a quick punch that connects. Cut to Gaimou, talking to the cop who has just been called. Gaimou denies all knowledge of who hit him, saying it was no big deal. And the cop says, “Okay, no problem. You’re good to go though, okay?” The video ends with Gaimou, blood pouring in streams from his nose to his chin, cheerfully declaring an absence of street racism and saying of his attacker, “He stood up for him, and I appreciate that.”
Seriously, in the name of fighting racism, a Canadian stands in front of a camera praising someone for punching him in the face. I love this so much I could kiss my computer screen.
The utterly ordinary details of this beautiful home movie — people’s backpacks, their hoodies and toques, their groceries in those ubiquitous white plastic bags — are so painterly and calming. I love the Canadian vernacular, the “bud” and “my friend,” the “good to go” and the habitual “excuse me.”
What slaughters me, what finishes me off, what has me grinning and running the video over and over again — I want to put this thing on a loop on my living room TV — is this. The affable cop putting away his notepad and saying “You want anything, you can give us a shout” in the most Canadian accent imaginable? He seems to be of Asian origin, my friend.
Source: Racist Olivia Chow cartoon tests Canada: Mallick | Toronto Star
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Racism is a complex topic that can’t be boiled down to one video.
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of course not.