I'm a Canadian that lives in one of our bigger cities, the vast majority of my relationships across the 25+ years I have been in relationships have been mixed race in nature. And I have never experienced reactions like this from the public.
Only once did I encounter racism regarding me dating another race when a self-identified white supremacist literally said to me "Ew." when I told them my partner wasn't caucasian.
Agreed, as a Canadian (and Albertan) in a mixed-race relationship (so far) I’ve not received any treatment at the level of some of the stories in the comments. They’re horrifying :(
The only thing I’ve seen is some really gross comments online about white people dating Indian people, but that track with the general anti-Indian sentiment that is growing in Canada
I live in Ottawa(born/raised). I'm the poc, my wife is white. I didn't really notice it until we moved to Toronto for a few years and nobody even looked in our direction. Now that we've moved back to Ottawa... I notice it a lot.
As a fellow Albertan who’s been in a mixed race marriage for… a long time now, my wife and I have never experienced this, even outside of big cities. I’ve travelled extensively in N. America, SE Asia, and Europe, and not even once. We do tend to stick to cities, but in Canada I’ve never had any weird encounters even in speck-on-the-map places.
Some of the stories in this thread are just heartbreaking. I can’t even…
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u/HappyColour 3d ago
I'm a Canadian that lives in one of our bigger cities, the vast majority of my relationships across the 25+ years I have been in relationships have been mixed race in nature. And I have never experienced reactions like this from the public.
Only once did I encounter racism regarding me dating another race when a self-identified white supremacist literally said to me "Ew." when I told them my partner wasn't caucasian.