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It depends. If you say "the blacks" or "the whites" do something, it means you are lumping them all together, which is bad. Calling someone a white person or a black person isn't offensive. Reply reply.
1 day ago · It found that between 7.4 and 10.6 per cent of Canadians are living in relative poverty, depending on how one defines the term. At the low end, defined by low after-tax income, some 58 per cent or 1.6 million people living in poverty are white, or what StatsCan refers to as “not a visible minority nor Indigenous.”.
1 day ago · Kasandy said the program aims to give Black-owned businesses an advantage as organizations commit to improving supplier diversity. "Government has done an amazing thing with Indigenous groups ...
6 days ago · African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more informal and ...
6 days ago · Black English. In what is also called Black Canadian, Afro-Canadian, or African Canadian English, there exist several varieties of English spoken by Black Canadians. The most well-established is the dialect spoken by Afro-Nova Scotians.
22 hours ago · Taiyon J. Coleman (pictured) is a poet, writer, and educator. She is associate professor of English and women's studies at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Taiyon J. Coleman. We ...
2 days ago · 14. Mickey. A mickey is a Canadian slang term for a small bottle of alcohol, typically 375 ml (a little over 12 ounces). It’s pretty handy to know if you see mickey on the menu or want to throw some true Canadian slang at someone. Though studies cannot find the exact origin, the term emerged sometime in the 20th century.
