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It seems that people conflate individual acts and experiences of racism with systemic racism. If the police stop and question me because I match a description - that's not racism, that's just inconvenient. Now if the officer said - hey according to city by-law blah blah blah, you're under arrest for having blue eyes *that* is systemic. There is a written on the books law treats me different from others. Systemic racism and flawed personal bias are not the same thing. The former does not exist in its literal form and (i'm very sorry kids) the latter will never go away completely.

When I was 18yrs old I got pulled over at gun point while driving home in my parents station wagon because the car supposedly matched a robbery that just happened. I had my new baby in the car with me and I said why would I rob a place with a new baby, he said miss if you only knew what I’ve seen....\nOh and I’m white, blond hair blue eyed.

I was arrested with my then partner, because we matched the description of Native Americans in a brown pickup truck, yes I still to this day have “armed robbery” charges on my record 34 years later. Just last year my granddaughter and I were in Target, when I noticed a guy following us around, I asked ‘ “why are you following us around” no answer, but filled us until we were done shopping and left the store, he followed us right out the front door!

I love when the USA and Canada play against each other in hockey, especially during the Winter Olympics.\nEdit: I'm from the US, and I was only seven years old when Crosby scored the golden goal in the Gold Medal match Vancouver 2010. After all these years, it still hurts thinking about it, but what to do, *hockey is Canada's game!*

Wow sir, nice you're video it is helpful actually my educational attainment is high school diploma, i work in Doha Qatar almost 8years, I will plan to go Canada the is my education.. please kindly share on me what is the work match to me I welling to live anywhere rural area in Canada.. thanks have a nice weekend ?????

Very useful vid! Thanks for sharing!\nQuestion though, does my experience let's say in NOC 2171 which is within the last 3 yrs has to match with the JOB Offer that I should get? Do I have to be currently working?\nThanks in advance! ?

Totally designed for the nice safe results that match the popular mass media narrative.

I love the fact that the people who made this went extra length to make sure the stories and even clothes are matching. Good stuff. Racists have no place in this world.

Psychology student here. In the interest of accurate information, I would like to point out some flaws I find with some of the studies in this documentary and question the conclusions reached. I understand that CBC Marketplace are not personality psychologists and therefore cannot be expected to produce the same quality of work as a scientist. However, I think it is worthwhile to think critically about the information in the media that we consume. I am also open to anyone who wants to engage in debating the contents of this documentary.\n\n\nThe following are some notes I took while watching the documentary outlining the individual hypotheses of the studies I think are flawed and descriptions of their respective accompanying errors. \n\n\nThere are three possible research questions, and thereby dependent variables, being answered by the apartment hunting studies.\n1. If there is no discrimination between the white man and the first-nations man, then they should get equal treatment, including quotes and availability, when apartment hunting. \na. Could the gender of the landlord be a confounding variable (perhaps men are more discriminatory than women)? \n \n2. If there is no discrimination between the white man and the first-nations man between Toronto, Montreal, Regina, and Victoria, then they should get equal treatment, including quotes and availability, when apartment hunting. \na. Could total apartments visited be a confounding variable? (4 in Toronto, 3 in Montreal, Regina, and Victoria) \nb. Could the gender of the landlord be a confounding variable (perhaps men are more discriminatory than women)? \nc. They only showed the black man apartment hunting in some of the trials. I am considering him out of the study for consistency purposes. The first-nations man is the only one who got unfair treatment in the footage of apartment hunting. \n \n3. Possible hypothesis: If male landlords/agents are more discriminatory than female landlords/agents, then the white man and the first-nations man will get different treatment at different Canadian apartments in equally diverse cities. \na. Don’t know all the information about the genders of the landlords/agents, not all the footage is shown, but the ones where they get ripped off are male. The others shown are female. The remaining interactions are not shown.\n\n\nThere are also some factors that may have influenced the racial bias survey and, in my estimation, rendered it scientifically unreliable.\n\n\n1. The bias survey and accompanying tests at the CBC attributed the differences between the studies to unconscious racism. What if it was just due to familiarity with certain racial groups over others? \na. The black participants had no bias between European-American and African Americans, supposedly indicating no racism, while the white and first-nations participants did, supposedly indicating racism. Is it possible that another interpretation of this result is that bias is a function of familiarity: that we are comfortable with the majority demographic in the geographical location we live in, as well as our own kind. Therefore, the black guys are less biased against black people due to being both black and living in a white majority demographic? \nb. The participants took the survey knowing the objectives of the researchers was to study racial discrimination. They might have influenced the answers they gave \nc. Whether the participants agreed with identity politics or not was a confounding factor that was not controlled . You can only be racially unbiased biased if you think that racial identity is a means of accurately viewing the world. People who do not believe in the existence of identity politics may answer the questions quite differently, which could be a different reason for the results.\nd. I took the study myself. The words that participants were required to match were a mix of adjectives and nouns. It is known within psychology that nouns have higher levels of imagery. This was not properly controlled and therefore is another confounding variable. \n \nAll the other studies looked fine to me. I welcome any discussion on my observations.

Hahah ‘the first intervention’ matched exactly the stereotype of a sjw

It's winter, i walk into town along a slush covered road, down a long hill - a woman struggles uphill carrying several bags of shopping - wearing a full burqa..the wind is almost blowing her backwards and she is struggling - my thoughts are 'cumbersome outfit for this climate'. i walk past the local synagogue, some Hassidic men are chatting outside most have one hand on their head, one man is picking his hat up and brushing slush off from it - my thoughts are 'im glad im wearing an elasticated beanie in this wind'\nlater on i walk past my local nightclub and there is a long line of young girls wearing very short skirts, high heels and sleeveless tops - with matching blue skin, my thoughts are twofold, first - hypothermia someone should tell them, second is -fashion, it may look cool in Naples, but this far north - in winter?...ridiculous.\npoint is, people wear clothing for various reasons, religious, cultural, social or just comfort. they dont choose to wear items because they desire to intimidate, but because it appeals to them, or their sense of self or cultural or religious identity.\nwe should respect that.\nif a piece of clothing intimidates or frightens you so much, you may have some deep psychological issues.

This is a lot of lies. The privately funded family that came to my hometown were beneficiaries on $11,000 which matched raised funds. They also got $2600/month for a family of 4 for the 1st year.

I dare the sharia patrol to rush on angry drunken hooligan after football match in england.⚽

Wait I guess there is problem with my phone the audio and video doesn't match

Canada should match the US requirements for citizenship. Live here for 10 years before you can apply. They're giving citizenships out like candies.

A poultry sentence does not match the size of the fraud.\nWhy not seize the millions he made?

How long ago did these things happen? I thought stamping a passport was obsolete, For the last 10 years or so, my passport for my county is electronic and my (and everyone elses) passport is recorded electronically at the point of entry and examined electronically to ensure the persons face and passport photograph are matched etc. I assumed that this is world wide, but perhaps I am wrong.

This is the most biased Canadian propaganda I've ever heard. I was standing in line at city hall in Calgary (paying my past due power bill which I can barely afford, even though I make 40k a year.) and watched a flood of immigrants in front of me claiming their 100% free bus passes. Apparently, you need an authorisation letter from welfare to claim your free bus pass, yet, none of them seemed to have documentation that matched their id. One guy picked up six free bus passes with a stack of letters that didn't match his name, or, even surname, at all. The cashiers seemed like they had just given up and handed over the bus passes saying, "next time make sure the person named in the letter is here to pick it up in their free pass person." <sigh>

Stop calling yourself Punjabi you are now Canadian live their you left your mother struggling but you can get everything but not soil where guru's spread their knowledge warriors shed their blood .this the reason why China is ahead of us those people learn anything out in the world they desire to bring it back to their country that is why US is jealous of them India having youngest population in world still struggling only because we are United only when India Pakistan match or on social media but ground reality is this video running from your responsibility.

While watching this- I see a guy who cares. I see a guy who wants to start his life. It just looks a lot to me like somebody who instead of working for 50 years and retiring- wants retirement and money- NOW. I know El Salvador is incredibly dangerous and money opportunities slim... but you just can’t save them all. The great cloud lingering over the heads of everyone born into a free land. There are billions of stories like Josè, however there are not billions of spots in the free world for these people. Some are luckier than others. Some work harder than others. Some try to accomplish with a fervor not matched by 90% of the world. It’s not fair- it’s not equal. It’s life, it’s suffering, it’s hardship. I hope the best for Josè and his family

How racist of Canada enforcing their borders and immigration laws!!! Where is the outrage from the left? Where are the matches? It’s okay for other countries to have borders and laws, but not America???

There is no difference between good or bad Muslims let me tell you why ..because at the end of the day they all desire the same objective and that is to achieve Islamic law which ever part of the world they choose to settle. We should ban Islam and demolish all mosques also it should be made illegal to distribute Islamic literature if they want to pray let them pray in privacy of their own homes. or migrate to an Islamic country that matches their lifestyle.

the Niqab is to hide the bruise marks that the husband gives when he beats her. That and Muhammad has a body count so high Genghis khan Joseph stallin Chairman Mao and Adolf Hitler combined cannot match.

I recommend all future rugby match players and fans have there after parties in these 'muslim patrolled areas'. And I truly hope these patrols come out and try to 'inform' that bunch about the 'laws' there breaking. It's easy to be a punk ass bully when it's five on one. Let's see how religious they are when it's more even!