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- From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
- Subject: Re: Are there ghettos in Canada?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.194437.15323@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:44:37 GMT
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- In article <1k1a4s$7qj@agate.berkeley.edu> delorme@garnet.berkeley.edu (Lisa DeLorme) writes:
- >I have an impression that may not be true, which is why I am asking this,
- >please correct my impression if this is not true.
- >I have been to several of the larger Canadian cities, and lived in Toronto
- >briefly. (although some visits were many years ago)
- >
- >I never remember seeing what would really be called a ghetto. Does
- >Canada have them? I remember a few run-down areas, but certainly nothing that
- >would compare to New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant (sp?), Los Angeles' Compton,
- >Chicago's Cabrini-Green or even East Oakland or Hunter's Point (San Francisco)
- >
-
- Fear not...our politicians are busy creating them...in a decade or so,
- our ghettoes will be as "good" as yours are. Social decay in Canada
- with respect to the US is not as far advanced, but we are doing our
- best to catch up.
-
- >So, what constiutes a ghetto in Canada. What US areas that I know might they
- >be comparable to? Where are they located? Is this a relatively new thing,
- >or have I just missed it all along.
- >
-
- There is nothing really comparable to the worst ghettoes in the United
- States yet...but we are on the slippery slope.
-
- Gerald
-