re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg

When I was in Canada, I visited a local branch of a major bank and was surprised to see a sign on the door saying they now offered full service in Arabic.

I immediately thought of the shitstorm that would follow if an American bank in say Texas tried such a thing.

I saw more hijabs and middle easterners in the past two weeks than I have in the past two years. Around this area it’s mostly white, black, some Latino, Vietnamese and some Chinese, but virtually no middle eastern. Not the case in Eastern and Southern Ontario.

You know what else I noticed? How well people got along. It wasn’t about skin color. It was just about being human. I MISS that. American needs it so badly.

I saw the same in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario. (That’s Canada, right? They use Canadian money… .)

Not only that, using my local bank ATM card at a bank in Saskatchewan, it put up a screen asking which language you wanted, with eight choices, all of which apparently give you Canadian money.