West Coast Connection Forum
Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: J Bananas on November 02, 2005, 10:26:43 AM
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It seems like a pretty clean country with little crime, are there ghetto neighborhoods where just minorities live with lots of crime and shitty buildings and stuff? I remember on Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore had a little segment pointing out the Canadian ghetto and it was a nice apartment complex, was he right?
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lol...man u soundin hella ignorant right now
The world is ghetto. Theres ghetoos all over the world. All over the world u have places where the poorest of society is pushed into. You got corners where the lower classes congregate. Anywhere in the world u got public housing, welfare etc etc that shit is universal.
Here in toronto we got ghettos and hoods, some nasty as hell, most decent compared to fuckin american slums. but dont get it twisted T Dot we keep it gd up
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lots of gangs but i don't think there are ghettos. If there is, it would probably be in toronto. MAYBE in montreal..
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Of course there are some ghettos in Canada, but they don't hold anything to the ones in America in size or ruffness.
What Micheal Moore was showing is true. A lot of the ghettos are goverment-run apartments. In Canada that means they're pretty nice.
Government owned complexs in America are shit to the ones in Canada.
I've seen government housing that is better then regular housing all over Winnipeg, Mb.
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in toronto most of the public housing is fuckin run down man. its discrepit, needs repairs, graffiti. man i feel stupid posting int his thread
ghetto is universal
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My father grew up in one, so I'd say yes.
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tech got it spot on... everywhere in the world has its grimey places..
i dont know where the line for "ghetto" is..
we have poorer, govt housing areas with more drugs and crime etc..
but as for is it ghetto? i dunno..
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It seems like a pretty clean country with little crime
Vancouver has the second most property crimes in North America next to Miami. It is the stolen car capitol of North America. And we average 1 bank robbery per business day. If you wanna see a ghetto, go to the downtown eastside of Vancouver.
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The only place in North America where the government gives out herion and clean needles to junkies. Just go to google and search "downtown eastside" and see how much stuff on Vancouver comes up.
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lol...man u soundin hella ignorant right now
The world is ghetto. Theres ghetoos all over the world. All over the world u have places where the poorest of society is pushed into. You got corners where the lower classes congregate. Anywhere in the world u got public housing, welfare etc etc that shit is universal.
Here in toronto we got ghettos and hoods, some nasty as hell, most decent compared to fuckin american slums. but dont get it twisted T Dot we keep it gd up
dude youre the one sounding ignorant. i asked a simple question. it wasnt to spite you, but it obviously struck a nerve cuz u prolly listen to too much ghetto music and wish u were a part of it. the wrold is not a ghetto, the world has a lot of very nice things. stop trying to sensationalize a lower quality of life and pretend like its somethign that earns braggin rights. i cant stan u suburban dfuckers who speak on ghetto life like u have some connection thru rap music something, just stop. you are the brainwashed ignorant one. end of discussion.
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no you stupid motherfucker, the one who is askin stupid questions and making stupid assumptions is the one thats ignorant. You faggot.
Suck this ghetto dick.
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no doubt theres ghettos all over the world
vancity's downtown eastside is pretty ghetto. i just wonder whats goin to happen wit their plan to relocate all the homeless and shit to make the city look more presentable for like 2010 when the world comes here
try the ghetto townships of south africa where ppl live in makeshift houses and its literally every man for himself cuz u know the white govt their dont give a shit bout no coloured ppl
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anyone heard of east van... ghetto. people dont realize how big of a drug problem there is in vancouver..and im not talking about weed..
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^^^^its becuz our govt is handin out the needles and shit and their r safe injection sites
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^^^^its becuz our govt is handin out the needles and shit and their r safe injection sites
i dunno... the problem was there WAY b4 they started all these new programs... the reason for these plans is to try and keep the drugs off the streets.. the last thing u want is to step on a fuckin needle that has just been used by someone HIV positive.
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East Van and Surrey nowadays theres gun related deaths takin place there everyday now ??? same with Toronot lately
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East Van and Surrey nowadays theres gun related deaths takin place there everyday now ??? same with Toronot lately
yeah man, some guy got beat to death in surry holloween night... thats fucked
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East Van and Surrey nowadays theres gun related deaths takin place there everyday now ??? same with Toronot lately
yeah man, some guy got beat to death in surry holloween night... thats fucked
yea dis dude in my math class, his cuzin got shot on halloween in crougar creek :| thats right in surrey if u dint know, they had choppers patrolling for like 2 hours on top of our house
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Yea, its crazy in vancouver....you can be in the one of the nicest parts of downtown, then walk 2 blocks east and run into ambulances and cops takin away od's and the dirtiest part of the city
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no you stupid motherfucker, the one who is askin stupid questions and making stupid assumptions is the one thats ignorant. You faggot.
Suck this ghetto dick.
struck a nerve did I? you'll forget about it after a nice dip in your hot tub and a mimosa.
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no you stupid motherfucker, the one who is askin stupid questions and making stupid assumptions is the one thats ignorant. You faggot.
Suck this ghetto dick.
struck a nerve did I? you'll forget about it after a nice dip in your hot tub and a mimosa.
you did sound ignorant when you asked about shitty neighborhoods where all the minorities live with shit buildings.
hello captian stereotype.
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Umm, I'm sorry, am I supposed to pretend that shitty neighborhoods aren't predominatly minority based? I am the ONLY white household on my block and it's a decaying neighorhood. It's ok for blacks to complain about the hoods living conditions but if I agree I'm racist. Uh uh, I go thru the same shit as all the minorites in my hood, and I'm just supposed to keep my fuckin trap shut? I should be allowed to comment on ghetto life and seek out others sharing the same experience without being labeled racist by some blue blood suburbanite who feels guilty about his wealth so he makes it a career of soloing out white men who arent as uptight as him. fuck that.
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there are bad spots all over the world... but im 100% certain a bad spot in canada, australia well developed nations like these, these bad spots dont compare to ghettos of south central L.A, african ghettos, russian ghettos, ghettos in south america... you just cant compare it...
so the answer: no there are not ghettos in Canada.
but i guess it all comes down to how you define ghetto.
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so the answer: no there are not ghettos in Canada.
and your answer yet again is wrong.... ::)
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Umm, I'm sorry, am I supposed to pretend that shitty neighborhoods aren't predominatly minority based? I am the ONLY white household on my block and it's a decaying neighorhood. It's ok for blacks to complain about the hoods living conditions but if I agree I'm racist. Uh uh, I go thru the same shit as all the minorites in my hood, and I'm just supposed to keep my fuckin trap shut? I should be allowed to comment on ghetto life and seek out others sharing the same experience without being labeled racist by some blue blood suburbanite who feels guilty about his wealth so he makes it a career of soloing out white men who arent as uptight as him. fuck that.
anybody besides u seems to be a subarbanite...
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CANADIAN GHETTO
...THE POOREST POSTAL CODE IN CANADA , JOEY ONLY, MARCH 2003
After coffee I walk up to Main and Hastings. The Raging Grannies of the Eastside are slowing down trafficing, leafletting, and yelling through megaphones to all the onlookers about the Olympics and their impact on the poverty stricken Eastside Ghetto. For the third day in a row I am surrounded by angry poor people, and lots of cameras from television news. The poor are getting restless.
I go to the Anti-Poverty Committee office and I am given some organic Tobacco from Gautemala. I smoke some. It makes me puke, sweat, shit and then eventually it works through me like some sort of strange trip. I was almost hallucinating sitting on the steps in the alley. As I stared at the ground I could sense nearly everything going on within a few hundred feet. The ravens were fighting the other birds as spring begins. Movie crews were putting up sets. Music was blaring. People were pushing shopping carts with their belongings through the alley. I sat for a long time silent and thoughtless recovering from the rare tobacco smoking I did.
I think it was a cleansing I had to do. After two hours I was alright to work again, so I helped write up a callout to our allies. The Prime Minister is speaking at a homeless shelter tomorrow to promote the Olympic Bid. He is gonna hafta hear from us.
You wouldnt believe the suffering that goes on here in the Eastside of Vancouver. It is unreal dude. Just today I was talking to a comraade and this young First Nations man comes up to me asking for a light. He was real sweet. He got talking with me and liked what I said, so he smoked me a joint. We had a good talk and he even told me that his mother had poisoned him with alcohol (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) while pregnant. As we sat there in the alley a woman came and sat down with us and smoked some crack. Unbelievable how casual it is on a warm sunny day.
So we left the alley and some crackhead comes up to the dude and is all angry WHERE IS MY MONEY and that sort of shit. He punches the Indian kid in the face and I did not let him get a second shot. He shoved me but was reluctant to push it further, I was far too calm and confident he must have figured.
I JUST DONT WANT VIOLENCE ON MY STREETS.
As he dealt with me the Indian boy walked away up the street with his head down quickly,
So I go and grab some smoke and I put a bit aside. I figgerz if I see that angry crackhead I would give him some smoke and tell him to take it easy on the kid. Instead when I come out I see this guy light something on fire on the fountain of Pidgeon Park; it burns like an altar. The guy takes off pushing a shopping cart as it burns and burns. He walks past us and says it is 2lbs of clippings and drops another bag in the trash next to us...marijuana clippings spill out everywhere.
So I go up the street and bump into Chris. He is older, when I came to Vancouver on Oct.26th he had a tent for me to sleep in at Woodwards Squat for Social Housing. Figgering I wouldnt see the angry Crackhead again I gave Chris the bud I had set aside. Chris has been housed in the Dominion hotel, one of the things the 150 Homeless Campers got for the winter after 90 days of sleeping on the sidewalks of the Old Woodwards building.
I go to Chinatown, I buy vegetables. Wow, what an afternoon.
http://www.freewebs.com/garlicbobcat/resistingarrest.htm
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anybody besides u seems to be a subarbanite...
well?
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wanna see ghettos? Come to my city...
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yeah dt vancouver is pretty fucked up
i mean u can go by the louis vuitton store and from there walk like 4-5 blocks and now ur in east vans worst neighborhood where there are like druggies in every alley way
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so the answer: no there are not ghettos in Canada.
ur an idiot.
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i live in east van and not just main street by the fuckin train station and if u walk around here at like 10pm u probably will get jumped, stabbed or shot its all good tho.
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It seems like a pretty clean country with little crime, are there ghetto neighborhoods where just minorities live with lots of crime and shitty buildings and stuff? I remember on Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore had a little segment pointing out the Canadian ghetto and it was a nice apartment complex, was he right?
we had 3 killings on Halloween :o...in my city of Surrey, Britich Columbia, Canada.
the past few years its been gettin worse and worse
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so who should get the medal? ::)
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there are some in mtl, like burgundy (la petite bourgogne). I've been to a lil city in gaspésie when i was 14 with my father, in fact we were lost, and that was the worst shit i saw in my life. i dont remember the name of the city but it was like people there were left to themselves. it was like africa in canada with white peeps. i dont know if this city still exist