>>60573896>Was Canada ever great? Zillennial here, growing up it was certainly better, but not great.
I grew up in the suburbs at first and multiculturalism was forced down our throats in elementary school, and even though there was a different variety of races, usually it would only be 1-2 of each non-white race per class, at worst find 3-4 of a single race in each classroom, so whites were still the clear majority.
Trans/gay shit wasn't really discussed. I think nominally you weren't supposed to make fun of gay people for being gay, but everyone said "faggot" or "that's gay" about everything and nobody cared.
I remember once a kid asked a teacher what the difference between sex and gender was and they just said sex was biological and gender was social. That seemed like nonsense to me at the time, even as a kid, I always (and still) view sex and gender as immutable and describe what you are at birth, and everything else was just made up. Looking back it's clear the roots for trans shit were already planted in our teachers at that time.
We moved to a rural area by the time I reached high school and it was 99% white. There was only one black family, and 2 asian families that lived in the whole small town. One kid worked at the asian restaurant and we'd always see him running there, and the other one had the nickname Asian John which he leaned into.
It was a farming school so there were lots of dumb redneck kids, but plenty of smart blue collared types, and only a handful of computer nerds (me).
I feel like I just missed the cutoff for housing, my older siblings both bought houses despite working low-skill jobs early out of high school (although with some help from our parents). I went to university for computer science and got a good paying job, but housing quickly moved from 200k when I finished high school, to 450k when I graduated, to 700k since I saved a down payment, and frankly it doesn't seem worth it anymore.