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Originally Posted by Dollarstorrrrey
Dude, chill out. Toronto is a nice city but it is still not world class. It does not have the diversity (by U.S standards) that most cities have in the the United States. I don't know of any kind of real Hispanic or black community in Toronto either.
Toronto is just simply not impressive to most. It is not a city well known on the world stage, it is not iconic. Canadians should be proud that they have quite a large city such as Toronto in a country with such a small and mostly rural dwelling population though. That is a personal accomplishment.
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Wow, where do I begin? There were 400,000 blacks in the Toronto CMA as of the 2011 census, and 120,000 Latinos. Both population groups (especially Latinos) have grown quite a bit over the last 5 years, so when the 2016 census results are released, expect those numbers to have grown. Toronto's Caribbean community is among the largest of any city in the U.S. or Canada. By most metrics such as percent of foreign born (over 50%), number of large visible minority groups (with over 5,000 members), ethnicity, languages spoken, religious groups, etc., -- using those criteria, Toronto is right up there with NYC, London, Paris and LA as one of the most diverse cities in the world.
As a percentage of the total population, more Canadians live in urban areas than do Americans.
Here's some info I saw on another forum recently that shows foreign born populations for various city's metro areas narrowed down to the number of countries and overseas territories containing more than 15,000 residents within each metro. Obviously, NYC being 3 times Toronto's size (both city proper and metro) will have more groups surpassing the 15,000 threshold, but if I had the total numbers for the 5,000 threshold, the two cities would be much closer. I do know that the Toronto metro has
69 foreign born groups with at least 5,000 people each. Toronto still does very well against LA at 15,000 even though LA has a much larger metro population.
Number of foreign born groups with at least 15,000 people and countries of origin:
New York: 52
Europe: 13 (Italy, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, UK, Germany, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, France, Albania, Spain, Belarus)
Africa: 3 (Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria)
Asia: 13 (China, India, Philippines, Korea, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Taiwan, Israel, Japan, Vietnam, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Iran)
Americas: 23 (Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica, Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia, Haiti, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Brazil, Canada, Argentina, Barbados, Grenada, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, St. Vincent and the Grenadines)
Los Angeles: 30
Europe: 5 (UK, Russia, Germany, Ukraine, France)
Africa: 1 (Egypt)
Asia: 14 (Philippines, Vietnam, Korea, China, Iran, Taiwan, India, Armenia, Japan, Cambodia, Thailand, Lebanon, Indonesia, Israel)
Americas: 10 (Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Canada, Honduras, Peru, Nicaragua, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador)
Toronto: 28
Europe: 9 (UK, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Germany, Romania, in that order)
Africa: 2 (Egypt, Nigeria, in that order)
Asia: 12 (China, India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iran, Vietnam, South Korea, Bangladesh, Iraq, Afghanistan, Taiwan, in that order)
Americas: 5 (Jamaica, Guyana, USA, Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, in that order)
Oceania: 0
Miami: 20
Europe: 1 (UK)
Asia: 3 (India, China, Philippines)
Americas: 16 (Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Argentina, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago)
Washington: 20
Europe: 2 (UK, Germany)
Africa: 3 (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria)
Asia: 7 (India, Korea, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Pakistan, Iran)
Americas: 8 (El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Honduras, Bolivia, Jamaica, Colombia)
Bay Area: 17
Europe: 3 (UK, Germany, Russia)
Asia: 8 (China, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Taiwan, Korea, Iran, Japan)
Americas: 6 (Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Canada, Peru)
Chicago: 16
Europe: 6 (Poland, Germany, Italy, UK, Ukraine, Russia)
Asia: 6 (India, Philippines, China, Korea, Pakistan, Vietnam)
Americas: 4 (Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Canada)
Boston: 15
Europe: 3 (UK, Portugal, Italy)
Africa: 1 (Cabo Verde)
Asia: 4 (China, India, Vietnam, Korea)
Americas: 7 (Dominican Republic, Brazil, Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, Canada, Colombia)
Here's what happens when you bump it up to the 30,000 threshold for selected North American cities:
New York 35 (Europe: 9, Africa: 3, Asia: 9, Americas: 14)
Toronto 20 (Europe: 7, Asia: 9, Americas: 4)
Los Angeles 19 (Europe: 1, Asia: 10, Americas: 8)
Miami 14 (all in the Americas)
Washington 12 (Africa: 1, Asia: 5, America: 6)
Bay Area 12 (Europe: 1, Asia: 7, Americas: 4)
Houston 8 (Asia: 4, Americas: 4)
Montreal 7 (Europe: 2, Africa: 2, Asia: 2, Americas: 1)
Vancouver 7 (Europe: 1, Asia: 5, Americas: 1)
Chicago 6 (Europe: 1, Asia: 4, Americas: 1)
Seattle 6-7 (Asia: 5, Americas: 1-2)
Boston 5 (Asia: 2, Americas: 3)
Atlanta 4-5 (Asia: 2-3, Americas: 2)
Philadelphia 4 (Asia: 2, Americas: 2)
Detroit 3-4 (Asia: 2, Americas: 1-2)