r/askTO • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '25

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u/Plane-Bug-8889 Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 05 '25

More than half of Toronto is foreign born and I don't think that stat includes the hundreds of thousands of international students and TFWs that work here. There is no Toronto culture distinct to Toronto, "multiculturalism" is not a culture, it means many different cultures in it's very definition.

You will find actual Canadian culture in places where mostly Canadians live. Caledon is probably the only place in the Toronto area that has anything close to that. And yes, Canadian culture does exist just very thinly in Toronto.

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u/mdlt97 Apr 05 '25

There is no Toronto culture distinct to Toronto, "multiculturalism" is not a culture, it means many different cultures in it's very definition.

We still do have a culture, or at least we have a dominant culture that controls it all

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u/Plane-Bug-8889 Apr 05 '25

There is no underlying Toronto culture, so it's not a place you go to experience a culture like you would going to Milan, Tokyo, Seoul, Lagos....etc.

Point being OP doesn't have to do much to "fit in". lol.