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		raganwald on March 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Woman’s Story In theory they could live anywhere they chose. But the gap between theory and practice is narrower in theory than it is in practice.

RyanMcGreal on March 30, 2012 [–]

My parents came to Toronto from Ireland in the 1960s and also experienced their share of covert racism. It may be hard to imagine that a city that is so cosmopolitan† today was so repressive and ethnocentric just a few decades ago.

† Notwithstanding the Toronto Sun, et al.

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