It all blurs together because we share almost exactly the same media environment. When I was young, our education system used to make a point of saying the U.S. was a melting pot while we were a “mosaic”, but I think that framing has fallen out of favor. The same anti-immigrant sentiments that are expressed in the U.S. are found here, just less virulently and by fewer people.

If I can overgeneralize, there’s obviously some difference in the makeup of our different ethnic groups — we have fewer Hispanic immigrants, for example, and somewhat more Aboriginal people. Also, we are thankfully without the fraught African American history of slavery, although we share the historical sins of residential schools and Japanese internment. But the difference in diversity and attitudes between urban and rural communities is definitely greater than any overall difference between our two countries.

Thanks for the great series, by the way, and I’ll definitely be following The Truth in Between publication!