Données et actualités démographiques - Montréal / Montréal métropolitain

[Malek]

Diversity and visible minorities aren't a one to one relationship. I hate these studies that prioritize visible difference. Like Irish, French, Russians and Danes and all homogeneous. Like an immigrant from India brings more diversity then an immigrant from Italy.

 

Well said, sick and tired of having diversity equaling wearing a turban or having a yellow/brown skin.

[MTLskyline]

Yeah, according to stats can Vancouver and Calgary are more diverse than Montreal, and we all know that's not the case. They just have a higher portion of Asians.... Fifty years from now, Vancouver will probably have a Chinese majority.... That's not diversity...

[steve_36]

Diversity and visible minorities aren't a one to one relationship. I hate these studies that prioritize visible difference. Like Irish, French, Russians and Danes and all homogeneous. Like an immigrant from India brings more diversity then an immigrant from Italy.

 

Je suis totalement d'accord avec toi. La diversité ne se mesure pas seulement par la couleur de la peau et l'origine ethnique mais aussi par la langue parlée, la culture, la religion, les US et coutumes ainsi que par la cuisine que l'on mange, la musique que l'on écoute, la manière de penser etc...

 

Vancouver possède beaucoup d'asiatique mais la diversité n'est pas comparable avec celle de Montréal.

 

La diversité de Montréal est représenté non seulement par les communautés visibles tel que les haitiens, chinois, vietnamiens, pakistanais, africains, sikhs, juifs orthodoxes, autochtones, mexicains etc... mais aussi par les Italiens, les polonais, les juifs (non religieux), les acadiens, les irlandais, les écossais, les gaspésiens, les russes, les chiliens, les ukrainiens, les grecs, les saguénéens, les français (de France) ainsi que les québécois, les anglo-québécois, les roumains, les arméniens, les portugais etc.... et je ne nomme que les nationalités.

 

Je ne me souviens pas d'avoir vu autant de diversité à Vancouver ni ailleurs dans le monde autre que New York, Toronto, Paris et Londres.....et peut-etre Los Angeles mais encore !!!

[Habsfan]

Diversity and visible minorities aren't a one to one relationship. I hate these studies that prioritize visible difference. Like Irish, French, Russians and Danes and all homogeneous. Like an immigrant from India brings more diversity then an immigrant from Italy.

 

Well said, sick and tired of having diversity equaling wearing a turban or having a yellow/brown skin.

 

Completely agree with you boys! I think too much emphasis is put on "visible minorities" in this country. Yes, minorities are a good thing, no doubt about it, but what about the semi-visible minorities or the minorities that aren't visible? They count as much as the visible ones too!

[MTLskyline]

I think the whole concept of having people of visible minorities = diversity is a very American concept.

 

In the US, it's race first. White people tend to blend together (you have combos of people who are really mixed, like 1/4 Irish, 1/4 German and 1/4 Italian and 1/4 Jewish for instance). Not much interracial mixing though. So if your city has a high portion of "white people", "black people" and "Hispanics", your city is diverse. (even though a white American and black American might have more in common then say a white American and a Russian immigrant do.)

 

In the past, Canada, wasn't nearly as much of a melting pot (well in fairness, prior to 1950, it was pretty much just old stock Francophones and Anglophones here). In general, there has been a lot less mixing among different groups (I'm guessing because Canada seems to value a cultural mosaic over a melting pot). Most Jews are 100% Jewish. Most Greeks are 100% Greek, etc.

 

That said, this is quickly changing, as people are no longer pushed to marry someone of the same religion, ethnic group or race.

[rufus96]

Statistics Canada's High Growth Scenario Population Projections for 2031:

 

Toronto: 9.75 million

Montreal: 5.3 million

Vancouver: 3.75 million

Calgary: 2 million

 

... and so on. Not bad, quite frankly, for a high growth scenario. We preserve our 1.5 million cushion on Vancouver.

 

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-551-x/2010001/tbl/tbl028-eng.htm

[pedepy]

i can find you growth scenarios from the 1970's that had greater montreal at 10 million by 2010 ..

 

these things are seldom correct.

[Malek]

On est plus proche du 5.3 million dans 20 ans que du 10 millions il y a 30 ans.

[pedepy]

ces choses la dependent de tellement d'imponderables ... ca semble evident en 2010 mais en 1970 l'idee que toronto 'boom' autant qu'elle l'ai fait depuis 25 ans pendant que montreal s'ecrasait litterallement aurait ete presque risible.

 

voir la region torontoise doubler en 20 ans est autant probable que improbable; alors que tout cela semble bien logique en ce moment, un paquet de facteurs durs a prevoirs peuvent venir stopper sa croissance; apres tout, qu'est-ce que toronto a vraiment sur vancouver pour predique qu'elle doublerais sa population alors que l'autre non ? et si c'etait vancouver qui etait a 5 dans 20 ans et que toronto stallais a 7 ?..

[Habsfan]

i can find you growth scenarios from the 1970's that had greater montreal at 10 million by 2010 ..

 

these things are seldom correct.

 

En 1970 ils croyaient que montréal aurait 7 millions en 2000, pas 10 millions en 2010!?!?! Mais tu as raison...c'est rare qu,il sont raison..ils se trompent plus souvent qu'autrement!