Canada

You will be just fine. Enjoy yourself here.

I’d say generally yes. Of course, there are still assholes like in any country.

Cities are generally quite multicultural with people from everywhere. Every major Canadian city I’ve visited has seemed to be quite friendly.

I’ve seen people say to avoid Alberta in this thread. Generally, unless you are going to Middle of Nowhere, Alberta where their yearly tourism consists of a single person stopping by to get gas, you’ll be perfectly fine.

I would say Canadians are more polite than friendly. Too polite to be really friendly a lot of the time.

Most areas are a mixed bag of all colours, and nobody cares. You may still encounter a racist or two, but it is not overt racism like the USA is displaying right now.

We've got a "range" but most fall into friendly category. People will stop to help you when you're stuck.

Lol as a minority that's born here and lived in cities across the countr: Canada definitely has racism still. We are very diverse; especially in the bigger cities of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

I recently travelled to NB and witnessed some racism. Wasn't anything too bad. I've had worse. But you'll find more ignorance than hate. Hate looms it's ugly head depending on where you go and what minority you are. I think for the most part, you'll be okay, you might get weird comments here and there, but most people will be nice as a general rule of thumb.

Remember… “planning on traveling to Canada” is like saying you’re planning on traveling to Europe… it’s a BIG place that spans four time zones and has all sorts of people.

So you’re likely to spot some bigots, but there’s also plenty of welcoming people. Part of it depends on where you go. In general, cities are more multicultural and a little of more rural areas used to be very white, with indigenous reservations in the most unexpected places.

Beside that, Alberta is “Little Texas” and BC isn’t that different from Washington and Oregon states. Manitoba is really friendly, Quebec tends to be welcoming in the cities and culturally insular in many of the rural areas. All the east coast provinces tend to be really friendly. The territories are very sparsely populated, so other people are treated like a gift OR like something the person is trying to avoid — race doesn’t tend to come into it.

Yes. If you are from the United States, you might not get welcomed as warmly as you once were. There is an occasional racist, but overall, Canadians are very welcoming.

If they're not, you let me know. I'll thump 'em a good one for you.

In Toronto you'll find Canadians that are all sorts of colours names and sizes, and a restaurant somewhere that serves your home country's cuisine. Most people in the city don't care.

The closer to the urban centre you are the less you are likely to be judged for looking foreign, though that chance is very small to begin with. If something racist gets shouted at you in public here, people are going to look down and walk away, look with disgust at the person making that remark, or tell them off.

Outside of the city, bigots are still the vast minority, but there may be more subtle ways you could be looked at differently, well-intentioned but largely due to the unfamiliarity with outside cultures.

I only speak for most Canadians, but we're the greatest fucking country in the world, and we love all colours, sizes, types....

ymmv, eh!

Seriously, though, there are assholes everywhere but you're unlikey to encounter them. We're an extremely polite, helpful, accomodating and accepting society, so carry on!

Stay away from Alberta and you should be safe.

Yes. If you're out east, there's a ton of black people. Out west, less so. Either way people will be friendly.

In my experience, foreigners are so ubiquitous there the locals barely notice

Maybe you'll be treated differently if you struggle speaking English (or French if visiting Quebec) but your post implies that's not an issue

Of course, if you're moving instead of visiting the answer a bit more nuanced as the cost of living crisis there is very real

Depending on where you're coming from, you might have a different idea of what friendly is. While nearly all Canadians will treat any foreigners with kindness and respect, we don't tend to go out of our way to talk to and be hospitable towards strangers as much as people in a lot of other countries do. Especially in big cities.

Not saying you can't find openly racist people in the country, especially some very rural areas, but the chance of running into people who aren't friendly to visiting foreigners of any appearance is extremely low. Canada is quite multicultural, especially in the major cities where you wouldn't even garner a second glance from people.

I doubt appearance will factor significantly in most places. Where in Canada were you planning to travel to?

Also, which country are you from? We're rather cross with America right now so if you're from there then there might be some additional coaching I'd suggest.

The only times someone might give you a hard time is when refusing to learn even basic french words in Quebec. *Ofc disregarding the dumb shit that is not specific to Canada.

I’ll say depend on where you’ll go

If you go in most major cities you’ll probably be fine