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The women in white are wearing hijabs. There were
altogether four "hijabed" women sitting together.
(To see larger versions, click on the images)
Walking down Yonge Street, the longest street in Toronto (it goes even further north than the city itself), one sees the multicultural smorgasbord that the city has become. In fact, many people will now proudly proclaim that "Toronto is the most diverse city in the world." What that means is that Toronto is now a city of many cultures, many of them incompatible with each other, and with the main, white Canadian culture. The streets are filled with foreign sounds.
Even Tim Hortons, the coffee house named after a Canadian hockey legend, is filled with gibberish tongues. Yesterday, I was standing waiting for a cup of coffee, and I ended up in front of a table of five or six women, talking loudly in Filipino, oblivious to their surroundings. They could have been in Manila for all they knew.
The photos below are of restaurants along the Yonge Street stretch. As far as restaurants go, there is nothing really unusual about them. We are now used to eating food from around the world. (Some say that the idea of multiculturalism was sold to the Canadian public through their stomachs - imagine all those savory foods we can now eat!).
What popped out of these images is that the restaurants were not catering for the general Canadian public after all! They have become eateries for the very same ethnic group from which the foods originate! Why not come to Canada. We can even find our food on the most famous street in the country.
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An "oriental" woman is at the window seat.
These days, second generation Korean, Chinese, Filipino and even Thai seem to be willing to mix together as a Pan Asian group. This is an impromptu movement (not strategically planned) to solidify their strength against other "ethnics" and the most powerful "ethnic" of them all, the whites.
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Bulgogi was meant to be for Koreans!
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I was taking the picture.
(Photos by KPA)