Another iffy statement in The Sellout (which I'm loving, regardless)

[Mark Thibodeau]

...and another one that unfairly targets Canada (or Canadians, if we
can take his erroneous slight against Cronenberg as being part and
parcel).

On page 149, when referring to the City of Lost White Male Privilege
(in an otherwise fantastic bit of business about trying to get a
sister city for Dickens), Beatty has Bonbon think:

You couldn't shout "America, love it or leave it!" when deep down
inside you longed to live in toronto. A city you told others was "so
cosmopolitan," by which you really meant "not too cosmopolitan."

Well, matter of fact, Toronto (where I live) certainly IS
cosmopolitan... probably the MOST cosmopolitan city in North America,
if by cosmopolitan, one means a city with a diverse racial mix. Whites
have been a minority plurality here for years already, and the
rocketing East Asian, East and West African, and South Asian
populations aren't about to reverse any time soon. Also, recently, the
number of Latino immigrants has risen dramatically. And currently,
Black culture is experiencing a years-long BOOM in Toronto, and all of
the above has made this city into a very interesting place to live in
recent years.

I mean... maybe I'm missing something here? Maybe I shouldn't take
this slight so personally (I'm not even a native Torontonian, and even
most CANADIANS hate on Toronto... but for different reasons... and
it's true that the city has its origins as a buzz cut button-down
"Toronto the nice" bastion of lily-white sexually repressed mainline
Protestant propriety that has recently mutated into sub-Trumpian
reaction). But jeez, man... sometimes you gotta just take the wins
when they come your way, you know?!

Love,
yer old pal Jerky