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Listen: The Jamaican Beef Patty & Social Justice Grenada.. smell cinnamon Jamaican Patty… reminds her of the 1950s, largely women came from Jamaica to Toronto 1985.. mommy of social justice took place in Toronto .. in February 14th, a newspaper broke the headline, Canada threatens Patty sales Canadian government You must cease using the name Jamaican Patty.. they wanted them to change the name .. your definition of Patty is not the Canadian definition of Patty The Canadian inspector said you must call it a Caribbean pie David Peterson Toronto World: Drake, Halal Gang, and the Diaspora in the 6 January 31

alludes to the area's historical status as six distinct municipalities before 1998. The culture of those six districts – Toronto proper, Scarborough, North York, East York, York, and Etobicoke – is fluid, spanning ethnic communities and disparate neighborhoods. It's a diverse metropolis that has proven itself as fertile ground for music and art as well as struggle and conflict. violence in these communities has been linked to neighborhood rivalries.intra-racial violence between Jamaicans and Somalis, which has largely passed. There is a discernible new era of pan-African solidarity in today's Toronto, a fuzzy, quixotic premise that often hinges on the feel-good aesthetics of determination and solidarity. It’s imbued with a compulsory sense of “doing it for the culture,”Drake, as well as artists like K-os, Kardinal Offishall, K’naan, and The Weeknd have all played a part in ushering in. Largely second-generation Canadians, these new artists from “the 6” showcase their various black identities within their music, exhibiting a certain cultural fluency and familiarity. Somali kids reflexively slip in and out of Jamaican Patois; everyone says "walahi, Black Toronto slang is a living, breathing reflection of the city's vibrant diasporic community. sees what’s happening to the Somali language in Toronto as “a riff off of Somali orality” and “metaphoric ways of being and speaking.” In the same way wagwan – Jamaican Patois for “what’s going on?” – is now considered a Canadian phrase, the Somali language is being stripped of its origin as it enters wider use. Mire recalls recently hearing non-Somali people use the word kawaal. To them it’s just “Toronto Slang” As Toronto becomes increasingly influenced by Somali phraseology…The star benefits from a proximity to the vibrancy and authenticity of local Somali culture. We see this every time there’s a new diaspora community,” says Mire. “They prove that they exist, that they’re present, and then they’re co-opted--absorb, assimilate, incorporate the cultural proof of Toronto Somali kids' existence is their hypervisibility-associated with heightened scrutiny and surveillance where failures are magnified and individuals

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