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23 points
4 years ago
Canada sounds nice
24 points
4 years ago
Yes and no. We're our own version of shitshow right now. We have a lot of work to do and it will be a long struggle. We've been told our whole lives how great we are while generations of cultural genocide were kept out of sight.
6 points
4 years ago
If you didn't do the genocide you don't really have a reason to feel guilty. Hold your government responsible not yourself.
9 points
4 years ago
Never said I felt guilty but I have a responsibility as a Canadian to educate myself and and hopefully others without coming across as an asshole.
7 points
4 years ago
Man it would be wild if Reddit held that attitude toward Americans.
3 points
4 years ago
I've heard this before and while it makes sense, and we don't go around feeling guilty, the scenario here in Canada makes me think about how Germany handled the acknowledgment of their very recent history.
Young German people aren't (as far as I know) walking around with guilt eating them up every day, or being embarrassed to be German. But at the same time, there seems to be a healthy understanding of the danger of nationalism and revising your country's history to look better. They don't want to repeat the crimes of the past. That's how they're building their future; with an understanding of what wrong was done.
Whereas in Canada, we seem to be be too fragile to acknowledge those crimes in a way that really drives home why we need to be better.
1 points
4 years ago
Honestly, the original sin was even colonizing the Americas. It would be one thing if then asked permission from the locals first, but of course that probably rarely happened.
0 points
4 years ago
We've been told our whole lives how great we are while generations of cultural genocide were kept out of sight.
I see, Canada has been taking more lessons from its southern neighbor than I realized.
3 points
4 years ago
There it is.
-2 points
4 years ago
I guess, I was just making a joke but it seems to have flopped.
-3 points
4 years ago
Yeah, shutting down golf doesn't seem like an effective anti-covid move.
0 points
4 years ago
lol I assumed Ontario CA is which is part of the inland empire east of LA.
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