This is a very well thought out post, and it makes a lot of good points. I have only one thing with which I take (slight) issue. You repeatedly lump Canada and America together. You speak of the melting pots of our cultures-but that's only the States. Canada is multicultural, it's enshrined in our laws. We try to celebrate different cultures and in fact are the most ehtnically diverse country on the planet (by percentage of population)
This is not to say that there aren't racists or racism in Canada, of course there is. I can think of no country that is free from it, nor any person who does not have some innate xenophobia (which must be overcome).
I can't say there are no Canadians making slurs against Russians, although we do have a considerably less hostile attitude toward them than the Americans, who still hold old Cold War grudges, but I do not think my people are making up a significant portion of the biogtry, yet we are held just as accountable for what is largely an American problem.
Too often people confuse The States and Canada, as though we are interchangable. I can assure you we are a different people. My culture in Ontario, is different then what you would find in Nunavut, or British Columbia, or the Maritimes, and it is certainly different from what you would find in America. We are not the same people.
Please excuse any mistakes or bad phrasing in my post, it's very early here.
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Date: 2009-12-19 12:59 pm (UTC)This is not to say that there aren't racists or racism in Canada, of course there is. I can think of no country that is free from it, nor any person who does not have some innate xenophobia (which must be overcome).
I can't say there are no Canadians making slurs against Russians, although we do have a considerably less hostile attitude toward them than the Americans, who still hold old Cold War grudges, but I do not think my people are making up a significant portion of the biogtry, yet we are held just as accountable for what is largely an American problem.
Too often people confuse The States and Canada, as though we are interchangable. I can assure you we are a different people. My culture in Ontario, is different then what you would find in Nunavut, or British Columbia, or the Maritimes, and it is certainly different from what you would find in America. We are not the same people.
Please excuse any mistakes or bad phrasing in my post, it's very early here.