Basically, yes. And as for Canadians, they're similar enough that people make themselves at home jumping borders or could if they wanted to. Few could even tell the difference.. or even want to. We are all, if anything, supremely casual about the whole thing. The average American and Canadian is just chillin.
I just think it's a little absurd that I am specifically being targeted for imperialism. It doesn't make me mad.. it's just weird. It's a little more sad if I was a white male and fit all the visual assumptions. Life is going to suck for those people if they get so easily accused of the ills of the world. Me, not so much.
Right that is why Canadians don't do anything special to distinguish ourselves from our Neighbours when we travel. i mean who ever heard of Canadians travelling with the Canadian flag displayed all over their person? oh wait we do. We make sure a frak that people know we are Canadian and not Americans because we are just ever so casual when we travel and don't care if people think we are American. Pffft. People make themselves at "home" jumping borders in the EU that does not make the French the same as the Dutch or Swedes not to mention teh Germanic peoples.
Canada and the States share a common language and we are both immigrant nations but we are NOT the same. We have different values, we are not as distrustful of our government, Canada is not a religious nation. We don't believe in the melting pot, it is perfectly acceptable for people of different cultures to maintain their culture. We are far more liberal than the US. We don't think it is bad when the state takes care of the least fortunate in our society. Universal health care is viewed as a right by the vast majority of Canadians. 50% of our countries cabinet ministers are women.
Simply because we share a language doesn't actually make us the same. The fact that you are ignorant of the differences doesn't actually mean those differences are non existent. Over 40% of the population of the Greater Vancouver area is of Asian decent, approx. 29% are east Asian and south east Asian, 11% are south Asian and 2% are from the middle east. 42%! can you imagine the third largest US city having these demographics? But it gets even more crazy! over 50% of the population of the greater Vancouver area is a visible minority. That is right WHITE people are a minority. And you know what isn't on the agenda how to deal with racial tensions in the city. It would be hubris for me as a white Canadian to claim racism doesn't exist in the city and it isn't for me to say how minorities feel here, but racial issues are not on the political agenda nor do we get constant news reports of some white cop killing an unarmed minority like you seem to have in the states. So yeah we ARE different in many fundamental ways. Ask someone from Vancouver BC how they feel about race relations and you have a 50% chance of asking a visible minority which will give a better indication than some white guy like myself giving his opinion about racism in the City.
But sure lets just let opinion overrule facts cuz facts are ever so inconvenient to opinion based arguments.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia...cs_of_Vancouver
Gotta love you trying to use the white persecution card in your argument lol. I have to say it is ever so tough for me to be a white straight man in this world. i mean i struggle being part of the most power demographic in history, It is such a burden, being part of the dominate gender of the dominate race and a citizen of the most economically dominate nations in the world aka the G7/8. i mean how can I ever find anyone to represent me in games, literature or politics? Woe is me whatever will my straight white penis do in these trying times? Pfft don't make me laugh. i'd love to know how I am persecuting white people?
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