Path: utzoo!yunexus!tony
From: tony@yunexus.UUCP (Tony Wallis)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canada: one or two cultures?
Message-ID: <2875@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 89 12:37:30 GMT
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... charlesv@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Charles van Duren) writes:
>If you lived in the West, you would not say "English-Canadian" culture.
>There is no such thing out here; nor is there in Ontario. That is perhaps
>a large part of the problem. The rules were established before the settlement
>of the West, and before non-British Isles immigration. It would behoove
>Quebecois to remember this when dealing with the rest of Canada.
>
>Charles van Duren (Canadian, not Dutch-Canadian)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Bravo !  I migrated to Canada from <somewhere> 23 years ago and took out
Canadian citizenship as soon as possible (back then you had to wait 5 years).
Since then I have been sickened both by fellow Canadians who "hyphenate" me
(presumably because my lingering accent tells them I wasn't born here) and
by government(s) that encourage them to do so.

Tony Wallis (Canadian, not <ethnic>-Canadian)

"When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my pistol." - Hermann Goering.
"When I hear the word 'multi-culture' I retch." - Tony Wallis    :-)