Path: utzoo!lsuc!nrcaer!scs!sce!fear+loathing!richardb
From: richardb@fear+loathing.UUCP (Richard Brosseau)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canada: one or two cultures?
Message-ID: <6666@fear+loathing.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 12:25:24 GMT
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In article <1989Jul24.220904.22318@tmsoft.uucp> ead@tmsoft.UUCP (Elizabeth Doucette) writes:
>I have not been following this discussion very carefully.

Obviously not...


>My father's
>people are from Gaspe, P.Q., New Brunswick and France.  There is also
>Native Indian in our blood.  My mother's people are from New
>Brunswick, Ireland and England (Ireland - mom's great grandparents,
>England her mother).
>
>I am proud of being an Acadian.  I prefer my French, Irish and Indian
>ancestry.  But I am Canadian first.  I am sick and tired of all this
>belly aching about cultures.  If someone doesn't want to be a Canadian
>or they are not proud to be a Canadian, then go back to the country
>they came from.

Its this kind of attitude that fuels the fire...



>I realize that it is not that simple.  But I am sick
>and tired of all the complaining.
>
>I went to Europe for the first time 2.5 years ago.  I came home
>realizing how lucky we were in Canada.  While not perfect, we have
>cleaner air, a good standard of living, and people who are often quite
>thoughtful.  I reacted the same after being in England (although I
>really liked Scotland) and Trinidad & Tobago.  We are lucky to be
>Canadians.
>

And be thankful for what you got, child. Your father worked long and
hard for your standard of living...


>But do you realize that my neighbour's children know the American
>national anthem better than the Canadian because of the T.V. they
>watch?  How many people are really proud to be Canadians?
>
>Canada is a multi-cultural country.  There should be French, English,
>Ukrainian, etc. schools where there is a need.  But we are still

[ranting deleted]

>someone invents a language and the whole world adopts it.  But at the
>moment, English is used most frequently in North America and parts of
>Europe and other parts of the world.


You've obviously never have been shopping in downtown Montreal dear...

My mother has rarely gotton served in French by merchants on St. Catherine
street. Things are better now, but slightly so. Any we're not in
Tim-buck-too here deary... we're at home.


>If you don't like Canada, leave.
 
I think thats the general goal of the separatists... although they want
to take the furniture and half of THEIR house.


>I'm all for trying to make a country better.  I always try to be a
>better person.  But it is necessary to appreciate what you have, first.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Try to get a bit more educated though, before you bother ranting on the
net. There ARE books out there...



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