Message from @ETBrooD
Discord ID: 627980797172776990
>what is it to be canadian
It is my personal belief that the only thing that makes someone who only knows canada and has no ties to any other culture 'canadian'
is shame
plain and simple
that is what is taught in our schools, be ashamed of our past, deconstruct what is left of the old
nothing that canada has done in the past will ever make up for our transgressions in the eyes of our people
therefore it can never and will never be our shared history that bonds us
but a shared sense of shame
Although the schools do teach us to be ashamed of our past now that was not always the case
I remember back when I was in school we learned about how the British brought civilization and modernity to the savage Indians
How old are you lol
I'm in my 30s
@Some Fucking Leaf well it will be like that for the time being, I don't believe any nation can survive constantly at war with itself. I don't think I'll have much of a stake in what comes after either though.
@Thejross Wow, that sounds pretty based for what the 90s? Did you live in a more conservative area?
Ontario
In Alberta we learned a lot about Canada bad, but I think that when you learn history looking at the bad can be good. How are we supposed to learn how to make good and just decisions. We should know when we did wrong. We should try and teach the glory and honour of our nation, but for schools should have the those who don’t learn from the past are bound to repeat it.
We have hero’s that are unknown to our people like major Leo, and that saddens me greatly but history doesn’t get learnt in 14 years, the world is too vast for all the history to be known in such a short amount of time
What I don’t like seeing is the liberal party or the conservative parties stamps in text books
The schools that I was in used to teach very objectively, minimal narrative spinning if any
Also back in the 90's
Political conversations were about as open-minded as they could get, no one was shut down or shamed (I think)
But that was in Austria
We did learn plenty of positive things about Canada in a sense, just none of it was history. All of the positive things, and I mean all as in like 99%, were firmly in the progressive mold and posed in opposition to Americans 'free healthcare and peacekeeping.' The history was all negative, residential schools, Chinese immigrants, persons case and a million different things about racism.
Plus, I was very often the only white kid in a class where we learnt all about all the awful things white people did.
Overtly political division was actually a bit less then America though, I grew up hearing about how G.W. Bush was Hitler and all the awful stuff white people have done but, I never really heard much fear mongering about the Conservative Party in particular.
Bush = Hitler? Wow, Hitler must've forgotten a lot of his lines
Bush's image has been almost totally rehabilitated already
Shoutouts to anyone who went to the Dave Rubin Maxime Bernier event.
Someone came all the way from Alberta.
Starts at around 1h9m
Judging people from different times by current SJW white/male hating standards is pointless and and devisive... which is the classic divide conquer and control goverment move..
Pps. Im currently wearing 'white face' make-up cause da raven is black
<:thinking_clown:590855640268668928>
when will trudeau condemn antifa?
I wonder
when they dont vote for him
^
Is it bad that I, a Canadian citizen, obsess over US politics, but couldn't give less of a fuck about the politics of my own nation where I actually have a vote I can use?
The answer is yes; yes, it is.