Ha ha, you are thinky tonight! But it's cool. You like your country, there is no harm in that! Canada is much the same way when it comes to ethnic diversity - so I understand what you mean.
There's something I love about walking around downtown in a major city in Canada and hearing everything from French to Korean, and knowing that we're all trying to make the country into something better than where our families originally came from and it's really rather nice.
Though, I should say, since my work concerns aboriginal peoples...that there are people living in Canada that DO have the weight of history behind them, and they are fantastic people too! :-P Ah politics.
But yeah, pop-culture usually gets it all wrong with countries. Believe me...I've seen what Canada ends up looking like :-P
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Date: 2009-09-23 07:03 am (UTC)There's something I love about walking around downtown in a major city in Canada and hearing everything from French to Korean, and knowing that we're all trying to make the country into something better than where our families originally came from and it's really rather nice.
Though, I should say, since my work concerns aboriginal peoples...that there are people living in Canada that DO have the weight of history behind them, and they are fantastic people too! :-P Ah politics.
But yeah, pop-culture usually gets it all wrong with countries. Believe me...I've seen what Canada ends up looking like :-P