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Originally Posted by kool maudit
i think it's a post-colonial thing.
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I think it's more a symptom of chronic regionalism. We behave more like randomly selected contestants on Big Brother than a family sharing a table.
I see it in myself, for example, when I
need to indicate if something described as Canadian doesn't apply here. I can't just let it be. And I get nothing from pointing it out - one person might think, "That's cool!" - but 9/10 couldn't care less. It just feels wrong to let the impression stand that this
thing, whatever it is, applies to my home.
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Originally Posted by kool maudit
canadians want very, very badly — to the point of interpersonal unpleasantness — to be perceived as coming from a very central, very renowned and enviable place. the reality is that many canadian places are very nice and enviable in their own ways, but the fear is that we are all on the margins somehow, or from a place that is of no real concern. this reflects canada's history.
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I don't understand that at all - and we're going to be sorely disappointed if that's the case. This really is a very plain, very bland, very "windswept and grey-souled" federation. There's very little in it that's truly, deeply engaging and invigorating.
As much as I love my colourful little city, it's still a sleepy town by world standards. And so what? It's mine and I love it, just as it is.
Our federation has its charms, and many of them are enviable, but being a very central, renowned and important place isn't one of them.