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Originally Posted by someone123
I am not sure about "blank slate" verbatim but lots of people have said to me (in Vancouver) that they don't think Canada has its own culture. I think these were all native-born Canadians.
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I've had immigrant and first generation Canadians ask me point blank why they should care about or take an interest in Canada's cultural heritage when most native-born Canadians (seemingly) don't give a shit themselves.
Obviously it's a generalization, and quite a few native-born Canadians
do care, but to the casual observer it can often seem almost like a *fringe* group.
And of course you have some immigrants who buck the trend and are more Catholic than the Pope, and make a deliberate determined effort to absorb all things Canadian (CFL, CBC, HNIC, curling, Strange Brew, Red Green, Tragically Hip, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Stompin Tom, Pierre Berton, etc.) regardless of the ambient indifference.
It's fun when you meet those types of people.