9891kydnewueiN wrote:
^ So the moment you take the test and pass you are as Canadian as, say, Wayne Gretzky? It's a paper that says you're now a citizen. After years of being here you will become a Canadian.
Those horrible people you call out are/were Canadians, sadly. Are you saying each country doesn't have their share? No one is saying Canadians are better than anyone else but you can't just become a Nationality overnight. Just like if I go live in Turkey and become a citizen, does that automatically make me Turkish? Will I just forget who I am? There is nothing wrong with being who you are but you can't be someone else just because a paper says so. You have to live it.
Where the whole argument falls apart in in the fact that you're not comparing the same thing.
Canada is a new country that doesn't have a millennia + of culture.
We are a boring vast country with no identity.
Telling people to adapt to a embrace a weak/non-existent culture is impossible and setting people up for immediate failure.
I'm as white and 'Canadian' as they come, but I'm also educated and travelled. I'm here because my family has been here for generations but I'm stuck in Milton and can't wait to get out of here. There are just too many people who really should be put back on a boat and sent back home, over the pond to the great cesspool homeland, before we end up like just like England.