Practically no Canadian I've met identifies himself/herself as 'Canadian'. It's always 'Indian-Canadian', or 'French-Canadian' or 'Chinese-Canadian' and so on. Even the ones whose ancestors have been here for many generations seem to want to point out that they are from somewhere in the Old World. Or they insist on a connection with the First Nations. If they cannot do either, they admit their simple 'Canadian-ness' almost with embarassment.
Why !?! It's a beautiful and great country filled with lovely people. Why can't they be proud of being just Canadian !?!
Happy Canada Day !
2 comments:
Hey! I am very proud of being Canadian! Although I can understand what you mean, there's a lot of people that are as Canadian as they come and still associate with whatever country their ancestors came from long ago. But the few of us that are patriotic (I like to think) make up for it!
Good on you. But within my social circle, you are definitely in the minority. And that's sad, 'cause this is a lovely country.
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