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A Canadian is a work in progress.
What is Canadian culture?
What is Canadian ethics?
What is Canadian fashion?
What is Canadian cuisine?
etc.
A work in progress.
Watching Hockey night in Canada does not make one Canadian!
Ejoying Hockey does not make a Canadian!
Cheering for the Toronto Maple Leafs makes you a..........
Recently the Toronto School Board started providing free Hockey equipment to a bunch of students not born in Canada so they could learn the joy of playing hockey.
One student who has just learned how to skate scored the first goal in their teams first game. That student had a smile so big it was a joy to watch.
Learn to be yourself, learn that it is what inside that counts.
Try to prevent anyone from abusing our good countries name. Stand up for your new country but most important be part of a good thing.
Roy
www.cvimmigration.com
[10-01-2010,12:29]
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Roy |
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(in reply to: What is a Canadian?)
nicely said.
My town is 33 days away from the world arriving for the Olympics. One of the projects we did was to create a set of 80 lapel buttons that represent the flags of all the countries that will be competing in the games. We give businesses and employees and opportunity to use the buttons to cheer for a country of choice or to demonstrate where they have orginially come from.
Without exception, the first button that goes on the lapel or jacket is Canada and it pinned on with a huge amount of pride. After that-anything goes. My boss is like me... his family came in the 1800´s so we are both wearing a string of countries about 10 inches long. People think it is tremendous fun.
[10-01-2010,14:38]
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Sharon |
(in reply to: What is a Canadian?)
Canada doesn´t have a specific/unique culture. Things are even "imported" from or imitate their American counterparts.
Culture take hundrends of years to build as they are part of nations´ history.
[10-01-2010,21:34]
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Anonymous |
Anonymous, my two cents (in reply to: What is a Canadian?)
Anonymous, my two cents, hope you went to school/college/university or whatever if not Google it, there are new world and old world, societies in both are not perfect or imperfect but are constantly evolving, all societies take good from each other.
Also get a life Anonymous and stop being so critical, about me i did work in Florida and was born in India, and now live near Roy´s office for almost two years,so i can talk a little about culture.
[10-01-2010,22:25]
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Anonymous |
(in reply to: What is a Canadian?)
I meant that cultures take a lot of time to evolve. The new socities have relatively new but growing cultures compared with the old societies. This is the case in Canada.
[10-01-2010,22:36]
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Anonymous |
(in reply to: What is a Canadian?)
we absolutely have a culture - tolerant, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, young, hopeful... evolving.
I like it that way.
[10-01-2010,23:00]
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Sharon |
(in reply to: What is a Canadian?)
That is the whole point "Canadian" is a work in progress.
Other countries identity are based on a language, a religion or short pants.
So America has culture and Canada only has culture imported from America yet it takes hundreds of years to import culture.
People, please look up the word (culture) in the dictionary it refers to a way of life.
The main way of life in Canada is compromise.
We borrow a little of this culture and we borrow some of their culture, and we like this about that countries culture and we shake it and it becomes Canadian culture. Who cares if it is borrowed.
So lets compromise,
Lets teach kids from countries that have never seen a snow flake to play hockey.
Lets teach kids from countries who have been taught to hate people from the neighboring country that those people are okay people to.
Lets teach people to leave the bad in their former countries and bring the good things from their country to Canada.
Lets compromise and learn new things from our new Canadian´s/
ALL TO MAKE CANADA A BETTER PLACE.
Roy
www.cvimmigration.com
[11-01-2010,07:25]
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Roy |
(in reply to: What is a Canadian?)
There is a lot of talk these days that Canada may finally get its independence this century from its colonial Masters in Britain. Who knows it might happen! If the Brits decide to let go of Canada without a fight... There is a great reason for the Brits to fight to keep Canada within their fold, even if the empire itself has been dead for decades; every time a British dignitary visits Canada, there are free comforts to be enjoyed (Canada is still British-owned). And then there are the special lists and private lists! I suspect the US and other free nations would gladly invite Canada into free world once Canadians grow balls and break their colonial shackles...
[11-01-2010,13:49]
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Freeman |
(in reply to: What is a Canadian?)
Freeman, educate yourself instead of spouting off your garbage. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often referred to as the Commonwealth and previously as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four INDEPENDENT member states, all but two of which were formerly part of the British Empire. The member states co-operate within a framework of common values and goals as outlined in the Singapore Declaration.[1] These include the promotion of democracy, human rights, good governance, the rule of law, individual liberty, egalitarianism, free trade, multilateralism and world peace.[2]
The Commonwealth is not a political union, but an intergovernmental organisation through which countries with diverse social, political and economic backgrounds are regarded as equal in status. Its activities are carried out through the permanent Commonwealth Secretariat, headed by the Secretary-General; biennial Meetings between Commonwealth Heads of Government; and the Commonwealth Foundation, which facilitates activities of non-governmental organisations in the so-called "Commonwealth Family". The symbol of this FREE ASSOCIATION is the Head of the Commonwealth, which is a ceremonial position currently held by Queen Elizabeth II.
[11-01-2010,14:18]
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Sharon |
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