tkip
Active Member
Was listening to the Stafford show this morning and they were talking about this topic and the rather lack of interest among newer canadians to demonstrate pride or even identify being canadian and what exactly it means to be canadian now.
One caller made a important point that I keep experiencing myself at work, among many different groups of people from different cultures. The caller expressed his view and shared a story about how families indoctrinate the younger people to not express pride for Canada over their parent's homeland.
In the caller's case, his friend, born in Portugual, married to a canadian woman and with a young child born here admitted that during sport events he would rather root for Portugual and hoped his son would to. Rooting for Canada would place last on his list.
This is the root cause at the centre of it all. Having lived in Toronto all my life, I've been dealing with this touchy topic for years now.
I myself have experienced on too many occasions, the opinions from various co-workers with mostly european backgrounds, born here in Canada who refuse to call themselves canadians. When I press the issue and ask why, they won't answer or state they're children of immigrant parents and I just don't understand.
You're right. I don't understand.
One caller made a important point that I keep experiencing myself at work, among many different groups of people from different cultures. The caller expressed his view and shared a story about how families indoctrinate the younger people to not express pride for Canada over their parent's homeland.
In the caller's case, his friend, born in Portugual, married to a canadian woman and with a young child born here admitted that during sport events he would rather root for Portugual and hoped his son would to. Rooting for Canada would place last on his list.
This is the root cause at the centre of it all. Having lived in Toronto all my life, I've been dealing with this touchy topic for years now.
I myself have experienced on too many occasions, the opinions from various co-workers with mostly european backgrounds, born here in Canada who refuse to call themselves canadians. When I press the issue and ask why, they won't answer or state they're children of immigrant parents and I just don't understand.
You're right. I don't understand.
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