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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Stop drinking the Heritage Canada kool-aid and the Canadian history lessons given to you in highschool and look at it all in perspective. It's an excellent thing and natural to be proud of your country but I've always felt the amount of resources and pressure to create and believe in some sense of nationalism and historical idenity rarely succeeds with any gravitas for a country of our youth, size, and of our cultural mix. I happen to have a political science degree which is honestly pretty useless in day to day life and maybe this makes me jaded in my dim view of Canada "trying too hard" to forge an identity from less significant things by exaggerating their importance.
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I have a history degree, specializing in Canadian and European history. It too is pretty much useless in day to day life -- except for the fact that it gives me the ability to look beyond face value and understand why things like knowing the name of our first prime minister is important.
To come out and state that knowing background knowledge of Canada is pointless rankels me. It really surprises me that someone with a Poli Sci degree would hold that opinion as well.
We could debate any of the small factoids to death, but in the end, we are better off knowing about them. And that is the only point I was making. Your original post was a tad dramatic.