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Originally Posted by btimbit
I work with a guy from Saudi Arabia. Last year was his first remembrance day in Canada. He asked what the red flower on my jacket was, so I explained to him about the symbolism it has from Belgium and Northern France, and the significance of 11:00am on Nov 11th.
The next day he'd bought his entire families poppies to wear
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This needs to be more of the conversation around this IMO
Do they know what this means in our culture? Have we told them?
This jives so much more with my experience with immigrants. I'm a pretty happy guy with Canada, but I usually can't hold a candle to their patriotism.