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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I don't really believe you
No ####ing clue
I am proud of my Canadian Citizenship.
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I fully understand and I am proud of my Canadian citizenship and heritage as well. Perhaps though, can you see where I may be coming from?
You may not have a clue about what the thoughts, politics, cultural norms and more are from your native country and that is fine.
I can tell you without reservation that a lot of immigrants and people from immigrant backgrounds are looking at a lot of aspects of what is being discussed here in a completely different lens. Full stop. It's my social circle amongst all backgrounds and then some.
Speaking of my parents and grandparents who came to Canada, in the 50's, 60's, 70"s etc. The "type" of immigrants that generally arrived in larger numbers from places like Europe were the poorly educated, the farm workers, the laborer's, the people from the poor small towns and villages who were looking for a better life post WW2 disaster. It wasn't the highly educated and wealthy from the capitals of Europe that were fleeing.
Fast forward to a more modern Canada that has been bringing in 350-500k immigrants a year and who are primarily coming in and from what countries? There isn't a mass exodus of law, medical and engineering trained Europeans coming to Canada. There is a lot of what I described above but from regions like in Africa, the middle east, Asian, southeast Asia and more.
Generally speaking a lot of people whom I describe above may have more conservative, more culturally minded and traditional lines of thinking when it comes to LGBTQ rights, norms and ideas. It's not like there is a huge swaths of people coming from countries where they truly believe they own their wives, wives being plural, that they believe in this "Canadian concept" of 6 year old children choosing their gender with the help of Joe and Jane Canuck from Main Street Alberta.