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Originally Posted by you&me
Again, genuinely not trying to play this as a "gotcha", but I'm wondering if you - as someone I assume is more up to date on appropriateness of language than most - were aware of the offensiveness of "traditional"? Like, you knew and would have used "ancestral", had it not slipped your mind? Or is this new to you as well?
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It's definitely new. Like another poster, I recently took a course on indigenous cultural safety, which was curated by indigenous peoples, and "traditional" was used throughout the course IIRC.
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I think territorial acknowledgements were something recommended by First Nations as part of the move towards reconciliation, so not a white man's imposition. I've been a guest in meetings hosted by First Nations who do them to acknowledge other First Nations and the overlap of their ancestral and traditional lands.
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Right, but we both know "First Nations" aren't a collective, and some of the First Nations folks I know have very negative opinions regarding territory acknowledgements. I'm personally fine to do them, but they do feel like empty gestures if there is no intent for reconciliation, restorative justice, etc., from the people giving them.
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
There has to be some common identity that underpins the social contract though, right? IMO we are testing that limit pretty boldly with moves like this.
Canada lacks a basis for a social contract.
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I'm trying to understand what you're saying here. Are you implying that a social contract can't exist without a distinct, identifiable, and universally-shared nationalist identity?