What did I just read?
Canada very specifically is not a nation-state. It's a post-colonial settler state and it's fundamentally weird and very suspicious to talk about the things you just did. In no way could you consider Canada, at any point in its history, to have "formed among groups of people who shared language, culture, history, and often religion." This is a truly wild reinterpretation of history.
All the anxieties of today have been had before - with jews and irish and poles and italians and ukrainians and japanese and chinese, and yet here we are, more prosperous and still existing after each "evil outsider" moral panic.
I think the "New World" or the Anglosphere's entire appeal to international immigration is the fact that they really aren't nationstates and you can leave quite a lot of that cultural identity baggage at the door and start again. Or bring it with you, who cares - it doesn't matter anyways since your kids won't hold onto it.
Canada very specifically is not a nation-state. It's a post-colonial settler state and it's fundamentally weird and very suspicious to talk about the things you just did. In no way could you consider Canada, at any point in its history, to have "formed among groups of people who shared language, culture, history, and often religion." This is a truly wild reinterpretation of history.
All the anxieties of today have been had before - with jews and irish and poles and italians and ukrainians and japanese and chinese, and yet here we are, more prosperous and still existing after each "evil outsider" moral panic.
I think the "New World" or the Anglosphere's entire appeal to international immigration is the fact that they really aren't nationstates and you can leave quite a lot of that cultural identity baggage at the door and start again. Or bring it with you, who cares - it doesn't matter anyways since your kids won't hold onto it.
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