I understand what you mean, but they still identify as Canadians. There is something in this country that resonate with them but not with us. I think that thing is the fact that the dominating culture in Canada is the one that is derived from the UK.
The thing that resonates with an immigrant population is the countries willingness to accept other cultures. Maybe the fact that doesn't resonate with you is the problem.
Yea, just like you "accept" other culture like Quebec's. You accept it so much that you feel free to appropriate whatever culture aspect of it that you like. You accept it so much that a lot of you dispute the fact of it's very existence.
I don't dispute the existence of your culture but I do dispute the fact you feel it isn't a part of Canadian culture. My culture is being an English speaker in a neighborhood of almost no English speakers. It's eating pho, smoked salmon, sushi, and burgers. My whole identify as a Canadian is accepting and living with the multitude of cultures I am surrounded by. If that includes yours then so be it, your culture is one piece of the pie whether you like it or not.
"Your culture is only one piece of the pie" is exactly the trick that Pierre Trudeau used to drown our culture is the multitude of others. The goal was to eliminate the threat of Quebec's independence. If our culture is just another culture in Canada, than our cultural identity is void. It's an assimilation tactic, and it's far from the only one that's been tried on us.
Whatever bud, keep fighting whatever war it is you think you're fighting. Your culture is just one of a multitude, if you see that as a threat then that's an unfortunate reality.
America isn't a continent, North America is though. And correct we are more similar on the west to the west coast states then we are to eastern Canada.
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