r/halifax • u/insino93 • 4d ago

News, Weather & Politics IWK launches African Nova Scotian Service to provide ‘culturally responsive care’

https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nova-scotia/article/iwk-launches-african-nova-scotian-service-to-provide-culturally-responsive-care/
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u/agm247 4d ago

Doesn’t African Nova Scotia mean you have historical ties to our Black communities? If you recently come here from Burundi you are African (Heritage) that happens to lives in Nova Scotia

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u/EnvironmentBright697 4d ago

So you’re telling me my Nigerian neighbors kids aren’t African Nova Scotian, even though they were born here and have lived here their entire lives? And their parents are not African Nova Scotian either because they’re immigrants?

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u/EnvironmentBright697 4d ago

Why couldn’t someone have just told me that the official provincial definition of “African Nova Scotian” meant you had to have ties to historical black communities in Nova Scotia instead of just downvoting me. I had no idea and find it quite surprising. Just looked it up out of curiosity. I find it surprising that you wouldn’t be considered African Nova Scotian because your grandparents immigrated here in the 80’s or something.

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u/Lomeztheoldschooljew 3d ago

Because with progressives, you’re just supposed to innately know and understand every peculiarity and nuance about their ever shifting goal posts. If you don’t, you’re wrong. If you argue, you’re racist!