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now this might be difficult to grasp as I'm trying to make it work as I type it so please!! bear with me!
I have nothing against people from other countries wanting to come to Canada and start a new life! All the Power to them!
I just seem to have noticed lately that our traditions and our way of life that many of us who are Born "Naturalized" Canadians are used to for a long time, seem to be disappearing or changing due to demands or new ideas or "politically correct" situations that have come up.
the biggest example I can think of is Christmas.
I am not sure exactly when the whole issue about "politically correct" Christmas issues started but I have never been so annoyed about it.
in the 1980's and early 90's.. I do not recall seeing stores forbidding the use of phrases such as "Merry Christmas!"
Signs and advertisements using the Word Christmas in it was pretty much all over.
Then something changed and now it's mostly "Happy Holidays!" Holiday cheer.. etc etc.
And not just in stores but I see it in neighborhoods too.
Houses all over, used to be decorated with lights and Christmas trees and you couldn't even see a house without something on it!
Now it's like maybe 3 or 4 houses.. all broke up around the street and a lot of them with nothing, and no signs of Christmas at all.
Christmas isn't the only area we see it in.
There's so much grief being made over almost everything!
Now careful people as I'm about to make a statement.. Not trying to single out anyone.
I am beginning to believe that people who are coming to this country and wanting to have our freedoms and live our world as we know it then turn around and want to change everything to be more like their own Homeland.
they get offended with everything that doesn't seem right to them! yet us Naturalized Canadians have been doing this for our entire lives and don't see the reason for the offense??
I almost wish that our country was like the USA.
where their motto seemed to be, "ya you can come to our Country, but then you become a Italian-American, or a German-American, or a South African-American.." millions of their immigrants who came over 100 years ago or earlier came to US and thy adopted their ways of life! they learned to become Americans instead of just living here and being themselves in every way.
it appears that in Canada, when an Immigrant comes to live in Canada, they bring their entire country with them and then it seems like they expect others to allow and respect their traditions while they don't want to respect ours.
now this might be difficult to grasp as I'm trying to make it work as I type it so please!! bear with me!
I have nothing against people from other countries wanting to come to Canada and start a new life! All the Power to them!
I just seem to have noticed lately that our traditions and our way of life that many of us who are Born "Naturalized" Canadians are used to for a long time, seem to be disappearing or changing due to demands or new ideas or "politically correct" situations that have come up.
the biggest example I can think of is Christmas.
I am not sure exactly when the whole issue about "politically correct" Christmas issues started but I have never been so annoyed about it.
in the 1980's and early 90's.. I do not recall seeing stores forbidding the use of phrases such as "Merry Christmas!"
Signs and advertisements using the Word Christmas in it was pretty much all over.
Then something changed and now it's mostly "Happy Holidays!" Holiday cheer.. etc etc.
And not just in stores but I see it in neighborhoods too.
Houses all over, used to be decorated with lights and Christmas trees and you couldn't even see a house without something on it!
Now it's like maybe 3 or 4 houses.. all broke up around the street and a lot of them with nothing, and no signs of Christmas at all.
Christmas isn't the only area we see it in.
There's so much grief being made over almost everything!
Now careful people as I'm about to make a statement.. Not trying to single out anyone.
I am beginning to believe that people who are coming to this country and wanting to have our freedoms and live our world as we know it then turn around and want to change everything to be more like their own Homeland.
they get offended with everything that doesn't seem right to them! yet us Naturalized Canadians have been doing this for our entire lives and don't see the reason for the offense??
I almost wish that our country was like the USA.
where their motto seemed to be, "ya you can come to our Country, but then you become a Italian-American, or a German-American, or a South African-American.." millions of their immigrants who came over 100 years ago or earlier came to US and thy adopted their ways of life! they learned to become Americans instead of just living here and being themselves in every way.
it appears that in Canada, when an Immigrant comes to live in Canada, they bring their entire country with them and then it seems like they expect others to allow and respect their traditions while they don't want to respect ours.