You know I find this a cool idea, but I feel bad for a culture so controlled that you have to find specialized outlets for all range of behaviors. It makes me appreciate our country even more, no matter how prudish or judgmental our culture is. At the very least you can dress and act how you want in public with out as much as a backlash as I think the Japanese get.
I actually like how America values the person over the group. I'd go crazy in a place like Japan.
Although I don't think I could handle the group mentality, I also don't think America is the best example of acceptance of individuality. As much as we'd like to believe we are.
Canada maybe? Though, we have our own identity problems in Quebec along with language extremists and the language gestapo as I like to call them. Mind, I'll have to admit, I'm a victim of the so-called Quebec-identity crisis too:
There are the pur-laine (pure wool) types who claim to be able to trace their family history back to New France (and France) and are elitist when it comes to applying the title 'Quebecois' to. And then there's just us, the new generation--Quebecers of mixed ancestry who get shafted by the pur-lainers who believe 3rd or 4th Gen Canadians from Quebec, aren't Quebecois. It's crazy stuff but not as bad as it used to be.
So the separatists think that by allowing English in schools and bilingualism will harm the Quebec culture and the French language which they proclaim is 'under threat of extinction'.
Yes. Crazy stuff. I try to ignore them.
But, er, Canada as a whole --though needing some more improvements since it's not as HEY as it used to be-- isn't a melting pot, but a multi-cultural quilt or kaleidoscope. The idea was that cultures from around the world should be able to coexist here and everyone should treat the other as an equal and not discriminate. (big movement--the kaleidoscope thing--in the 70s and 80s)
Yeah, I doubt ANY place it perfect, but I don't think any locations with as much say...homophobia, for example as the US can claim utter acceptance. Canda, England from what I know of it seem a lot closer to the ideal...
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penguinfaery) wrote2008-02-29 02:55 pm
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I actually like how America values the person over the group. I'd go crazy in a place like Japan.
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along with language extremists and the language gestapo as I like to call them. Mind, I'll have to admit, I'm a victim of the so-called Quebec-identity crisis too:There are the pur-laine (pure wool) types who claim to be able to trace their family history back to New France (and France) and are elitist when it comes to applying the title 'Quebecois' to. And then there's just us, the new generation--Quebecers of mixed ancestry who get shafted by the pur-lainers who believe 3rd or 4th Gen Canadians from Quebec, aren't Quebecois. It's crazy stuff but not as bad as it used to be.
So the separatists think that by allowing English in schools and bilingualism will harm the Quebec culture and the French language which they proclaim is 'under threat of extinction'.
Yes. Crazy stuff. I try to ignore them.
But, er, Canada as a whole --though needing some more improvements since it's not as HEY as it used to be-- isn't a melting pot, but a multi-cultural quilt or kaleidoscope. The idea was that cultures from around the world should be able to coexist here and everyone should treat the other as an equal and not discriminate. (big movement--the kaleidoscope thing--in the 70s and 80s)
Whoops, too long D:
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