People are getting worked up over some small town's xenophobic town "welcome" message. ⇒
31 January 2007, lunch time
The irony here is that the people in this town have probably never actually had to deal with a clash of cultures, they're just talking out of their asses. I'm curious how xenophobic Canada gets the further away from the big cities you move.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
These people sound a little to the right, but I wouldn’t dismiss all of their ideas. There does need to be a balance to some of the special treatment that is given to religion. As I’ve noted before, I don’t care much for religion in any guise and I don’t support anything that gives religion any more substance.
On the other hand, where their “suggestions” start touching into human rights issues (which I like to, optimistically, truncate from religious freedoms) then I certainly could not support them.
by Victor on January 31 2007, 2:55 pm #
You don’t have to go too far out of the big cities. Ask me about the time my Uja ended up with some land in Meaford, Ontario because one of his clients owed him a lot of money and he took the land in payment.
He built a cottage on the land, and for the decade he had that land, he had no end to being treated like shit by his neighbours…who didn’t even bother to get to know his name…why bother learning someones name when you can just call them spic or wop instead. So, if they treat someone who is technically “white†this way, you can only imagine the welcome visible minorities might get out there…but, only if you’re planning to live there…they don’t care if you go up there to ski. Just don’t think about moving your ass there anytime soon.
Then I can tell you about the time I applied for a job in a school Georgetown where every single child was blonde. I had never been anywhere where there were only blonde people…and how the principal of that school insulted me, without even appearing to know that she did.
Listen, you don’t have to go far out of the big cities for xenophobia…it’s just a couple of kilometres away.
by Radmila on January 31 2007, 2:58 pm #
Parody is the sincerest form of flattery. I wish my French was better.
by ramanan on February 1 2007, 1:27 pm #