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Things I'm grateful to Canada for: • parliamentary democracy (a better stepping stone towards liquid democracy than the perverted joke of a system in the US) • the comparably limited role in offensive militarism (though that is changing for the worse) • abundance of, and prepensity towards, renewable energy • willingness to acknowledge and try to address historical and ongoing systemic injustices But—and this is crucial—I won't be celebrating Canada Day. Not because of the many many failings of Canada, from the rising corporate corruption of politics, increasing militarism of the police forces against citizens, or unfettered support for a genocidal regime. No, I won't celebrate Canada Day because the soul reason these kinds of holidays is to imbue nationalism into the citizenry. And that nationalism can be used to any means. You should always reject the urge to worship the idol of the state. It is always a revisionist idea of that country anyway. More thoughts below 👇
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People often, rightly so, are proud of the unique cultural elements of a country. These are worth celebrating. But the best celebration of those things is not the association of them with the flag of the country and some loose idea of Canadian-ness. Celebrate unique culture by learning about it, appreciating it, and helping to fund its preservation; and importantly, don't exploit it for your own means. Also...
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Kyle B
@kyb
I think there are alot of reasons to celebrate and many not to. I don’t see celebrating canada day as worshipping the state personally (Considering several levels of government have tried to cancel Canada Day celebrations). I do see it as being proud of my individual identity however What am I if i’m not Canadian?
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I'm celebrating other Canadians, not necessarily the state apparatus.
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Rica 🦾⚡️
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A good read. I move to Ontario from London, UK 🇬🇧 in 2 weeks. This post gave me an honest insight. A lot of ppl overseas glorify North America despite it having many flaws. I am going to start a new journey in my career and even though I’m excited I will move with caution.
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