This country was never bound by a single history. I can assure you that what I learned in school as a Franco ontarien differed somewhat from what you learned.
Franco-Canadians don't really exist. I know you exist as an individual. And the Constitution pays lip service to your theoretical existence. But you don't really. Case in point:
Until 1982, Canada attempted the assimilation of all Francos (and Indians too). It tried really hard, but it kinda failed, thanks in part to the Catholic Church. Post-1982, Canada carries out cultural disintegration via multiculturalism. The intended result is the same, except the Anglos are now also being erased. But! It is succeeding, at last.
Point is, there was a dual history, and it kept both nations alive, despite the ruling one's hostility. When the Francos gave up, they quickly got assimilated. Same fate is in store for Anglo Canada, and Quebec too, unless they change course.
That dual history is why I keep harping on the necessity for Canada to become a proper confederation to survive, otherwise it will always be conflicted between its irreconcilable identities, and attempt, even suicidally (as it does since 1982) to destroy the weaker one. Greater separation between the two nations would allow them to maintain their respective single history while still cooperating like good comrades.
Like what? Or is it a bit of a course correction? Acknowledging some uncomfortable truths about our history is actually better than pretending it isn’t real
No, there is so much that is amazing and exceptional and great about the history of Western civilization and we barely learn any of it, focusing on platitudes before quickly moving on to grievance politics.
Kids learn to hate their country much earlier than they learn it was our British Empire that abolished slavery at a global scale. In fact, they never learn that unless they have a particular, personal penchant for history.
There really isn't room for nuance when teaching millions of differently-abled and differently-interested kids. Either you teach them their elders were good or you teach them they were bad. What you teach those kids, btw, is also what you teach newcomers.
Critical theories have their place, but that's not being forced on kids (up to 25) who've never known anything other than school, and eat up anything they're told.
@RangerRay
Can you define this monstrosity a bit more? Hard to comment unless one knows how you define it.
I don't want to list examples, because it's been done upthread already, in fact this whole conversation is in reference to one such example (domestic violence between foreign ethnic groups), and doing so would just result in endless nitpicking that essentially amounts to burying one's head in the sand. But I think generally speaking, the regime of anarcho-tyranny is inevitable on this path. Western Europe and the USA demonstrate pretty well what advanced degeneration looks like. Going further on this topic would also excessively derail the thread, but I'd be happy to entertain it in DMs.
