• Raton_en_Criss
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    32 years ago

    Not just that, most part of ‘‘anglo canadian culture’’ isn’t from them, even the name, Canadian comes from Canadien, which before ww1 was only used to reffered to the French population of the country.

    • AgreeableLandscape☭M
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      2 years ago

      I mean, that’s par for the course for colonial countries. Basically imported European culture aimed at serving Europe. Real “Canadian culture” would be the extremely diverse spectrum of Indigenous customs and folklore.

      A large part of the colonisation strategy was to force native peoples to act and think like Europeans by snuffing out their own culture and installing a European one. And if you think the “think like” part is just hyperbole, that’s literally what converting natives to Christianity is, and it worked because a huge proportion if indigenous peoples are Christian today, and Latin America is now more Christian than modern Europe.