• AgreeableLandscape☭M
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    4 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.