softrun wrote:
Frankly, I am tired of natives complaining, protesting, whining etc about white people, colonies, occupations, demanding apologies (and of course compensations)....If they wouldn't have been conquered by English speakers, they would have been conquered by French, Dutch, Spanish or some other seafaring/exploring nation. Maybe Russians or Chinese. They had better weapons and soldiers so they conquered. I, and many other immigrants have nothing to do with conquering, residential schools etc so we don't owe them anything. Today's taxpayers and government should stop paying and apologizing for the sins of the past.
If they don't want to celebrate a country that is paying their chiefs hundreds of thousands of (taxpayer's) dollars, well, fine. But don't interfere with me celebrating a country that got me out of a shithole war in Yugoslavia, that gave me future and freedom, a career where nobody cares about my religion, ethnicity, political thoughts etc. a country where I can vote without anybody looking over my shoulder. I could go on and on but I won't, I am going to raise a Canadian flag, celebrate and say thank you Canada.
This is not just a Canadian native thing. Here they want to call Australia Day, Invasion Day. Some liberal leaning local governments talked about hosting the celebration and fireworks on a separate day until the state govt stepped in and told them to pull their head in.
It's exactly as you say. The countries were going to be taken over eventually. I speculate that if the Chinese or Japanese got here first they would have been wiped out.
What's done is done, learn from it and move forward. The ones whinging the most about it are the generations far removed from the issues at hand. So many benefits are handed out and yet they still bite the hand that feeds them. For all their hatred of the 'white way' you don't see the young generation choosing to head back bush and reject it.
