Unfortunately, some have been known to take this a little too far. It's not that commonly heard of in canada, but our neighbours to the south are well known for blurring the line between pride and xenophobia. Far be it from me to tell them not to celebrate- even if I don't agree with a lot of their values, they are welcome to support as they please-but just because you love your country doesn't mean you have to put down others.
There is lots in the states to be proud of: a strong economy, family values, traditional mindsets, a bipartisan system (I don't really care about any of those but whatever). It's great that as a country they can be united and show their belief in all those things. Good on you. But if your celebrations of national heritage starts leaking into how bad mexico or canada are for not having those values, I'm starting to get bovvered.
Why can't you just be happy and proud of your country without putting down others? It's not as if on canada day we chat about how superior we are to the states... oh wait. yes we do. Evidently I'm in no position to slag the united states for, essentially, doing to canada what canada does to the states.
I've completely lost both my train of thought and my passion in that matter. Is it only me that happens to? I have so much emotion and thoughts about something, but then once I start writing I get ~300 words in and i've used it all up, so I just starting making stuff up and trying to keep it going. This is why most of my arguments start out strong and just die out at the end, much like this one.
But yeah. canada day *woooop* canada's a pretty good country. now if we just get stephen harper out of government for good, we'll be golden.
But Canada IS so much better than the States!
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Nahh, I'm kidding. Both have good and bad attributes. I agree with your opinions.
And I know what you mean with a topic dying out.
That just happened with the post I attempted to write today.