Hello my Edmonton sister, haha. I've been thinking about this a lot since moving to Australia. The funny thing is that when even Trudeau says we agree on values - that *is* Canadian culture. When I think of it, I think we're generally welcoming, polite, laidback, we value hard work and individualism but it's balanced with valuing community and helping each other. We have national symbols, everything from maple leaves to hockey to beavers, and those things are common across the country. I think saying we don't have a culture ignores what a culture is - all it is is general, overarching practices and attitudes. Everything from most shops closing at 9 on weekdays, to getting paid overtime on public holidays, to driving on the right side of the road - that's all culture. Lots of us do have influences from other cultures - for me, my mom is from Netherland and I grew up with some things that aren't mainstream. But it doesn't mean I need some different label. I'm Canadian. If I went to Netherland, I'd be lost. Knowing a few Dutch songs, foods, or traditions would not be nearly enough for me to fit in with all the little daily things that go on. We fixate on those heritage things from other countries, without recognizing that our culture actually is still Canadian, because we're focused so much on *material* culture and not overall culture, and on all the benefits immigration brings while downplaying what's already been built here. As for differences - every country has differences within the population. It doesn't mean it's a crisis, or that we don't have an identity. The way I see it, any identity crisis we have comes from not recognizing our commonalities, or how we differ from other places, or how literally every other country on earth has subcultures and diversity within them. Like, we have regional differences - so does every country, doesn't mean they have no culture. And even our regional differences are *our* regional differences, based on *our* history.
All three interviewees comments and observations are spot on. Another good way to see how Canada is actually "Canada" is to compare it to other countries, particularly countries that are (and were) part of the Commonwealth, countries that have adopted (or started with and have since modified... I'm looking at you US) British Common Law.
As a credit to the creator - I like the passion you carried out through your video in getting on a mass phenomena in general. We need this way of scrutinizing things in our modern world such badly, that it would be nearly a crime to not mention steps towards that direction. Yet I think people are much too involved in their official identity. I can understand the matter and source of it, as illusion is everything for a big part of the world and humankind love to worship it. And that's all it is. An illusion we allow ourselves to put way too much attention on and energy in, while at the same time this proofs what power lies within the fact of mass imagination/belief. I'd claim the thing is... As long as we keep seperating each other to "from there" or "from that far away", as well as "looking like from there" we keep dealing with superficial, irrelevant fights that just keeps on deviding people more and more. We keep playing dual party competitions and belief this is the only way how the world is driven onwards. We have multiple psychic real life games right next to the country identity game. It's about opposing religions, opposing countries, opposing genders, policies, ways of live and last, but not least the opposing experiences of so called "urge for validity" that makes us crashing into each other on a very daily, personal-basic level without a serious need to. Except the one of being driven by an ego or drive another one's violating ego from your personal space (which boundaries are a matter of wise definition, not the "felt" one). Mostly there's one extreme fighting another until and beyond bottomless loss of niveau in the process. As much as I like the fact that ppl are (sometimes successfully) trying to get a glance of "the system beyond the theatre stage", I cannot take national identity issues for serious, like any of the described dual wars above, but let's stick for that one this moment: I witnessed to be a main issue in countries in which its people very much identify with their own nation. In my (first world) country I grew up with in a non-digital age with a loud and strong absence of national identity. By the way, wether me, nor any of my ancestors were i.e. immigrants that has been declined because of their origin, just in case this is could've grown as a "but"-outcome of this theory. And guess what, if you strip away that layer of criteria, there's just another already sitting below (to be stripped away, as a investigative movement forward). This layer is simply a large placeholder for "accepted conventional" thinking as a public mass and the feeling of "public comfort as being part of a mass with limited access to" or in short: A human's ego loooves it to be part of an publicly announcedm closed elite society with strong acceptance-regulations. This is why our ego should be seperated in our thoughts from other aspects that are a much larger part of us. Ppl say there's none, just a mix of emotions forming the "me"-mixtape. It is not. The thing is that you won't experience the much larger part of this case as long as you're part of an ego-society and feel comfortable with it. So how you should look like, behave/act and live your life. So national identity is more a behaviour control regulation. This is totally unnecessary from a distanced POV. We need to ask for the bigger picture instead of getting lost in detail games that keeps us from recognizing how trivial our personal fights are, compared to the course humankind is facing meanwhile with leaders that aren't introduced to us since more than a hundred years anymore, while introducing us to fake leaders through media that might have been elected to keep the mass of average thinking/caring capacity calm that way. Wrapped in a gloryous gift paper, all shiny and entertaining, while secretly awaiting the mud battle to be started, for all the dirty details to be revealed from a publicly presented candidate. This is entertainment on a basic level that's still sold as bonedry reality. And it is for all that don't ask for the backgrounds or have a look at the shareholders the TV shows and news media companies are belonging to. This is nothing new for most of us meanwhile: The number of those roof-companies is definitely much smaller as one might think and is connected in ways you might not think. We're in a state of constant, psychological warfare, but with its main propaganda being effective enough to keep us one, busy and two, thinking that it's all shiny if we just behave like the 'controllable' mass around us. There's a bunch more to say about that, but in the end I think this is enough root-diving for this symptom. I understand, that this video is a contribution for ppl stuck in this problem loop in a everyday cicle for a individual (long till felt-long) time span, when it comes to witness and decline/accept their experienced environment and its course of change. But this is a very superficial thing still. It draws too much attention from learning to know your 'self', being able to tell ego apart from the diverse, much bigger parts of instances a human mind is based on. To finally tell ego driven, propagandic/illusionary (re)actions apart from real, problem solving ones that proof to be reasonable when looking back. Release yourself from being a mixture within a mass of mixtures. Overcome the fear for being lonely, learn to know yourself without external distraction and evolve, like we stopped doing for several hundred years as a mass. Life is no hype-to-hype party train. And it is no workaholic assembly line also. Both are against opposing extremes (like the ones mentioned in the beginning) that deceives or "bends the light" around an important realization by distracting with topics and "threads" that trigger lower, emotional EGO areals. I see the problem of "trying". Be it in big scales or just in a personal experience: If this swap to investigate ourselves as a person isn't performed the time it needs to grow, it's simply going to be a disaster. If not, this already would've happened much more frequently and in larger scales already. So it's fear again that keeps people in line and away from their "selves" in a "self"-understanding that's been defined by - let's call them - 'society architects' that defined the content of school literature and thus are with the main influence for our psychic judgement nowadays. The better you were in adapting those topics at school, the better your ability may be to adapt to the mass and to be open for indoctrination in a susceptible way. On the other hand: the more you get lost in isolation from the (questionable) "joy of being part of the mass", the more you grow frustration and feed the hate-seed of your ego partition, while narrowing your field of view and limit the ability to change the point of view it into a more empathic one. The willingness and impulse to "want to understand" the person in front of you is key for building bridges, instead of digging a canyon between each other that would do a practical, great grave in the end for all of us, while leaving the ones behind alive that profits from that micro wars between the masses. - Learn to know yourself. - Share experiences without(!) becoming arrogant or offensive. (Satisfaction through arrogance is a beloved reward your Ego uses to seduce you in behaving like a lecturer if you try to share knowledge that's basic to you atm) - Recognize the situation from an upper point of view when you are about to get triggered by ego-wars topics. - But most importantly: Don't get stuck in superficial issues, (aka "distractions to keep your mind busy with less important things") they will keep on consuming time and energy until you're frustrated and sucked dry, causing you to become imprisoned in the concept of triggering other people in order to make them feel as frustrated and exhausted as you are. (Pandemic behaviour) To trace my own steps, I'm aware of those things and the fact that I myself may not be able to handle them every moment in my life, but I'm working on it to master that way. And I guess that's all you can hope for, when looking at the limitatioin of a human being at this snapshot.
Believing in yourself is a powerful message, and an important first step towards resolving one's identity crisis. But I don't think it addressed what this video was eluding to, which is inquiring on how the Canadian identity should evolve going forwards? What is a way of thinking about our nation so that all experiences are considered valid Canadian culture? If you think we stand strong as a divided unified country... Just wait until a real eco-political threat is imposed on "Canadians". Individualism and self-belief won't be enough.
If you allow me, and as some of your guests have asked you, I would like to get your answers for the following questions? (You can use a scale of 1-10 with 1 being less likely and 10 most likely) Would you have the tendency to: 1- Refer to Canadians as “My Family”? 2- Refer to a random person in the street as “Brother” / “Sister”? 3- Make a huge self-sacrifice for the public good? 4-Would you risk your life and fight a war to defend this country?
Canadians do share a mindset that speaks to their values, open-mindedness, diversity, tolerance, willingness to learn from "the other". They're generally characterized as friendly, intelligent, considerate, and easy-going. Canadians take pleasure in the simple things in life, and have higher tolerances to cold weather. Immigrant children are growing up and will transition Canada into a new age when they make their mark and redefine what it means to be a good person. People like you will become leaders and role model what it means to be a citizen of the globe. An Earthing, not merely from an environmental perspective but one that accounts for all lifestyles. Don't worry about fitting in or feeling different. You are more Canadian than you know, and you will make Canada into something people wouldn't have been able to imagine because they can't see things from you're blessed duo-cultural perspective. Continue to be proud of who you are, and all the answers will reveal themselves along the way. Live strong and prosper!
In 2004 I wrote a somewhat famous article called 'Top 8 reasons not to immigrate to Canada'. In short, the Canadian authorities tried to destroy my life. They made it so that I could not be employable in Canada. So I moved to the U.S. in 2005 and then some years later I moved permanently to the Philippines. I am happy that so many years later videos like yours are saying essentially the same things that I did. I was ahead of my time. I will never go back to Canada. Not to live, not to visit, not even a connecting flight. Too cold, too expensive, taxes are astronomical, no culture, no freedom, no jobs, no opportunities, only modern slavery, worst healthcare system, unbearable political correctness, crime infested/drug infested, xenophobic people, too depressing. It has become a North Korea style dictatorship in the western world. There are many reasons why Canada has fallen apart. But the number one reason is ‘multiculturalism’. My friends, multiculturalism simply does not work. Different cultures do not come together and mix, different cultures come together and clash. The world is divided into different countries for a reason: because people hate each other and only want to be with their own kind. The number two reason for Canada’s demise is ‘socialism’. In this modern era of aging populations, it is mathematically impossible for socialism to continue. The government does not have the money to take care of old people and provide healthcare, pensions, welfare, unemployment benefits, disability benefits and the numerous other programs, even with the astronomical taxation that burdens hard working Canucks. Well Canada, you had a good run. Time for Canucks to move to an emerging country. We welcome you here in Southeast Asia. Multiculturalism destroys the fabric and identity of a country. Socialism bankrupts a country.
Here is a key question for you to answer, Darshina, that will reveal how loyal you are to Canada: If a major war broke out between India and Canada, and all people your age were required to fight that war, would you want to fight for Canada or India? If your answer is not Canada, then I don't think you are Canadian.
lets see you answer the same question about the European country your folks are from. I bet if Albertans were polled about this vs the US, they would mostly choose the US.
If you are not at least partially Anglo-Celtic or French you're not a true Canadian. Given the fact that you are brown, likely Middle Eastern or south Asian descent, you are not a true Canadian. Same thing goes with America. If you are not at least partially North West European descendent, you're not a true American. Notable exceptions to the African American community. Native do not count for either America or Canada because they are literally different nations of people. America and Canada are European settler nations, and natives are well...Native Amerindian nations. Thats why they have their own reservations.
A minute into your video, you said that you can't give a number to a thing like Canadian-ness. Then at the end of this video, you asked all three people to give you a percentage grade of your Canadian-ness. Wtf, Darshina?
Dashina is Canadian boomers like her vids
Hello my Edmonton sister, haha. I've been thinking about this a lot since moving to Australia. The funny thing is that when even Trudeau says we agree on values - that *is* Canadian culture. When I think of it, I think we're generally welcoming, polite, laidback, we value hard work and individualism but it's balanced with valuing community and helping each other. We have national symbols, everything from maple leaves to hockey to beavers, and those things are common across the country. I think saying we don't have a culture ignores what a culture is - all it is is general, overarching practices and attitudes. Everything from most shops closing at 9 on weekdays, to getting paid overtime on public holidays, to driving on the right side of the road - that's all culture.
Lots of us do have influences from other cultures - for me, my mom is from Netherland and I grew up with some things that aren't mainstream. But it doesn't mean I need some different label. I'm Canadian. If I went to Netherland, I'd be lost. Knowing a few Dutch songs, foods, or traditions would not be nearly enough for me to fit in with all the little daily things that go on. We fixate on those heritage things from other countries, without recognizing that our culture actually is still Canadian, because we're focused so much on *material* culture and not overall culture, and on all the benefits immigration brings while downplaying what's already been built here.
As for differences - every country has differences within the population. It doesn't mean it's a crisis, or that we don't have an identity. The way I see it, any identity crisis we have comes from not recognizing our commonalities, or how we differ from other places, or how literally every other country on earth has subcultures and diversity within them. Like, we have regional differences - so does every country, doesn't mean they have no culture. And even our regional differences are *our* regional differences, based on *our* history.
Eh, sorry, wanna smoke weed? Definitely a large part of how the world sees Canada.
All three interviewees comments and observations are spot on. Another good way to see how Canada is actually "Canada" is to compare it to other countries, particularly countries that are (and were) part of the Commonwealth, countries that have adopted (or started with and have since modified... I'm looking at you US) British Common Law.
Agreed. Being Canadian is defined as "NOT being an American".
Great video. Thank you!
As a credit to the creator - I like the passion you carried out through your video in getting on a mass phenomena in general. We need this way of scrutinizing things in our modern world such badly, that it would be nearly a crime to not mention steps towards that direction.
Yet I think people are much too involved in their official identity. I can understand the matter and source of it, as illusion is everything for a big part of the world and humankind love to worship it. And that's all it is. An illusion we allow ourselves to put way too much attention on and energy in, while at the same time this proofs what power lies within the fact of mass imagination/belief.
I'd claim the thing is... As long as we keep seperating each other to "from there" or "from that far away", as well as "looking like from there" we keep dealing with superficial, irrelevant fights that just keeps on deviding people more and more. We keep playing dual party competitions and belief this is the only way how the world is driven onwards. We have multiple psychic real life games right next to the country identity game. It's about opposing religions, opposing countries, opposing genders, policies, ways of live and last, but not least the opposing experiences of so called "urge for validity" that makes us crashing into each other on a very daily, personal-basic level without a serious need to. Except the one of being driven by an ego or drive another one's violating ego from your personal space (which boundaries are a matter of wise definition, not the "felt" one). Mostly there's one extreme fighting another until and beyond bottomless loss of niveau in the process.
As much as I like the fact that ppl are (sometimes successfully) trying to get a glance of "the system beyond the theatre stage", I cannot take national identity issues for serious, like any of the described dual wars above, but let's stick for that one this moment: I witnessed to be a main issue in countries in which its people very much identify with their own nation. In my (first world) country I grew up with in a non-digital age with a loud and strong absence of national identity. By the way, wether me, nor any of my ancestors were i.e. immigrants that has been declined because of their origin, just in case this is could've grown as a "but"-outcome of this theory. And guess what, if you strip away that layer of criteria, there's just another already sitting below (to be stripped away, as a investigative movement forward). This layer is simply a large placeholder for "accepted conventional" thinking as a public mass and the feeling of "public comfort as being part of a mass with limited access to" or in short: A human's ego loooves it to be part of an publicly announcedm closed elite society with strong acceptance-regulations. This is why our ego should be seperated in our thoughts from other aspects that are a much larger part of us. Ppl say there's none, just a mix of emotions forming the "me"-mixtape. It is not. The thing is that you won't experience the much larger part of this case as long as you're part of an ego-society and feel comfortable with it.
So how you should look like, behave/act and live your life. So national identity is more a behaviour control regulation. This is totally unnecessary from a distanced POV. We need to ask for the bigger picture instead of getting lost in detail games that keeps us from recognizing how trivial our personal fights are, compared to the course humankind is facing meanwhile with leaders that aren't introduced to us since more than a hundred years anymore, while introducing us to fake leaders through media that might have been elected to keep the mass of average thinking/caring capacity calm that way. Wrapped in a gloryous gift paper, all shiny and entertaining, while secretly awaiting the mud battle to be started, for all the dirty details to be revealed from a publicly presented candidate.
This is entertainment on a basic level that's still sold as bonedry reality. And it is for all that don't ask for the backgrounds or have a look at the shareholders the TV shows and news media companies are belonging to. This is nothing new for most of us meanwhile: The number of those roof-companies is definitely much smaller as one might think and is connected in ways you might not think.
We're in a state of constant, psychological warfare, but with its main propaganda being effective enough to keep us one, busy and two, thinking that it's all shiny if we just behave like the 'controllable' mass around us.
There's a bunch more to say about that, but in the end I think this is enough root-diving for this symptom.
I understand, that this video is a contribution for ppl stuck in this problem loop in a everyday cicle for a individual (long till felt-long) time span, when it comes to witness and decline/accept their experienced environment and its course of change. But this is a very superficial thing still. It draws too much attention from learning to know your 'self', being able to tell ego apart from the diverse, much bigger parts of instances a human mind is based on. To finally tell ego driven, propagandic/illusionary (re)actions apart from real, problem solving ones that proof to be reasonable when looking back. Release yourself from being a mixture within a mass of mixtures. Overcome the fear for being lonely, learn to know yourself without external distraction and evolve, like we stopped doing for several hundred years as a mass. Life is no hype-to-hype party train. And it is no workaholic assembly line also. Both are against opposing extremes (like the ones mentioned in the beginning) that deceives or "bends the light" around an important realization by distracting with topics and "threads" that trigger lower, emotional EGO areals.
I see the problem of "trying". Be it in big scales or just in a personal experience: If this swap to investigate ourselves as a person isn't performed the time it needs to grow, it's simply going to be a disaster. If not, this already would've happened much more frequently and in larger scales already. So it's fear again that keeps people in line and away from their "selves" in a "self"-understanding that's been defined by - let's call them - 'society architects' that defined the content of school literature and thus are with the main influence for our psychic judgement nowadays. The better you were in adapting those topics at school, the better your ability may be to adapt to the mass and to be open for indoctrination in a susceptible way. On the other hand: the more you get lost in isolation from the (questionable) "joy of being part of the mass", the more you grow frustration and feed the hate-seed of your ego partition, while narrowing your field of view and limit the ability to change the point of view it into a more empathic one. The willingness and impulse to "want to understand" the person in front of you is key for building bridges, instead of digging a canyon between each other that would do a practical, great grave in the end for all of us, while leaving the ones behind alive that profits from that micro wars between the masses.
- Learn to know yourself.
- Share experiences without(!) becoming arrogant or offensive. (Satisfaction through arrogance is a beloved reward your Ego uses to seduce you in behaving like a lecturer if you try to share knowledge that's basic to you atm)
- Recognize the situation from an upper point of view when you are about to get triggered by ego-wars topics.
- But most importantly: Don't get stuck in superficial issues, (aka "distractions to keep your mind busy with less important things") they will keep on consuming time and energy until you're frustrated and sucked dry, causing you to become imprisoned in the concept of triggering other people in order to make them feel as frustrated and exhausted as you are. (Pandemic behaviour)
To trace my own steps, I'm aware of those things and the fact that I myself may not be able to handle them every moment in my life, but I'm working on it to master that way. And I guess that's all you can hope for, when looking at the limitatioin of a human being at this snapshot.
Believing in yourself is a powerful message, and an important first step towards resolving one's identity crisis. But I don't think it addressed what this video was eluding to, which is inquiring on how the Canadian identity should evolve going forwards? What is a way of thinking about our nation so that all experiences are considered valid Canadian culture? If you think we stand strong as a divided unified country... Just wait until a real eco-political threat is imposed on "Canadians". Individualism and self-belief won't be enough.
Your 100% Canadian!!! ❤️❤️
If you allow me, and as some of your guests have asked you, I would like to get your answers for the following questions?
(You can use a scale of 1-10 with 1 being less likely and 10 most likely)
Would you have the tendency to:
1- Refer to Canadians as “My Family”?
2- Refer to a random person in the street as “Brother” / “Sister”?
3- Make a huge self-sacrifice for the public good?
4-Would you risk your life and fight a war to defend this country?
Canadians do share a mindset that speaks to their values, open-mindedness, diversity, tolerance, willingness to learn from "the other". They're generally characterized as friendly, intelligent, considerate, and easy-going. Canadians take pleasure in the simple things in life, and have higher tolerances to cold weather.
Immigrant children are growing up and will transition Canada into a new age when they make their mark and redefine what it means to be a good person. People like you will become leaders and role model what it means to be a citizen of the globe. An Earthing, not merely from an environmental perspective but one that accounts for all lifestyles. Don't worry about fitting in or feeling different. You are more Canadian than you know, and you will make Canada into something people wouldn't have been able to imagine because they can't see things from you're blessed duo-cultural perspective. Continue to be proud of who you are, and all the answers will reveal themselves along the way. Live strong and prosper!
In 2004 I wrote a somewhat famous article called 'Top 8 reasons not to immigrate to Canada'. In short, the Canadian authorities tried to destroy my life. They made it so that I could not be employable in Canada. So I moved to the U.S. in 2005 and then some years later I moved permanently to the Philippines. I am happy that so many years later videos like yours are saying essentially the same things that I did. I was ahead of my time. I will never go back to Canada. Not to live, not to visit, not even a connecting flight. Too cold, too expensive, taxes are astronomical, no culture, no freedom, no jobs, no opportunities, only modern slavery, worst healthcare system, unbearable political correctness, crime infested/drug infested, xenophobic people, too depressing. It has become a North Korea style dictatorship in the western world.
There are many reasons why Canada has fallen apart. But the number one reason is ‘multiculturalism’. My friends, multiculturalism simply does not work. Different cultures do not come together and mix, different cultures come together and clash. The world is divided into different countries for a reason: because people hate each other and only want to be with their own kind. The number two reason for Canada’s demise is ‘socialism’. In this modern era of aging populations, it is mathematically impossible for socialism to continue. The government does not have the money to take care of old people and provide healthcare, pensions, welfare, unemployment benefits, disability benefits and the numerous other programs, even with the astronomical taxation that burdens hard working Canucks. Well Canada, you had a good run. Time for Canucks to move to an emerging country. We welcome you here in Southeast Asia.
Multiculturalism destroys the fabric and identity of a country. Socialism bankrupts a country.
So many words to describe sour grapes.
I like the video
Here is a key question for you to answer, Darshina, that will reveal how loyal you are to Canada:
If a major war broke out between India and Canada, and all people your age were required to fight that war, would you want to fight for Canada or India? If your answer is not Canada, then I don't think you are Canadian.
Wow... You really went there, eh? Jesus...
lets see you answer the same question about the European country your folks are from. I bet if Albertans were polled about this vs the US, they would mostly choose the US.
If you are not at least partially Anglo-Celtic or French you're not a true Canadian. Given the fact that you are brown, likely Middle Eastern or south Asian descent, you are not a true Canadian. Same thing goes with America. If you are not at least partially North West European descendent, you're not a true American. Notable exceptions to the African American community. Native do not count for either America or Canada because they are literally different nations of people. America and Canada are European settler nations, and natives are well...Native Amerindian nations. Thats why they have their own reservations.
Based
A minute into your video, you said that you can't give a number to a thing like Canadian-ness. Then at the end of this video, you asked all three people to give you a percentage grade of your Canadian-ness. Wtf, Darshina?