How long till we see wide spread Sustenance hunting ?

blasted_saber said:
Amen to that.

Major pet peeve of mine is when someone born in Canada, whos parents or grandparents immigrated, still refers to themselves as from the old country. "Im Italian". "Im Serbian". "Im Indian". "Im German". "Im Polish". Im Chinese".

No. You're Canadian.
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Or when they brag about how things are better, " in their country" swim back to the good life. Lazy? Hop on a plane.
 
Ardent said:
One branch on my mother’s side were loyalists who first came to Canada in 1776, and had been in the United Colonies (precursor to the US) well before that. That makes me no more Canadian than my in-laws who were both born on opposite sides of the world in two different directions, and I love that about our country. That doesn’t make me a Liberal, Leftist, a Socialist, or even a latte drinker. It just makes me a content Canadian.

If it was all about blood spilled by ancestors you and I both have lost more ancestral blood to Europe than North America by a country mile. We all moved here once upon a time.
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I'm hopeful that any new Canadians pay homage to Canada and her values, principals, traditions, customs and heritage. Unfortunately, many who arrived have exploited the Canadian Constitutional of Rights and Freedoms; they are to adapt around us, not we around them.
 
That’s the popular conception of populists, it was railed against the Irish and Italians in recent history too. The reality, working with many and married to a first generation Canadian, is they’re by and large the hardest working and most appreciative people of what they have I’ve met. Many are doing jobs that a lot of people here would turn their nose up at, myself included. But the silent hard working majority are not the ones that get the press in the rebel media.
 
Damn near every group of immigrants has been loathed at some point, by the groups that came before. The French hated the English, who hated the Irish, the Scots, the Welsh, the Poles, Ukes, Russians, Mennonites, etc., etc...

It's a bit like how the "older" generation always complains about their children's generation (or younger generations, in general) being lazy/entitled, etc. I believe it was Socrates who started the trend, or at least wrote it down for posterity.
 
You don't need a license to harvest the Vietnamese tree rats around the lower mainland, so its not poaching.
 
blasted_saber said:
Amen to that.

Major pet peeve of mine is when someone born in Canada, whos parents or grandparents immigrated, still refers to themselves as from the old country. "Im Italian". "Im Serbian". "Im Indian". "Im German". "Im Polish". Im Chinese".

No. You're Canadian.
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Funny, in my experience that's mostly an Ontario thing, especially Southern. Some people have never got the message. :( They have a Belgian Hall in Delhi. I came here as a kid, from Germany, I speak the language and still have relatives there, but that's the limit of my ties to the "Old Country" . I have yet to meet a Chinese who brags about good it is in China, they're about as integrated as can be be and happy to be away from there.

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Grizzly Adams said:
Funny, in my experience that's mostly an Ontario thing, especially Southern. Some people have never got the message. :( They have a Belgian Hall in Delhi. I came here as a kid, from Germany, I speak the language and still have relatives there, but that's the limit of my ties to the "Old Country" . I have yet to meet a Chinese who brags about good it is in China, they're about as integrated as can be be and happy to be away from there.

Grizz
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but you still have chinese market, restaurant etc ... coming from another country doesnt mean you cut it all ...
 
Dances with Drahts said:
Or when they brag about how things are better, " in their country" swim back to the good life. Lazy? Hop on a plane.
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X2.

And I'm second generation.

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At the extreme risk of being premature I’m so far not becoming concerned with these death numbers. Even 500,000 globally is a fractional number, and we’re only soon cresting 30,000. Not at all diminishing the passing of those who’ve gone, that’s tragic, but this isn’t the Spanish Flu that’s for sure. Not yet anyways, hope that continues as what I’m seeing is encouraging. There will be an explosion of cases in the US, as they don’t take direction well, are afraid to go to the doctor, and have lots of obesity.

There will continue to be economic disruption, especially as it grips the US.
 
9.3mauser said:
But we're only a couple of months into it. The Spanish flu came in waves with the greatest death toll happening in the second wave in the fall of 1918.
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The good, or bad, news depending on how you look at it, is there's no reason to believe this is seasonal.
 
Ardent said:
I get a kick out of us in the west. We get a virus that kills 1% or less of victims that actually get it, and people stock up on guns, liquor, and toilet paper and talk every man for themselves. The power isn’t even out yet for Christ’s sakes. Send a hurricane to the southern states and looters go wild and martial law in the streets.

Meanwhile Japan gets a tsunami that utterly destroys a region and people work together in an orderly and cohesive manner to save each other and move forward. This is a test run for the real thing, call me optimistic but I think we’ll come out of this better not worse.

It’s going to take work, financial prudence, and common sense not guns. Those who think they’ll be mad max come summer are in for bitter disappointment and some of the statements I’m seeing won’t age well.
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So out of touch with reality and the bigger picture that there’s not much to say ..
 
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