On 30 September 2011 09:15, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking about in her blog. It is aggressive, it is alienating, and it is intimidating to others who may have useful and progressive ideas but are repeatedly seeing the opinions of others dismissed because they're women/not women or from the US/not from the US. The implication of your post is "if you're a woman from the US, your opinion is invalid.
I just want to point out quickly that I am not American, and my position on all these issues is actually a very Canadian one. Ray and Risker and other Canadians will recognize this.
Canada doesn't really feel itself to have a fixed national identity. We makes jokes about the fact that that IS our identity -- that we are continually renegotiating and stretching the boundaries of what it means to be Canadian. We believe our culture is the aggregation and accumulation of all the views and experiences and attitudes of our citizenry. Each wave of immigration --the French and the British, the Chinese, the Italians, the Indians, the Jamaicans, and so forth-- has influenced what Canada is, and how it understands itself.
That's what I'm used to, as a Canadian -- it's normal for me to listen to minorities and find ways to incorporate their perspectives into mine.
Thanks, Sue
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