A statement of purpose
Nov. 30th, 2013 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineThere's this group on Facebook that I signed up with. It's one of hundreds that have caught my eye to varying degrees since I was talked into joining Facebook. It's devoted to promoting and supporting the arts and culture of my home country.
Recently, this one fellow's been popping up this past week or two and making noises about how we've expanded our horizons as a nation too far for their liking. Anglophilic, Monarchist, doesn't think we know how good our ancestors - of the proper ethnic extractions, of course! - had it back in the 19th Century and that we threw away too much.
I don't agree with that.
So I wrote the following by way of reply:
I was born in the age of the Maple Leaf, the Pearson Pennant.
Multiculturalism, diversity...these are part of my birthright as a Canadian: the opportunity to learn from the histories, the languages, the traditions of the First Nations of this land, and those of the nations beyond the borders of this land as well.
The chance to try to take the best of all of those and learn to build something upon them for those who come after me. Even if they never learn my own name and story.
I am not a subject of any empire. I am a Canadian citizen. By birth and by choice.
And that is one of the reasons why I am here in this group.
So...did I go too far there?
Recently, this one fellow's been popping up this past week or two and making noises about how we've expanded our horizons as a nation too far for their liking. Anglophilic, Monarchist, doesn't think we know how good our ancestors - of the proper ethnic extractions, of course! - had it back in the 19th Century and that we threw away too much.
I don't agree with that.
So I wrote the following by way of reply:
I was born in the age of the Maple Leaf, the Pearson Pennant.
Multiculturalism, diversity...these are part of my birthright as a Canadian: the opportunity to learn from the histories, the languages, the traditions of the First Nations of this land, and those of the nations beyond the borders of this land as well.
The chance to try to take the best of all of those and learn to build something upon them for those who come after me. Even if they never learn my own name and story.
I am not a subject of any empire. I am a Canadian citizen. By birth and by choice.
And that is one of the reasons why I am here in this group.
So...did I go too far there?