Canada doesn’t matter to the rest of the world - and it’s our own fault

[Kirkhill]

Battle of Kandahar (1880) - Wikipedia

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[dimsum]

Unless you were a settler in a Conestoga wagon.

Well they didn’t specify whose Homeland.

Old poster from an Italian far-right-of-centre nationalist party (still exists, just under a slightly different name): "They suffered from immigration. Now they live on reserves. Think about it."
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Brought to you by the same party info-machine as this one -- polenta's a traditional northern Italian dish, when the League was about separating the north from the "lazier" south. Bottom line: "Proud of our traditions" ...
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Using food, of all things, as a dog whistle is hilarious. Very few foods are only from one place.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Like why a small town outside of Ottawa is named after a Mexican general who fought against the Texans in the 1800s. Almonte ON.

Or that little spot near Kirkland Lakey with the same name as the main bit of Nazi (as well as Sanskrit) heraldry.

Swastika, Ontario - Wikipedia

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[Kirkhill]

Comanches.
Americas first department of HomeLand Security.

In re Comanche -

The Comanche's autonym is nʉmʉnʉʉ, meaning "the human beings" or "the people".[3] The earliest known use of the term "Comanche" dates to 1706, when the Comanche were reported by Spanish officials to be preparing to attack far-outlying Pueblo settlements in southern Colorado.[10] The Spanish adopted the Ute name for the people: kɨmantsi (enemy) and spelled it the way they pronounced it in Spanish.[11] Before 1740, French explorers from the east sometimes used the name Padouca for the Comanche since it was already used for the Plains Apache and the French were not aware of the change of tribe in the region in the early 18th century.[1

Comanche - enemy of the Utes and Pueblos.

Pueblo people speak languages from four different language families, and each Pueblo is further divided culturally by kinship systems and agricultural practices, although all cultivate varieties of corn (maize).

Pueblo peoples have lived in the American Southwest for millennia and descend from the ancestral Puebloans.[3] The term Anasazi is sometimes used to refer to ancestral Pueblo people, but it is now largely avoided. Anasazi is a Navajo word that means Ancient Ones or Ancient Enemy, hence Pueblo peoples' rejection of it (see exonym).[4]

And the Navajo are Dene who called the existing people, pueblo in Spanish, the Anasazi or Ancient Enemy.

Navajo - Wikipedia

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And the Navajo are related to the Apache

In the 1770s, the Spanish sent military expeditions against the Navajo in the Mount Taylor and Chuska Mountain regions of New Mexico.[12]: 43–50  The Spanish, Navajo and Hopi continued to trade with each other and formed a loose alliance to fight Apache and Comanche bands for the next 20 years. During this time there were relatively minor raids by Navajo bands and Spanish citizens against each other.

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If there was one tribe you could have picked there are few that better exemplify how much of a cockup the old west was before the Cavalry arrived.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Mod note: Given the details being shared back & forth worth discussing on their own, I've moved the pro/anti-natalist posts to a new thread in Canadian Politics, given at least some of the solutions to increasing the birth rate are political.

Pro/Anti Child Bearing Policies (split from Canada doesn’t matter thread)

And immigration probably won't help much either.... Rural Canada’s Population To Continue Decline Without Immigration Policy Shift Canada’s rural communities will continue to face a population decline unless various levels of government make policy changes to direct immigrants to settle in...

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[daftandbarmy]

Using food, of all things, as a dog whistle is hilarious. Very few foods are only from one place.

'Krauts' enter the chat, followed by 'Frogs', 'Les Rosbeufs' etc etc

List of terms used for Germans​

Kraut is a German word recorded in English from 1918 onwards as a derogatory term for a German, particularly a German soldier during World War I. The term came up after the American entry into World War I, which followed the Turnip Winter and had resulted in the food trade stop for Germany through neutral states. The analogy of this term is the starving soldier of World War I, who ran out of supplies for a long war-period and needed to eat wild cabbage.

Before the Second World War the term was used in relation to cabbage, because anti-German boycotts and de facto trade limitations hit Germany's food imports. Early American war propaganda used the language in such a manner that 'Kraut' and 'Krauthead' gave the Germans less dignity.

In the 18th century, poor Swiss German immigrants to the US were described as Krauts because they consumed sauerkraut. Sauerkraut was also a common food served on German ships to fight scurvy, while the British used lime and got called limey. In Switzerland it was a food preserved for hard winters that could go on for half a year.

The stereotype of a sauerkraut-eating German appears in Jules Verne's depiction of the evil, German industrialist Schultze, who is an avid sauerkraut eater in The Begum's Fortune. Schultze's enemy is an Alsatian who hates sauerkraut but pretends to love it to win his enemy's confidence.

List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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[Rifleman62]

....provincial government of Vancouver/Victoria absolutely hates people in the interior...

Because hardly anyone with a brain votes NDP Provincially or Federally.

 

[Kirkhill]

'Krauts' enter the chat, followed by 'Frogs', 'Les Rosbeufs' etc etc

List of terms used for Germans​

Kraut is a German word recorded in English from 1918 onwards as a derogatory term for a German, particularly a German soldier during World War I. The term came up after the American entry into World War I, which followed the Turnip Winter and had resulted in the food trade stop for Germany through neutral states. The analogy of this term is the starving soldier of World War I, who ran out of supplies for a long war-period and needed to eat wild cabbage.

Before the Second World War the term was used in relation to cabbage, because anti-German boycotts and de facto trade limitations hit Germany's food imports. Early American war propaganda used the language in such a manner that 'Kraut' and 'Krauthead' gave the Germans less dignity.

In the 18th century, poor Swiss German immigrants to the US were described as Krauts because they consumed sauerkraut. Sauerkraut was also a common food served on German ships to fight scurvy, while the British used lime and got called limey. In Switzerland it was a food preserved for hard winters that could go on for half a year.

The stereotype of a sauerkraut-eating German appears in Jules Verne's depiction of the evil, German industrialist Schultze, who is an avid sauerkraut eater in The Begum's Fortune. Schultze's enemy is an Alsatian who hates sauerkraut but pretends to love it to win his enemy's confidence.

List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

And no proper Englishman would be caught dead eating garlic.....

Unless it is in Worcestershire or HP Sauces.

Until the EU forced us to list the ingredients on the sauces we were blissfully unaware that we were eating garlic on everything.

 

[daftandbarmy]

And no proper Englishman would be caught dead eating garlic.....

Unless it is in Worcestershire or HP Sauces.

Until the EU forced us to list the ingredients on the sauces we were blissfully unaware that we were eating garlic on everything.

And rice is only to be consumed as part of a dessert pudding, or a late night post-pub curry feast

 

[dimsum]

And rice is only to be consumed as part of a dessert pudding, or a late night post-pub curry feast

Ah yes - the British “national dish” of Chicken Tikka Masala…

 

[Kirkhill]

Ah yes - the British “national dish” of Chicken Tikka Masala…

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

How I Learned to Stop Hating and Respect Chicken Tikka Masala​

Invented in Glasgow in the 1970s, this fake Indian dish changed the British palate.

‘I thought it was a mistake’: top UK Indian chefs on chicken tikka masala

Top Indian chefs in the UK respect chicken tikka masala’s role in making British people huge fans of Indian food, even if they won’t serve it in their restaurants.

www.scmp.com

But not to worry....

Fish and chips voted Britain's 'national dish' beating chicken tikka

Fish and chips have officially regained the crown of Britain's most loved 'national dish', dethroning Chicken tikka masala after its 23-year rule.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Britain's Jewish national dish has displaced its Indian national dish.

And I do like a nice chutney with my cultural appropriations.

 

[RangerRay]

But what about roast beef?

BBC NEWS | UK | Why do the French call the British 'the roast beefs'?

 

[daftandbarmy]

But what about roast beef?

BBC NEWS | UK | Why do the French call the British 'the roast beefs'?

Hard to find in restaurants, paradoxically, as I recall

 

[Kirkhill]

Hard to find in restaurants, paradoxically, as I recall

Personally I have always been most partial to a glorious steak and kidney pie.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Personally I have always been most partial to a glorious steak and kidney pie.

The one dish I really enjoy in the UK, that you can't buy here, is venison.

It's available in a large number of the higher end places, as well as good pubs.

 

[Halifax Tar]

The one dish I really enjoy in the UK, that you can't buy here, is venison.

It's available in a large number of the higher end places, as well as good pubs.

You cant buy it, but if you know the right people we will give you venison and black bear to munch on. Although in trade I like to insist you accompany me on a future hunt. As I think the process of the hunt is as important as the sustenance it provides.

 

[MacNav63]

Bearbrook in Ottawa Products – Bearbrook Free Range and Grass Fed Meats & Game Meats Ottawa

 

[cavalryman]

Bearbrook in Ottawa Products – Bearbrook Free Range and Grass Fed Meats & Game Meats Ottawa

Can confirm. The place is an Ali Baba's cave of venison, bison, and exotic meats. I just love going there (and I'm overdue for a visit!)

 

[CountDC]

Leave me sauerkraut alone!! Goes with everything. Good alternative is Kimji to spice things up.

 

[FJAG]

Leave me sauerkraut alone!! Goes with everything. Good alternative is Kimji to spice things up.

Red cabbage ...... Mmmmmm ........