抽 - can also mean "pulled" , as well as "suck" or "pump" .
象 - in 抽象 is "appearance, form, shape" , rather than elephant. (Don't know why they're the same character, I usually blame imperial name taboo because: why not?)
So 抽象, as abstract is the art sense rather than summary one. But since they're the same in English, taken across to be the same in Chinese (I guess, I don't know if papers in Chinese start with a 抽象), so "pulled-distorted form/appearance".
In modern day Canada there was much more cross cultural marriage and contact between the American Indians and settlers. You had larger Metis communities, and the settlers were fewer in number and lived in smaller settlements that had more day to day contact with American Indians. Meanwhile, in the 13 colonies, one of the key causes of the rebellion was that the British had ruled out colonial expansion west of the Appalachians. Also, by even this early point many Amerindian tribes had been pushed out of this eastern area, and were more seen as a threat than people to cohabit with.
More complex relations with the French:
The 13 Colonies were eager for French support against the British from an early point. However, a lot of modern day Canada had been French territory ceeded to the British following the 7 Years War, prior to which there had been much raiding and fighting between the French and British settlers and indeed allied Indian Nations.
Didn't have a new ruling elite in waiting to give it equal footing in an independent North America:
The colonial elite of the 13 colonies were much wealthier and generally better travelled and tied into global networks than the elite of the provinces in modern day Canada. They were further from being economically independent, and ceeding from Britain would have made them entirely dependent on the poorer, but much closer colonies to the south, which would've greatly limited their political power making them more client than fully independent.
So that's the longer version.
Please help correct my misunderstandings and mistakes.
As for why... Probably due to more complex relations with American Indians and the French, and didn't have a new ruling elite in waiting to give it equal footing in an independent North America.
Try getting some of the family members away from the others.
Help one of them in the kitchen, or nip to the shops with one, or find some activities where it is not everyone so that a few of them, and yourself, can better learn to interact together and get used to each others communication styles.
This'll make it easier when it's the big scramble of everyone talking over each other at the dinner table and the like.
But also, as others said: it's their family's time, you're a guest there. Just be grateful for being there as a part of it and challenge your negative feelings at the source.
When he was first in power, Xi painted himself as friendly and uncle like. His body shape and This attitude led to him being referred to as Winnie the Pooh in China to evade the auto censors on Chinese apps and services, which was then added to the censor list and it Streisland effected to where it is today.
The ethnic repression outside of Tibet is relatively new.
Most of it was sudden access to international capital as a new market with Deng's reforms and becoming the manufacturing hub of the world (with all the pollution and poor work conditions that came with it)... Unless your argument is that all people living in authoritarian regimes are functionally slaves in which case that's hyperbole that I think does a disservice to slavery be it chattle or the more traditional kinds (and note that the pyramids weren't built by slaves unlike the Great Wall).
Edit: I'd also dispute the economic miracle of Nazi Germany. They built up an economy based on sacrifice and war prep, but it ran out of steam in a handful of years and was close to collapse before the war even began.
Even allowing for a collapse of the Chinese economy sometime soon, that's orders of magnitude more successful with objectively less murder and ethnic cleansing (per capita) than the Nazis went for.
That's quite a few places.