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One would hope so, but I think people who find Trump alluring tend to vote (and think about politics) like sports fans as opposed to rational or self-interested actors. For them, feelings and fiction are more important than policy, facts, etc.

Your doubt is welcome. The history I was taught in ON in the aughts was terrible. Completely pro-colonialism when I was too young (and uninformed [by my education]) to know what that meant. Whether history curricula could be improved though is a separate topic.

It unclear why that would inspire 21st century resistance.

For one, the author highlights specific Canada vs US events, as found in the body of this post (last paragraph)

The article cited also doesn’t mention how significant this trend is.

Description is a useful precursor to quantification

This appears to be a thinly veiled attempt at making us into the US a different way by the kind of author that cries for statues.

I'm not sure what you mean. Care to explain? I think part of it is you think the author would (not) cry for the tearing down of confederate statues (or anyone with a bad ethical record by today's standards)

My goodness that comment is getting a lot of airplay. Again, the article provides data.

The first Canadian History Report Card, published in June 2009 by the Dominion Institute, found that only four provinces – Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Nova Scotia – required all high school students to take a mandatory Canadian history course. Most provinces and territories simply offered courses in social studies.

Co-authors of the report, Mark Chalifoux and J.D.M. Stewart, delivered a stern message. “As a country, we are letting our students down when it comes to educate them about Canada’s past,” they wrote in 2009 in The Globe and Mail. “ That remains true today.

I'm in Ontario, graduated high school in 2007. And my compulsory grade 10 history class was probably the least serious class in my whole high school curriculum. We watched the original Saw movie. In class. Don't ask me what it has to do with history, because I don't know either

Agreed, corporate social media carries a fair share of the blame. It's not just privileging right-wing view points over left-wing ones, but it's all about rage-farming, which is what right-wing politics has become. It's a double-whammy to push people right, especially young and/or under-informed people

We have analogues of Trump voters here too. They're unthinking, ignorant, and proud of it

This is why we complement anecdotal experience with polls. To be fair, most of these polls were conducted back in January

https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/43-percent-canadians-would-vote-be-american-if-citizenship-and-conversion-assets-usd-guaranteed

I'm not sure what word you're looking for but it probably isn't presupposition when the claim is backed by multiple polls. Care to expand?

While most polls suggest the vast majority of Canadian adults are resolute in resisting any such takeover, the younger generation (18-35) is much more inclined

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Fixed, thank you! Note to self: add image and then URL, if image doesn't auto-load with URL

Thanks. I'll give the rest of that BRICS Wikipedia page a glance over to find out more

Thanks for sharing your perspective :). I think Canada needs to pick options of strategic value, and in that sense I'd guess EU > BRICS for Canada but idk. Bolivia and Cuba are pretty nearby to Canada but otherwise I don't see the geographic argument so much

But why join BRICS over the EU? (asking because I don't know)

Care to explain that a bit? I'm not that familiar with BRICS beyond the first paragraph of its Wiki page

https://imgur.com/gallery/bugs-bunny-sawing-off-us-from-canada-x0hZLvF

You are correct. I'm not really much of a casual conversation person myself, so I don't think I'm the best person to moderate it. I moderate other communities and actively contribute to Lemmy. Someone else might see my comment and think, "hey I'd like to do that"

Posts like this are an indication we need a casual conversation community on lemmy.ca. This isn't a c/Canada post imo

If you get your Canadian news from an American owned propaganda network I think you have a very strong belief system and a very strong disregard, if not contempt, for facts. I think the ignorance makes them feel good, feel in control, feel coherent, and they are fanatics for it. Not rational actors. Not informed citizens. Fanatics. How else can "Fuck Trudeau" and the other glaringly false, overly simplistic, and/or ignorant Conservative talking points be so compelling to them?

Lyndon B. Johnson, former President of the US, hit the nail on the head in the 1960s. He's correct about people's thinking far beyond anti-Black racism amongst White people.

I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

@dwazou@lemm.ee this article, and McGill's medical program apparently, are very racist by Canadian standards. I don't think I've ever read something that icky in a racist way in a contemporary Canadian publication