White Canadians and First Nations Canadians tend to tell different stories about how "chill" Canada is, I find. But as I'm neither First Nations nor Canadian, I can't speak for them.
I think the implication here is that I was parroting back the opinion of a white Canadian? My comment was very vague, because I don't think it's fair to say that the opinion of a single First Nations woman is representative of all First Nations people, and I didn't want to present my comment as "well if one First Nations person says it's okay than it must be". I mentioned it because it was, to me, an interesting comment, and I thought there might be a slight chance that someone else would have further insight. It's not exactly a vast readership here on one lone journal on Dreamwidth, but you never know.
There are plenty of harvest festivals left in the world that don't take active or passive pride in the genocide of a continent of people -- why is your own personal enjoyment of holiday food more important than that?
Shit, do I really come across as someone who's trying to say that my enjoyment of holiday food is more important than recognizing the reality of history? I'm trying to verbalize my issues with the holiday while acknowledging my conflicted relationship with it. It's an ongoing process of reflection and reevaluation, and obviously I've got a long way to go.
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White Canadians and First Nations Canadians tend to tell different stories about how "chill" Canada is, I find. But as I'm neither First Nations nor Canadian, I can't speak for them.
I think the implication here is that I was parroting back the opinion of a white Canadian? My comment was very vague, because I don't think it's fair to say that the opinion of a single First Nations woman is representative of all First Nations people, and I didn't want to present my comment as "well if one First Nations person says it's okay than it must be". I mentioned it because it was, to me, an interesting comment, and I thought there might be a slight chance that someone else would have further insight. It's not exactly a vast readership here on one lone journal on Dreamwidth, but you never know.
There are plenty of harvest festivals left in the world that don't take active or passive pride in the genocide of a continent of people -- why is your own personal enjoyment of holiday food more important than that?
Shit, do I really come across as someone who's trying to say that my enjoyment of holiday food is more important than recognizing the reality of history? I'm trying to verbalize my issues with the holiday while acknowledging my conflicted relationship with it. It's an ongoing process of reflection and reevaluation, and obviously I've got a long way to go.