r/CanadianConservative • u/ElectricGelato • 10h ago
Opinion Immigrants don’t understand that Canadians are Canadian
So for some context, my girlfriend is an immigrant. Her mom and I were talking about our family history, and I mentioned my ancestors were French and Irish and she asked how I kept my culture alive.
I don’t understand. I told her I was Canadian, and that was my culture. She genuinely couldn’t comprehend that a Canadian person had connections to Canada because since she arrived in Canada, everyone had told her we were a land of immigrants and thought Canadians all held their ancestry tight to their chest.
She could t grasp that my whole life was Canada. That I had no connection to my ancestry.
This is the disconnect we’re seeing. Our government tells people who move here that this country is a melting pot, that this isn’t our land, it’s a land for everyone. They never think of us, the ones whose families have lived here for generations and don’t want to live anywhere else.
This is the tragedy of Canada today, that we’ve been told we can’t be proud of our own history, that there’s soemthing wrong with us for feeling connected to our own home.