National Post- Majority of Canadians don’t see themselves as ‘settlers,’ poll finds
The pollsters found that 47 per cent of Canadians disagree with the term “settler” as a descriptor. Thirty per cent didn’t know about the term, leading the researchers to note that it’s “reasonably safe to conclude that the 30 per cent … simply don’t understand the notion of settler colonialism.”
Sounds kind of like a derogatory description, seeing as how I was born here.
I was born here too, that makes me indigenous to this place, what would you be otherwise?
The “first nations” people were nomads, ie, just passing through, so they have no inherent claim to the lands. My ancestors settled on the prairie and stayed put. (and have the land titles to prove ownership). The so called natives exchanged their squatting for F150’s, ATV’s, snowmobiles and rifles.
Those that enthusiastically and religiously do land acknowledgements along with those crippled with cultural Marxism from the miseducation complex are all plagued with Stockholm syndrome courtesy of the grievance industry. Those who consider themselves as settlers are the Eloi and willing slaves to the guilt merchants strengthening and inverting apartheid.
the Siberians who call themselves first nations should actually be called first extorsionists. It is a never ending grift.
Land acknowledgments are merely telling First Nations et al that they lost wars and thus “their” land.
It’s just a form of rubbing it in.
John –
Best comment I’ve read on “land acknowledgments”. We have those at work meetings and they drive me insane.
We are letting our country slide away, willingly and unwittingly.
mhb23re
Having been born to this country, and my parents and three of my grandparents, if I’m not of this country then what am I? A space alien?
“then what am I? A space alien”?
Judging by some of your posts on here……….
And on the general point, white people going to non white countries is colonialism and is BAAAAAAAD.
Non white people going to white countries is ‘freedom of movement / diversity / cultural enrichment’ etc etc., and is never to be questioned by white people.
If settlers are a bad thing why does PM Blackface bring in so many new ones?
Because he’s replacing the current settlers with new ones … “better ones” … who will vote to return ALL Canadian lands to the indigenous. Why? Because they have ZERO history here and ZERO claim to the land.
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second last paragraph…
“What’s next in terms of Canadian identity? “Ideally there needs to be some reflection from the academy and some policymakers as to why this framing of Canada doesn’t resonate with the majority,” says Jewab.”
This reads like the media is looking to ramp up terming us as “settlers” which is the same word Israel’s people are viewed as by their surrounding terrorists, as a means of marginalising those who actually built the country. It sounds like something those within the #Librano caucus would plant in the media in return for their $xxx millions of tax credits, in return for more tax credits (which the MSM have recently requested)
If I could choose the adjective the media refers to me as, I’ll go with “conquerer” and leave “settler” in the ditch.
Agreed, this is intended to be entirely derogatory, but a bit more than that. If it doesn’t ‘resonate’ with the majority, then the academic framing is simply wrong and so are their media enablers.
native bands should start demanding $10,000 per head of any new settler that comes in to Canada starting right now.
So academia is finally realizing that there is so shit so stupid that only an academic could believe it?
Truth,without truth.
Reconciliation to blatant lies.
Prattling nitwits attempting to pin idiotic labels on tax payers.
And finally they sense,or begin to sense,that the citizen ain’t buying it..
Panic will set in.
Quick Declare an emergency.
Expect greater sensorship and “hate Crime” laws.
What will be next?
Will Academia and our freeloading minions embrace their true title?
The Parasitic Overload.
Being a native of North Western Ontario. To be exact I was born in Marathon Ontario. I would like to ask the perpetual whiners. How did you compensate the people you pushed out?
They get real annoyed when you point out that the reserves were put in place after the Whites settled the area. Pic was settled and got reserve status after Heron Bay was used as a shipping point and rail junction.
Mobert was settled and got reserve status after they were kicked out of Pic for being trouble makers.
Notice how some of the tribes ended up with good hunting/fishing after they drove the Cree a couple of hundred miles north.
The proper descriptors should be Host and Parasite
I see myself as a “contributor”…..not a parasite.
Makers and takers.
Let’s see… Father born in continental Europe, mother born in Saskatchewan, wife is status Indian.
What does that make our children?
Canadians.
Why on earth would they agree with being labelled “settlers” or “colonists”?
These academics are so deeply immersed in their own BS that their foreheads are brown. Axe the funding for their concocted divisive grievance-mongering, and make them get real jobs… if they have any marketable skills.
Actually their foreheads ar white. Shows that they are full of shit just down a quart.
Anybody who doesn’t like us here, can make they case as long as they first give up all the things we brought, starting with the wheel, then modern medicine including antibiotics, indoor plumbing, electricity, motors, etc.
They can go back to using stone tools.
Stone and bone are traditional.
Majority of government researchers don’t see themselves as ‘less-than-useless’, Canadians find.
If I am going to be referred to as a ‘settler’ or ‘colonialist’ in a derogatory manner then I am reverting to calling them Indians.
“If I am going to be referred to as a ‘settler’ or ‘colonialist’ in a derogatory manner then I am reverting to calling them Indians.”
I just call them natives. I will never, ever use the term ‘First Nations’.
I was born here so I’m a native. If people call me a settler, then I insist that all peoples here are settlers. The indigenous tribes did not originate here, they migrated to this continent and settled here. They are, at most, first settlers.
Can I steal “first settlers”? Snappy and accurate.
There’s actually no evidence that they were the first settlers.
The ice sheets did a thorough job of removing all traces of earlier inhabitants.
Meh…my ancestors settled on land here given to them by the King who, in turn, had relieved the land from the offspring of earlier settlers who couldn’t manage to hang onto it. Shit happens…
My great great grandfather was a settler 135 years ago. I was born here.
My mom’s ancestors came here in the late 1600s when it was New France. The Mohawks are newcomers by comparison.
My ancestors came to North America in 1615. You could call them colonists, because they helped build a country out of the wilderness. They actually fought the Empire-building, genocidal Iroquoi alonside the other “first nations” (Huron, Abenakis, etc) something today’s native really, really try to forget. Hey, if these Iroquoi hadn’t sided with the British way back, maybe things would be different. As said above, shit happened. The mistake the Brits made initially was assuming that because they had beate the French, they had also beaten the natives and were entitled to boss them around. King George changed that eventually. Settlers? I reserve the term for people who show up in a country already all built up. Call me a white man and I call you a redskin. Hell if it wasn’t for all the horny coureurs des bois, there wouldn’t be any Metis. You’re welcome.
There were the first settlers and later settlers but the most of the people living today are ‘Canadian’. Which brings us to the newcomer settlers. They’re the only settlers unless you are a racist and just denote White ethnicities as settlers.