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It's almost like they're trying to respect each other's differences ffs (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Things are complicated. For some Canadians, the country really sucks because of its history and how it was made. I'm a Francophone old enough to have lived through the last referendum on separation. I remember the dirty tricks.

And based on that previous history, we respect each other so much that to this day, after multiple attempts, we never agreed on a constitution and just pretend everything is fine.

Going back further, the French speaking part was conquered by England and eventually forced into a union where English speakers had more rights.

So "respect each other's differences" is relative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Solitudes_(Canadian_society)

EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention this other piece of historical mutual respect.

EDIT2: I must seem angry for things that happened a few hundred years ago but as I mentioned, the constitution is still not fixed. And we should also mention everything shitty both the French and English did tonrhe natives. We do however tolerate and even respect each other through all this because otherwise we would still be in a perpetual state of war. Instead it's "just" political bickering.