I plan on traveling to Canada, but I do have this worry.
To be more specific, I’m not kinda black, my skin’s somehow white, but I have black relatives, which means I got wavy hair and some other things.
I plan on traveling to Canada, but I do have this worry.
To be more specific, I’m not kinda black, my skin’s somehow white, but I have black relatives, which means I got wavy hair and some other things.
Carstairs is a rural town with a population of 4900.
Oh, everyone?
I happen to be Albertan and the notion of being compared to Texas fills me with anger. I’d like you to back that up with some kind of poll or statistic, please.
if your taking things that literally on the internet, I can’t help you.
but what I can say is I didnt know anyone who understood it’s an insult was until I moved out of Alberta. So everyone I met while growing up, yeah.
for the record I grew up in Calgary.
OP is being warned to “stay away” specifically from Alberta because we’re apparently not safe to be around, how am I supposed to be taking this? So far the only solid reasons that have been given are:
So yeah, I’m rather offended. I think OP would have a perfectly fine time coming to visit Alberta.
why are you taking it personally that were talking about you specifically?
I know many great Albertians. But they’re a slim minority. The people, as a whole, are not as good to interact with if your a person if color. this is coming from friends who are.
we’re not saying you specifically are an ass, but that a lot more people are asses in Alberta than most other places in Canada.
I gave you a few light hearted examples.
how about the person who crashed into my friends cart for wearing a mask in a store and said “don’t rob me”.
how about all the terrible things said about natives out there?
how about the police running moonlight walks?
or the anti abortion ads that used to be on trucks and on the university campus showing graphic photos?
there’s more than you there.
On the anger about Albertans being painted as lunatics and compared to Texas, I mean come on, you don’t need stats or polls to see how that is. Not when the press focuses in, rightfully, on our premier who has both a pick-me complex, and insists on (loudly) representing the most grossest, fringest interests, which are wildly xenophobic, authoritarian, science denying, treasonist and corrupt in it’s wildest extremes. Which is baffling when you consider that it’s a pretty small number of our overall population that actually is represented by this nonsense. That only have power because of our distorted ways that we vote for representation, and weird ass governments that completely rug pull and stand for mandates they refuse to acknowledge at election time, because their wackadoodle party keeps getting hijacked and controlled by these fringe unelected people.
So don’t be confused or have shocked Pikachu face or anything when people outside (or inside) the province paint us with these brushes. It’s deserved, because we keep allowing it to happen. We keep allowing these people to abuse us and control the narrative about who we are.
Oh yes, I know why people have picked up a distorted and prejudiced view of Albertans.
Should I go “oh, okay then, carry on believing that and propagating the stereotype?”
It’s true that we’ve got a terrible premier. It is not true that it’s “unsafe” for tourists to visit. It’s not true that “everyone in Alberta thinks being compared to Texas is a compliment.” And so I will call those falsehoods out when they’re propagated.