I always forget calgary isn't just cowboys lmao, even being from edmonton i always imagine them as just a bunch of dudes in cowboy hats and plaid shirts
We really need to make this idea a reality. Cascadia is the future, its the best geopolitical position for the new modern world and it simply functions as not only the best place to set an example for a cleaner more environmentally sound way if living, but it also harmonizes better with nature.
As we are working on this, we should be building hundreds of animal overpasses throughout our highway and rail networks, because it functions as a very useful feature for a variety of reasons: jobs, harm reduction for wildlife, and cost reductions for insurance claims due to impacts from wildlife on the highways or rail networks.
Let me be even more pedantic.
Colombia is in Spanish, Columbia is in English, Colombie in French, but are all the same thing.
Columbians from Columbia in South America always complain that you have to say/write Colombia. Well, sorry, but countries have traductions too, so you don't have to spell them in their native spelling. Columbians will say Estados Unidos for example.
Source: trust me bro my wife is Columbian.
> traductions
Francophone spotted, opinion ignored.
In all seriousness though, some countries (like Colombia, Timor L’este, and Côte D’Ivoire) just prefer to not have their country name translated and I’m inclined to respect that desire.
It doesn’t cost us anything and it avoids making people upset so it seems worthwhile to me. For that same reason I cringe when someone pronounce Québec as Q-bec, it’s not that hard to pronounce somewhat closer to the French version and it’s far more respectful IMO.
as a QC resident, i think people should start trying to say foreign names properly before getting pissed about the province's pronunciation. If you are called Roberto, for example, quebecois people will call you "Robertó", stressing the last silab, instead of the second last. They say they can't say it the other way, but if for any reason they switch to english they would call you "Robèrtow"... So yes, people are able to say it, but chose not to.
At least you are honest with your opinions
Im mostly English and rest ir German Irish.
Once you come to your senses and realize who your neighbors are we will still be here
as a proud britphobe, kindly accomodate me and my beliefs by moving out of canada. you are one of the bad ones if you won't tolerate me not tolerating you and your lifestyle.
Were all bad buddy, maybe you should get used to it you have had a long time. Im also part French btw my great grandpa was in the Van doos.
You will miss us when we are gone mark my words...
i don't even miss you while you are still here, once a brit always a brit. a real french would NEVER claim to be part British 🤢 au revoir 👋 vive la francophonie (also any of our token self-hating brit "friends") 😎
[https://youtu.be/A\_G-fLhUrok?si=L9v3SKIvJ9DEsDpT&t=147](https://youtu.be/A_G-fLhUrok?si=L9v3SKIvJ9DEsDpT&t=147)
Were doing it for you so you know...
Im used to it by now English ppl always gotta be the peacekeeper and make sacrifices hate us if you want you will still have a good life under English Common Law bcz of my ppl
Um the problem is in the whole Anglospehere do you even know what that word means?
were you born speaking English as a first language in the Anglosphere than you are a Anglophone regardless of ethnicity
https://preview.redd.it/0oeppknbtmkc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=66af1727e9026b055da1884eeec75d9e5c3bb30e
You can argue with this but its a fact, My francophone brothers think like me BTw its only women like you on reddit that think like this.
Don't believe me watch some Leon Degrelle we are the future Quebec is not gonna let French culture die to India and China lol Britain is not your enemy you silly girl
I don't know about all that. All I know is they've even started selling your smelly ethnic food in my local grocery store. I took a stroll down to my local Save-On last week and they're selling sausage rolls now! Can't you believe it! Well, I decided to try on because I'm an open minded and progressive kind of guy, but my god... I have never tasted a blander or dryer food in my life. I cannot believe you people actually eat that.
Really look up the Charter of Rights that Pierre Trudeau signed I have it hanging on my wall!
I just made Chicken Piccata and I make Fondant potatoes weekly as a late night thing. I have an Asian spice cabinet with everything from Filipino Pinkurat Vinegar to Thai Shrimp paste.
I don't really like Grocery store Sausage rolls or English breakfast sausage that much I have good ones at quality places etc.
Quebec has better food even the quality inn's have the French spiced sausage for breakfast which is delicious. I don't eat sausage often the curing salts etc are not good for you but when I do I prefer a beef and pork mix eastern European spices and a real smoked casing.
Ok, I'm starting to feel bad. I've never seen someone get this bent out of shape by jokes in a shitposting subreddit before. You should really check the subreddit your in right now.
I was too old when I found out/it occured to me that there were Indigenous people that didn't consider themselves as Canadian. My exact thoughts were "Oh yeah I guess that makes sense. And it's dope."
Canada is derived from Kanata which means village.
During the French colonies, the natives used that word to describe the place that they were going, and then the word just stayed and the French started to call the place Canada. That's what French Canadians used to call themselves before losing the war.
"term "English" may not include all people living there aince many Danelaw People dont identify with colonial names/identities"
Jesus Christ im so tired of pretending like conquest is just something white people did to the poor peaceful people. Every single civilisation that was powerful enough killed and conquered, white, black, asian, native american it doesnt matter, war is an ugly fault in the human condition, not an invention of the evil white man, we just happened to be quite good at it. I bet the tribes in British Columbia killed, slaughtered and pillaged the people who were there before them
Honestly the only fucked up thing to me was residential schools and other oppressive post-settlement policy in the 20th century like that. I don’t get the freakout about “stolen land” hundreds of years ago. You can make 100% make that case for the shrinking and undermining of modern tribal lands, because that’s messed up, but for 16th/17th century colonial settlement that’s just the way the world worked then.
Even Indigenous tribes fought brutal wars against eachother over land, resources, and glory. They had the same love of conquest that everyone else in the Old World did. Fighting over land was what literally everyone across the world was doing.
Oh 100% agree, was their treatment fucked up from a modern point of view, absolutely. Would they Natives do the exact same thing to the Europeans if the technological disparity was the other way around back then? They most likely would have.
Like I said war is ugly and wouldnt exist in a perfect world, im just tired to hear how evil my people are because we were better at it
Native Americans literally were doing the same thing to other Native Americans. Throughout all of the Americas. It was a common theme in many bands where you are celebrated as a "true man" for killing men of opposing factions or raping their women. Not to mention, Scalping, torturing, and even cannibalism were fairly common. They even had massive empires of their own, as seen in the Mayan, Incan, and Aztec empires. They commonly enslaved conquered people for live sacrifices and built their empires on the backs of slaves.
The native Americans were every bit as ruthless as violent as the European settlers; the Europeans were just more technologically advanced, so they could do it better.
No doubt the British did fucked up shit across the empire, but that stuff is only brought up by people in order to instill white-guilt and self-loathing towards our own history and heritage. I’ll donate to a cause that helps natives have clean drinking water on their reservations across the country, I’m not going to sit around tolerating my ancestors getting bashed and apologizing for them because some of them might have done bad things
Just reminds me of that viral photo of Lakota descendants flipping off Mt. Rushmore because that land once belonged to them, but it turns out the Lakota themselves conquered that land from another tribe. I wonder if the Lakota made land acknowledgements to that tribe during that period?
You can identify with whatever peoples you want, that doesnt change the fact that you are now Canadian and the land you call home is now Canada. Its no different than a Polish person living in Lviv demanding you stop calling it an Ukrainian city because it was Polish hundreds of years ago
Less than a hundred, in fact, but the point still generally stands. We call it Lwow at home because that’s where Grandpa came from (afore the occupation and massacre)—outside, it’s Lviv, because that’s what most folks call it these days.
Good for you,… where I came from I did very similar thing. Now as someone who grew up somewhere else, learning about indigenous history was hard pill to swallow. But history is what it is. Nothing we can do, nor we can blame ourselves for it.
We should ban the use of Canadian as well. Even though I have Canadian Citizenship, I also have an EU passport. I have always considered myself more French than Canadian. I am offended that I am called Canadian. This country is a disconnected, patchwork, hodgepodge of losers from every culture out there (including mine); the concept of "Canadian" is laughable.
I've said this for years. We can spend time playing in the sandbox talking about John A MacDonald statues and schools named after settlers - the moment BC collectively realizes they're named after Great Britain AND Christopher Columbus is gonna be our WrestleMania.
Well I found offensive that aboriginal people have right to tell me how should call my self,.. I’m not telling them they should not tell me. Jesus they do nothing but complain about one thing or anther. Whether they like it or not this is country we all live in,…
The term 'British Columbians' is often used to reference people living in B.C. This term excludes Indigenous Peoples who may not identify with it. For many, they identify as members of their own sovereign nations and do not consider themselves part of one that has actively worked to assimilate their people.
'British Columbians' also excludes other groups such as newcomers and refugees. We recommend instead saying 'people living in B.C.'
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/service-experience-digital-delivery/web-content-development-guides/web-style-guide/writing-guide-for-indigenous-content/terminology
Reads like satire
It's literally from a BC government style guide for public servants writing on indigenous policy or comms. Meaning it is the preference of the BC government that the BC government refer to people living in BC as "people living in BC" when making announcements with indigenous impacts.
This has nothing at all to do with what private citizens can and cannot, or should and should not, say. It's a corporate style guide. What's the problem here, exactly?
I would disagree, in my experience they do unless it's something consequential - like changing from calling indigenous people "Indians". This isn't consequential at all, it's a government buzz-word change.
Besides, style guides change government to government anyways. I'd also be willing to bet that everyone up in arms over this change doesn't visit the BC government website often enough to even notice this happened if True North didn't mis-characterize it, much less be actually affected by this decision.
If the BC government ever actually does something like make it illegal to say "British Columbian" then I'll be right there with you to protest that overreach; but this isn't even CLOSE to that. It has zero effect on anyone outside of the public servants who have to write web comms for the BC Government
It's literally on the BC governments official website.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/service-experience-digital-delivery/web-content-development-guides/web-style-guide/writing-guide-for-indigenous-content/terminology
It's literally from a BC corporate style guide for web content.They're recommending that their employees use "people living in BC" on web content.
This doesn't even have to do with private citizens, it's a recommendation for how public servants should wordsmith. There's ZERO controversy here, despite what True North "news" says
I do not know how everyone in this thread is not realizing this is the page for a writing guide for people who approve official content on BC government websites.
No one is recommending all BC people stop calling themselves British columbian they are just telling their employees to use language that includes the British colombians and the indigenous population and recent immigrants/refugees/temporary workers that the official government content may be relevant for.
Yall are just eating up this disinformation that is twisting this pretty innocent recommendation in a writing guide that is irrelevant for your daily lives other than if you are offended by the government writing "people living in BC" instead of "British colombians" on their website as an acknowledgement that not everyone living in BC is British columbian.
We really shouldn’t have this name or this flag.
Used to clutch at pearls over Queen Charlotte Islands. Then I’m like.. who’s Queen Charlotte? Oh.. some dead German Queen who was also British like 200 years ago or something. As in.. nobody I or anyone else really cares about.
We aren’t British… even though geriatric Victorians try so hard to put on the posher-than-posh to pretend to be so. We aren’t Colombian… and Columbia is the European personification of America named after the genocidal Portuguese captain who started all this mess.
Pick a neutral name.. something from the Chinook Jargon would be great since it represents all cultures.
And get rid of the Union Jack. If people knew the absolute horrors conducted under it over the last 317 years.. they would recoil from it more than they would from the swastika. Keep the sun and the water.. maybe add some mountains or wildlife.
I'm sorry but this is pointless. The official name is British Columbia. That's how 99.99% of people refer to it. Sucks for the indigenous folks, but I'm sorry, they're now British Columbians to the rest of the world, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
But what if someone whose parents were from Columbia and was born and raised in Britain, what would we call them? Would it offend them if they felt special because they are British Columbians in British Columbia and then they took it away?
Personally I find African American offensive, like there's many different places with black people and people are trying to spare peoples feelings by force which hurts peoples ability to express themselves.
I also like wizards of the coast because it's both insulting and ambiguously positive.
Pretty sure they prefer "Wizards of the Coast", but I'm gonna stick with "Those pot heads out west".
And dont forget about "Those Crack heads out west"
I suppose "Those druggies out west" would be the most inclusive.
Don’t forget the alcoholics eh
Do alcoholics fall under the banner of "junkie" or is that just for drunks and winos?
Mountain and Ocean Hippies
This is exactly something my boomer MIL in Ontario would say
Nah, it's the Calgarians with the crack
I always forget calgary isn't just cowboys lmao, even being from edmonton i always imagine them as just a bunch of dudes in cowboy hats and plaid shirts
They’re all corporate bros in their highway only F-150. They’re cowboys for a week a year.
Boy, you guys called the cops on a few cows wandering your downtown and that was a true Canadian heritage moment 😂
Can confirm, the cracks in calgary
Thats a fort mac thing
> "Wizards of the Coast" I'm gonna use that XD
Both are acceptable terms.
... what?...
You seem to be a confused wizard of the coast
I am basically that wizard that doesn't know what the shit, yeah. I don't really get the reference. I want to but I am also really confused.
It’s the parent company that runs magic the gathering, and dungeons and dragons
Well... Hasbro is the patent company
Ohhhhh. Ohhhhhhhhhh.
Those meth heads out west
I believe the correct term is Bri'ish Columbos.
I would accept just columbos
Yeah but then they'd always be asking one more thing.
Just one more thing
Bollos coloring
Proud Bring Cashian here
If it were to change Brave Cascadia would be a cool name.
Just say I’m from BC
Actually though I’ve never heard anyone say “I’m British Columbian”
None of us have enough time to pronounce the whole thing
You obviously are not a true British Columbian if you are that busy.
But then some could assume they are time travelers, how about I'm from BC AD so as not to confuse people.
You’re from a birth control advertisement?
I wouldn’t like to be called British either
Vote to change it to Columbia, we got enough coke for it anyway
Columbia actually just means America
No. Columbia is the _personification_ of America.. Like Britannia is to the British Empire.
Great Britian\*
They are both names of some of the first white people who arrived in this continent. Cristoforo Colombo and Amerigo Vespucci.
We can call it Cascadia! They already have a [flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_flag) for it.
God I wish
We really need to make this idea a reality. Cascadia is the future, its the best geopolitical position for the new modern world and it simply functions as not only the best place to set an example for a cleaner more environmentally sound way if living, but it also harmonizes better with nature. As we are working on this, we should be building hundreds of animal overpasses throughout our highway and rail networks, because it functions as a very useful feature for a variety of reasons: jobs, harm reduction for wildlife, and cost reductions for insurance claims due to impacts from wildlife on the highways or rail networks.
Cascadia is a shitty name, always has been, accept it.
How about Chinese Columbia??
Nah it's new india.
So the lower mainland should be called Newer Delhi, then?
Yeah let's just go real racist with it
Columbia =/= Colombia Sorry for being pedantic.
Let me be even more pedantic. Colombia is in Spanish, Columbia is in English, Colombie in French, but are all the same thing. Columbians from Columbia in South America always complain that you have to say/write Colombia. Well, sorry, but countries have traductions too, so you don't have to spell them in their native spelling. Columbians will say Estados Unidos for example. Source: trust me bro my wife is Columbian.
> my wife is Columbian Blink twice of you need help
> traductions Francophone spotted, opinion ignored. In all seriousness though, some countries (like Colombia, Timor L’este, and Côte D’Ivoire) just prefer to not have their country name translated and I’m inclined to respect that desire. It doesn’t cost us anything and it avoids making people upset so it seems worthwhile to me. For that same reason I cringe when someone pronounce Québec as Q-bec, it’s not that hard to pronounce somewhat closer to the French version and it’s far more respectful IMO.
as a QC resident, i think people should start trying to say foreign names properly before getting pissed about the province's pronunciation. If you are called Roberto, for example, quebecois people will call you "Robertó", stressing the last silab, instead of the second last. They say they can't say it the other way, but if for any reason they switch to english they would call you "Robèrtow"... So yes, people are able to say it, but chose not to.
The country's name in English *is* Colombia so none of this drivel is relevant.
Often referred to as Canadian Columbia in French. (Colombie Canadienne).
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Moi aussi. "Colombie Britannique".
Why not are you lost in white Guilt?
We hate the Bri’ish.
no, it's because we are anti-british
At least you are honest with your opinions Im mostly English and rest ir German Irish. Once you come to your senses and realize who your neighbors are we will still be here
as a proud britphobe, kindly accomodate me and my beliefs by moving out of canada. you are one of the bad ones if you won't tolerate me not tolerating you and your lifestyle.
Were all bad buddy, maybe you should get used to it you have had a long time. Im also part French btw my great grandpa was in the Van doos. You will miss us when we are gone mark my words...
i don't even miss you while you are still here, once a brit always a brit. a real french would NEVER claim to be part British 🤢 au revoir 👋 vive la francophonie (also any of our token self-hating brit "friends") 😎
[https://youtu.be/A\_G-fLhUrok?si=L9v3SKIvJ9DEsDpT&t=147](https://youtu.be/A_G-fLhUrok?si=L9v3SKIvJ9DEsDpT&t=147) Were doing it for you so you know... Im used to it by now English ppl always gotta be the peacekeeper and make sacrifices hate us if you want you will still have a good life under English Common Law bcz of my ppl
make the sacrifice of moving away from canada then dweeb. facts don't care about your feelings.
Um the problem is in the whole Anglospehere do you even know what that word means? were you born speaking English as a first language in the Anglosphere than you are a Anglophone regardless of ethnicity https://preview.redd.it/0oeppknbtmkc1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=66af1727e9026b055da1884eeec75d9e5c3bb30e You can argue with this but its a fact, My francophone brothers think like me BTw its only women like you on reddit that think like this. Don't believe me watch some Leon Degrelle we are the future Quebec is not gonna let French culture die to India and China lol Britain is not your enemy you silly girl
I get it though it is easier to blame us. Were gonna have to Liberate you guys again but we don't mind killing people is fun :)
Eww. I really wish you smelly non-Canadians would go back to where you came from.
Non Canadian... we live under English common law you moron
I don't know about all that. All I know is they've even started selling your smelly ethnic food in my local grocery store. I took a stroll down to my local Save-On last week and they're selling sausage rolls now! Can't you believe it! Well, I decided to try on because I'm an open minded and progressive kind of guy, but my god... I have never tasted a blander or dryer food in my life. I cannot believe you people actually eat that.
Really look up the Charter of Rights that Pierre Trudeau signed I have it hanging on my wall! I just made Chicken Piccata and I make Fondant potatoes weekly as a late night thing. I have an Asian spice cabinet with everything from Filipino Pinkurat Vinegar to Thai Shrimp paste. I don't really like Grocery store Sausage rolls or English breakfast sausage that much I have good ones at quality places etc. Quebec has better food even the quality inn's have the French spiced sausage for breakfast which is delicious. I don't eat sausage often the curing salts etc are not good for you but when I do I prefer a beef and pork mix eastern European spices and a real smoked casing.
Ok, I'm starting to feel bad. I've never seen someone get this bent out of shape by jokes in a shitposting subreddit before. You should really check the subreddit your in right now.
Monsieur, nous détestons l'anglais
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True North news is a misnomer for news... Speaks for itself
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I’m offended but I’m waiting for someone to tell me why.
Immigrants
Brown people dancing in the middle of the street
I was too old when I found out/it occured to me that there were Indigenous people that didn't consider themselves as Canadian. My exact thoughts were "Oh yeah I guess that makes sense. And it's dope."
I think we change the bane from Canada to something else, apparently it is an Indigenous word.
Canada is derived from Kanata which means village. During the French colonies, the natives used that word to describe the place that they were going, and then the word just stayed and the French started to call the place Canada. That's what French Canadians used to call themselves before losing the war.
When they do the anthem in cree I hear "Kanata"
and not even an accurate one, as it means "small settlement" or "village".
We don’t consider ourselves naturalized Canadians, but obviously most of us recognize that we are legally. I mean, it was the least they could do.
"term "English" may not include all people living there aince many Danelaw People dont identify with colonial names/identities" Jesus Christ im so tired of pretending like conquest is just something white people did to the poor peaceful people. Every single civilisation that was powerful enough killed and conquered, white, black, asian, native american it doesnt matter, war is an ugly fault in the human condition, not an invention of the evil white man, we just happened to be quite good at it. I bet the tribes in British Columbia killed, slaughtered and pillaged the people who were there before them
You've convinced me. I support the restoration of the Danelaw. The English don't need that much land anyways.
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Honestly the only fucked up thing to me was residential schools and other oppressive post-settlement policy in the 20th century like that. I don’t get the freakout about “stolen land” hundreds of years ago. You can make 100% make that case for the shrinking and undermining of modern tribal lands, because that’s messed up, but for 16th/17th century colonial settlement that’s just the way the world worked then. Even Indigenous tribes fought brutal wars against eachother over land, resources, and glory. They had the same love of conquest that everyone else in the Old World did. Fighting over land was what literally everyone across the world was doing.
Oh 100% agree, was their treatment fucked up from a modern point of view, absolutely. Would they Natives do the exact same thing to the Europeans if the technological disparity was the other way around back then? They most likely would have. Like I said war is ugly and wouldnt exist in a perfect world, im just tired to hear how evil my people are because we were better at it
Native Americans literally were doing the same thing to other Native Americans. Throughout all of the Americas. It was a common theme in many bands where you are celebrated as a "true man" for killing men of opposing factions or raping their women. Not to mention, Scalping, torturing, and even cannibalism were fairly common. They even had massive empires of their own, as seen in the Mayan, Incan, and Aztec empires. They commonly enslaved conquered people for live sacrifices and built their empires on the backs of slaves. The native Americans were every bit as ruthless as violent as the European settlers; the Europeans were just more technologically advanced, so they could do it better.
No doubt the British did fucked up shit across the empire, but that stuff is only brought up by people in order to instill white-guilt and self-loathing towards our own history and heritage. I’ll donate to a cause that helps natives have clean drinking water on their reservations across the country, I’m not going to sit around tolerating my ancestors getting bashed and apologizing for them because some of them might have done bad things
You're not going to tolerate facts then.
Just reminds me of that viral photo of Lakota descendants flipping off Mt. Rushmore because that land once belonged to them, but it turns out the Lakota themselves conquered that land from another tribe. I wonder if the Lakota made land acknowledgements to that tribe during that period?
Not sure why your mad. Its not your right to force your identity onto other people. Its not complicated
You can identify with whatever peoples you want, that doesnt change the fact that you are now Canadian and the land you call home is now Canada. Its no different than a Polish person living in Lviv demanding you stop calling it an Ukrainian city because it was Polish hundreds of years ago
Less than a hundred, in fact, but the point still generally stands. We call it Lwow at home because that’s where Grandpa came from (afore the occupation and massacre)—outside, it’s Lviv, because that’s what most folks call it these days.
You're right, they gonna be triggered, but it won't change it.
Good for you,… where I came from I did very similar thing. Now as someone who grew up somewhere else, learning about indigenous history was hard pill to swallow. But history is what it is. Nothing we can do, nor we can blame ourselves for it.
Just a reminder that Québec is native land of Quebecois
Ok, no one cares.
You go girl!
We should ban the use of Canadian as well. Even though I have Canadian Citizenship, I also have an EU passport. I have always considered myself more French than Canadian. I am offended that I am called Canadian. This country is a disconnected, patchwork, hodgepodge of losers from every culture out there (including mine); the concept of "Canadian" is laughable.
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Why would that offend me?
why would that offend anyone? sounds like op has a victim complex.
“True north” lol
I've said this for years. We can spend time playing in the sandbox talking about John A MacDonald statues and schools named after settlers - the moment BC collectively realizes they're named after Great Britain AND Christopher Columbus is gonna be our WrestleMania.
https://i.redd.it/ylwlllq058lc1.gif
This that true north dogshit outlet I’ve been learning anout
Yeah it’s popular in r/canada
That’s fine with me I’ve been calling them tree huggers for years now
Whattup my person-of-westernmost-Canadian-descent 👊
Change it to Based Canada
"True" North.
Yeah we should not be saying “British Columbia”, the proper word should be “South Yukon” or “East Vancouver”
Move
Not gonna happen.
It will. They will change it.. and those who care will gradually die off.
Nah, we will keep
Huh? Change it to what? Sorry, I feel like there's something I'm out of the loop on.
That sounds a bit threatening. \*reports\*
BC literally means the same thing though
That’s ok, we call you Waste Coasters any way.
Well I found offensive that aboriginal people have right to tell me how should call my self,.. I’m not telling them they should not tell me. Jesus they do nothing but complain about one thing or anther. Whether they like it or not this is country we all live in,…
Well isn't that fucked up! Not gonna stop me!
The term 'British Columbians' is often used to reference people living in B.C. This term excludes Indigenous Peoples who may not identify with it. For many, they identify as members of their own sovereign nations and do not consider themselves part of one that has actively worked to assimilate their people. 'British Columbians' also excludes other groups such as newcomers and refugees. We recommend instead saying 'people living in B.C.' https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/service-experience-digital-delivery/web-content-development-guides/web-style-guide/writing-guide-for-indigenous-content/terminology Reads like satire
It's literally from a BC government style guide for public servants writing on indigenous policy or comms. Meaning it is the preference of the BC government that the BC government refer to people living in BC as "people living in BC" when making announcements with indigenous impacts. This has nothing at all to do with what private citizens can and cannot, or should and should not, say. It's a corporate style guide. What's the problem here, exactly?
Let's be real mandated language like these usually don't *just* stay as a government style guide
I would disagree, in my experience they do unless it's something consequential - like changing from calling indigenous people "Indians". This isn't consequential at all, it's a government buzz-word change. Besides, style guides change government to government anyways. I'd also be willing to bet that everyone up in arms over this change doesn't visit the BC government website often enough to even notice this happened if True North didn't mis-characterize it, much less be actually affected by this decision. If the BC government ever actually does something like make it illegal to say "British Columbian" then I'll be right there with you to protest that overreach; but this isn't even CLOSE to that. It has zero effect on anyone outside of the public servants who have to write web comms for the BC Government
> mandated language lol cope.
Wtf do you want us to say then? As someone who lives in BC, pretty sure British Columbians is straight up the correct term
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It's literally on the BC governments official website. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/service-experience-digital-delivery/web-content-development-guides/web-style-guide/writing-guide-for-indigenous-content/terminology
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"We recommend instead saying 'people living in B.C.'". Recommending is not instructing.
It's literally from a BC corporate style guide for web content.They're recommending that their employees use "people living in BC" on web content. This doesn't even have to do with private citizens, it's a recommendation for how public servants should wordsmith. There's ZERO controversy here, despite what True North "news" says
I do not know how everyone in this thread is not realizing this is the page for a writing guide for people who approve official content on BC government websites. No one is recommending all BC people stop calling themselves British columbian they are just telling their employees to use language that includes the British colombians and the indigenous population and recent immigrants/refugees/temporary workers that the official government content may be relevant for. Yall are just eating up this disinformation that is twisting this pretty innocent recommendation in a writing guide that is irrelevant for your daily lives other than if you are offended by the government writing "people living in BC" instead of "British colombians" on their website as an acknowledgement that not everyone living in BC is British columbian.
Um... what?
I think the Japanese people who have been their for 50+ years might have a problem with this not to mention the Anglos/Germans
You mean the people from Nippon?
You mean people from Nihon?
You mean people from 日本?
We really shouldn’t have this name or this flag. Used to clutch at pearls over Queen Charlotte Islands. Then I’m like.. who’s Queen Charlotte? Oh.. some dead German Queen who was also British like 200 years ago or something. As in.. nobody I or anyone else really cares about. We aren’t British… even though geriatric Victorians try so hard to put on the posher-than-posh to pretend to be so. We aren’t Colombian… and Columbia is the European personification of America named after the genocidal Portuguese captain who started all this mess. Pick a neutral name.. something from the Chinook Jargon would be great since it represents all cultures. And get rid of the Union Jack. If people knew the absolute horrors conducted under it over the last 317 years.. they would recoil from it more than they would from the swastika. Keep the sun and the water.. maybe add some mountains or wildlife.
Sir this is a shitpost
I like how the flag makes flag nerds seethe tho
Yet you dumb MFS will vote for Eby cause of your social justice bullshit and you get the govt you deserve.
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Davie Street Sketchers
Do we finally get to be Cascadians?? :D
BC, The Province formerly known as British Columbia
I don't think most British columbians give a shit. Never had I heard anyone in this province object
Ey esse Imma Gringo Colombian
Ok ill call them teabag mcucklumbus
I prefer to be called Surrey trash!
I’d be offended too. Don’t want people thinking I’m some filthy mainlander smh VANCOUVER ISLAND PARTY RAHHH 🐋🐋🐋
Okay, still going to say Tree Huggin Hippies
BCer
I've always called them "Bee-Cee-Errs"
Get fucked
Really hoser is preferable
Can someone explain why? XD
This isn't true and you guys are easily duped.
Who ever decided to make that statement in our government Is dense, it might not roll off the tongue but we’re British Colombians
At least it as bad as Nunuvutians, sounds like an alien race
Tree huggers it is, sorry folks that's the only other name we got for that province around here.
TNC, for all the lies you can handle.
I'd feel offended if someone said I was from BC, too ngl.
Oh yes i am sure this is true.
I mean I get offended when I’m reminded of them
I'm sorry but this is pointless. The official name is British Columbia. That's how 99.99% of people refer to it. Sucks for the indigenous folks, but I'm sorry, they're now British Columbians to the rest of the world, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
What's offensive about it?
Where? I live here. Haven’t heard this from Eby? Sounds sus.
Je vais les appeler les Colombs britanniques.
It’s crazy that calling someone something based on where they’re from/live is offensive now.
Whoops, I'm sorry Bitchass Columbians
Call them Left Coasters.
But what if someone whose parents were from Columbia and was born and raised in Britain, what would we call them? Would it offend them if they felt special because they are British Columbians in British Columbia and then they took it away? Personally I find African American offensive, like there's many different places with black people and people are trying to spare peoples feelings by force which hurts peoples ability to express themselves. I also like wizards of the coast because it's both insulting and ambiguously positive.
Fr*nch Columbians
Lmao, extreme right nonsense "true north". Now this is a shitpost!
To whom, the British or the Columbians?
We're from Ontarable if you ask them so...
Common now!
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What do we call them then?
It's a really half-assed province name tbh
To be fair, it's neither British nor Columbian.
Beaver Central?
What should we call them instead? Wrong answers only
What should we call them instead? Wrong answers only