{"id":4688,"date":"2008-08-20T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2008-08-20T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T02:18:39","slug":"want-to-call-yourself-canadian-assimilate%e2%80%93or-else%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"Want to Call Yourself Canadian? Assimilate\u2013or Else\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p>Alex <a href=\"http:\/\/alexfelipe.com\/2008\/08\/12\/assimilate-with-white-canada-or-else\/\">blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Canadians are too polite to tell the gooks to go home, that just wouldn\u2019t seem <em>right<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>It does, however, seem to be ok to tell them to \u201cintegrate\u201d with \u201cour culture\u201d or else \u201cCanada should reject that person as a potential Canadian citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent Toronto Star article titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/article\/471514\">Sure we have rights, but what about duties?<\/a>\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/columnists\/469791\">Angelo Persichilli<\/a> has resulted in a wave of joyous Letters to the Editor [9 Aug] basically insisting that immigrants (Angelo calls us \u201cethnics\u201d) stop being so not like them and freaking them out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/801\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=801&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex blogs:<br \/>\nCanadians are too polite to tell the gooks to go home, that just wouldn\u2019t seem right.<br \/>\nIt does, however, seem to be ok to tell them to \u201cintegrate\u201d with \u201cour culture\u201d or else \u201cCanada should reject that person as a potential Canadian citizen.\u201d<br \/>\nA recent Toronto Star article titled \u201cSure we have rights, but what [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}