Re:19th-Century Lithuanians Who Smuggled Books to Save Their...
by Mikeb85 on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:53PM
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And in Canada we tried to destroy native language and culture, as well as various immigrant cultures.
My mom went to school before 'multiculturalism' was a thing, and was beaten by the teachers for speaking Ukrainian anywhere on the school grounds. And of course residential schools are a more known and somewhat more extreme example of the attempts to create homogeneous culture in Canada in the mid 20th century.
Nearly every (large) nation on earth has done similar things.
My mom went to school before 'multiculturalism' was a thing, and was beaten by the teachers for speaking Ukrainian anywhere on the school grounds. And of course residential schools are a more known and somewhat more extreme example of the attempts to create homogeneous culture in Canada in the mid 20th century.
Nearly every (large) nation on earth has done similar things.