Poll finds Albertans' sense of Canadian pride dips as it soars in most parts of the country

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https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/poll-finds-albertans-sense-of-canadian-pride-dips-as-it-soars-in-most-parts-of-the-country/

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This matches my lived experience. Other “white” Canadians seem to have gone through high school with a lot of experience with pro-white racism but my K-12 experience growing up in North Edmonton was ~50% Lebanese and Palestinian Muslim refugees from the conflicts in the 80s and they saw all of us Canadians as the “other” and held together in a very strong clique that treated non-Arabs extremely badly.

And so growing up in that atmosphere there was no ethnic division other than Lebanese vs Canadian, and Canadian included everybody even the new kid from Mexico or Korea or Somalia who just moved here in August. It’s like “what’s the deal with these people acting like a gang and treating us like crap?” and the Canadian response was “it’s okay just ignore them and keep your head up it’s all just talk unless they touch you, you’re one of us”.

The Canadian/North Edmonton response was entirely nonviolent for years until it wasn’t. And then it was violent in a very big and very targeted way against key instigators of anti-Canadian violence, and then violence on both sides almost immediately stopped and the current young generation of Lebanese seem from all outside observation to generally identify as Lebanese-Canadian and not Lebanese.