Have just gotten an angry letter telling me that "Canuck" is an ethnic slur.
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That is certainly right, although I think there’s a good argument to be made that the discrimination went away because of assimilation. That is, the fact that they’re no longer subject to active discrimination comes from their giving up language and culture—ie the bigots won.
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Growing up in NH, I was taught an offensive children’s song called ‘Johnny Quebec’ that seemed completely normal to me until I left and realized how thoroughly I had been taught to look down on French Canadians...
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