17. There's an entire cultural infrastructure to reward oatmeal novels ("angst on the farm" as Russell Smith described it).
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18. Irvine Welsh weights in, saying the Scots have exported their boring people to Canada:https://twitter.com/AlphaInvictus/status/609213142913028096 …
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19. (Should have said this before but everything here is only true of English Canada which has never assimilated Quebec into its boringness)
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20. This is very much worth pondering:https://twitter.com/RobinMazumder/status/609215271312592896 …
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21. The constructed mask of boringness is also the mask of whiteness.
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22. One version of Canadian history (see Conrad Black) presents country as being much whiter than it is, excluding First Nations, etc.
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24. If see the mask of boringness as a way of presenting a multi-ethnic country as being Anglo, it becomes much more sinister.
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25. This type of boringness isn't the safety of a polite & ordered society but the enforced conformity and complacency of a closed hive.
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@m_r_stewart A "sanctimonious ice-box" as Lewis wrote in a letter.
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