I am hoping that this response was meant to be ironic. If not, then it
strikes me as a response which seeks to dismiss an important political
point by ridicule.
As to Canadians being the world's worst imperialists, well I don't know
about that. But let us not forget that McDonald is claiming an
identity as a Cree not as a "Canadian", and it seems to me that that is
an important point.
Cheers,
Andy Herod
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:19:28 +0000 Hillary Shaw
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 8 Jul 00, at 11:00, Nick Blomley wrote:
>
> > A 19 year old Cree man plans to claim England later this month in the name
> > of Canada's First Nations. "Since it's the first time I'll be there, I'm
> > going to say I discovered it," says John McDonald, who will be studying at
> > Cambridge University during July.
> > He says he wants Europeans to realize that North America wasn't discovered
> > by explorers such as John Cabot, Jacques Cartier or Christoper Columbus.
> > "You can't dicover anything when people are already there," he said. "I
> > want society to realize there were people here first"
> This I hope to soon be followed by these subsequent geo-political
> events.....
> 1) A joint delegation of Cornish, Irish, Scots, and Welsh to march
> on Westminster demanding an end to the illegal occupation of their
> lands east of the River Severn: a demand for joint reparations from
> Westminster and Oslo, since the Vikings are partly to blame here
> too
> 2) Reoccupation of Britain by Italy, ending some 1,500 years of
> illegal declaration of UDI against Rome.
> 3) A Spanish invasion of The Netherlands, following recent DNA -
> assisted revision of early European Royal Family trees.
> 4) Occupation of the rest of the world by, jointly, Turkey, Iraq, and
> Kenya, since mankind is reckoned to have started in one of these
> places
> Hillary Shaw
>
> Hillary Shaw, P/G Geography, University of Leeds
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