Seven-o-lai, said the girl in the pharmacy, she meant seven-o-nine. At Home Depot I was sent to the twooth row, instead of the second aisle. It doesn't matter, my own English is also far from perfect. I don't think anybody really minds. A new language will emerge here. One of the things people in Holland get totally overexcited about, oh oh our language. In Canada nobody seems to mind. Or I don't see it, that's also possible. The Dutch enrage themselves over stuff that happens over here just as well, all the time. Big city problems, people from all over the world, refugees, mess, trash, hash and caboodle. It puzzles me, alledgedly there is a wave of new Dutch immigrants wanting to come to Canada to escape these things in Holland. Yesterday one of Piffin's teachers came up to her at school to tell her he read about it. It's so weird, I find the reasons those people want to leave Holland xenophobic and racist. They don't seem to realise that Canada is much more multicultural than Holland, and that there are so many things that you just don't do or say or even think here, whereas in Holland the mere idea of political correctness has become a malediction. I don't think they know you can't even wish people merry christmas here.
I read that article, too, and wondered what you thought of it.
Is Canada comparible to the USA? In the USA there's a lot of segregation but at the same time it's a wonderful cultural diversity, people keep their identity. In NL there's more mixing, more informal. I guess both are good.
I think people here mix too, I know people with the strangest backgrounds. Patricia from the other comment is half Jamaican for example :-) But Canadians also love their heritage backgrounds, tonight the big Dutch Queen's party at Betty's!
Here it's deficult from state to state. I can emigine from country to country.
Maybe some people in Holland think they can emigrate to 1950's Canada like their relatives did. I like it in Holland. It grows up.