Why Indian Migrants Claim Europeans Stole Canada
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If Europeans stole Canada centuries ago, why do fresh-off-the-boat-type migrants act like they have more rights to this country than the descendants of the people who built it? I made a video arguing that the rapid granting of Canadian citizenship to migrants facilitates foreign-born politicians with divided loyalties, and I got a comment from an Indian saying: "While your ancestors received Canadian citizenship 170 years ago, when he came from Europe, you guys pretend to be the original owners."
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If Europeans stole Canada centuries ago, why do fresh-off-the-boat-type migrants act like they
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have more right to this country than the descendants of the people who built it?
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So yesterday, I made a video arguing that the rapid granting of Canadian citizenship
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to migrants facilitates foreign-born politicians with divided loyalties, and I got this comment
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from an Indian saying, while your ancestors received his citizenship 170 years ago,
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when he came from Europe, you guys pretend to be the original owner as if you didn't steal
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others' land. Okay, so according to his logic, Canada's indigenous peoples should be subject to
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a second round of colonization. Basically, he's calling me an evil land stealer while implying
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he is the exact same. Yeah, that makes total sense. And this whole idea of permanent original owners
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is a myth. Every single piece of land on planet Earth has been invaded at some point, just like
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how North American indigenous tribes routinely fought wars over territory long before Europeans
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arrived. Also, my ancestors didn't receive citizenship 170 years ago. My ancestors,
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the European settlers, arrived 400 years ago and built the country from the ground up.
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And formal Canadian citizenship only dates to 1947, since someone had to create the nation
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first, a nation built from scratch. We assembled its institutions and infrastructure, forging a
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first-world Western country grounded in Roman law, Greek philosophy, and Christian morality,
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the foundations that transformed Canada into a successful, innovative, and prosperous powerhouse.
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White European excellence turns empty potential into unparalleled achievement, just like how
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when the British arrived to India, there were constant wars between kingdoms, caste-based
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violence, and practices like widow-burning and rival groups fighting to wipe each other out.
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Not only did the British Empire largely stop the vast majority of that, they built railways,
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roads, canals, and bridges. Telegraph lines were set up to move raw materials like cotton
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from India's interior to ports, such as Bombay, for export to England. The British Empire was the
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best thing to happen to India, and they didn't need to do it, but they did it because they wanted
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the best for the world. Be proud of that. Be proud of your heritage. Be proud of your ancestry.
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Be proud to be white. Be proud to be Canadian. We will implement re-migration. We will restore
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Canada, we will take back what is rightfully ours. Long live Canada.