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Born and raised in Canada and grew up always supporting Canada on the world stage. This year for FIFA, however, I find myself not caring at all whether Canada wins.

I guess the “you’ll never be Canadian” comments have actually made me feel less so and I don’t feel the need to support a country where people secretly hate us. Doesn’t help that somebody made a video of a brown guy supporting Canada in one of the earlier games in Toronto and the comments were of course filled with hatred still.

Idk if it’s just me but I’m definitely not as patriotic as I used to be.

My immigrant dad definitely still is though and always talks about how Canada is the best and how much he loves Canada. Makes me sad because I don’t think Canada loves him the same way.

Saw a few of these posts and decided to make my own. This has been nagging at me a while.

Long story short, if I move out I’m going to be disowned so I won’t be able to move back in with my parents in case I ever lose my job or deal with hard times.

I do have 6+ months of living expenses saved up but I’m still hesitant. But I should probably be fine right? 😅 27f in Alberta.

Asking for myself lol men don’t approach me irl so I’m thinking I should start doing it. A few of my friends met their husbands by approaching them and it worked but I’m scared it won’t work for me and I’ll just offend somebody or ruin their day lol

Edit: I didn’t really want to include this detail but because some weird guy in the comments is assuming I’m an Asian woman fetishizing white men, nope and nope. I’m saying the white blonde archetype is generally what men in MY area like. Not what I like. I’m not into blondes.

Is it worth it? Looking to grab tickets before it leaves.

Posting this for my friend who was the driver. We were driving through the Grand Canyon today and got pulled over for apparently going 58 mph, which is insane because that’s like 93 km, which is the speed of some of our highways in Canada. She absolutely was NOT driving that fast. There were other cars and various stop signs around, and my other friend was navigating and would’ve told her if the speed shown on Google Maps went over the limit. She’s pretty good at sticking to the speed, or at least not going 23 mph over.

The ranger said she has to pay it online or she can fight it in court but has to be summoned to the Grand Canyon (?). We go back to Canada tomorrow and obviously won’t be coming back just to fight this but we also don’t think it’s fair or truthful so want to fight it in some way if possible.

Location: Arizona, USA

SPEEDING ticket***. Posting this for my friend who was the driver. We were driving through the Grand Canyon today and got pulled over for apparently going 58 mph, which is insane because that’s like 93 km, which is the speed of some of our highways in Canada. She absolutely was NOT driving that fast. There were other cars and various stop signs around, and my other friend was navigating and would’ve told her if the speed shown on Google Maps went over the limit. We’re pretty good at sticking to the speed, or at least not going 23 mph over.

The ranger said she has to pay it online or she can fight it in court but has to be summoned to the Grand Canyon (?) or there’ll be a warrant out for her arrest. We go back to Canada tomorrow and obviously won’t be coming back just to fight this but we also don’t think it’s fair or truthful so want to fight it in some way if possible.

Just saw somebody post a video of a Sikh guy supporting Canada at the World Cup in Toronto and caption it “not Canadian btw”.

I thought the issue was that we don’t assimilate? Oh wait, now it’s also an issue when we do? Shows all along that assimilation isn’t their problem. Their problem is that we don’t have the right skin colour.

What exactly is wrong with supporting the country you live in? And how do these people even know he is an immigrant ffs. I’m not white and don’t ‘look’ Canadian but I was born and raised in Canada but don’t even feel like I can call myself Canadian these days anymore because I know people will argue against it.

Edit: Obviously this isn’t based on one experience or video ffs. I thought that went without saying.

Follow up question, let’s say you were dating a girl who happened to be a virgin, would you want her to disclose that she was a virgin or would you not care? Like would you feel betrayed if you had sex and she didn’t tell you that beforehand

Idk if this kind of book even exists lol but I guess it doesn’t have to be this specific, more so just books around feeling behind in life or mourning the life you thought you’d have

Idk if anybody else feels the same way but I usually make excuses to not date in the first place because I’m not the best version of myself yet but another reason is that I’m too terrified of rejection and I remember how sad I was when a guy I went on a bumble date with years ago ghosted me, and I guess I’m scared to put myself out there again? But it’s been YEARS help why am I like this 😭

I’m actually going to die alone

Think sukhdeep.

I go by a white sounding name at work and I feel guilty for not going by the name my parents gave me. I know other desis are judging me for it. But I’m not even the least bit whitewashed. I’m not ashamed of my culture. I am however insecure about my name after being made fun of my whole life.

Those of you in similar positions, do you go by a white name and let the desi people judge you for being whitewashed? Or do you go by your actual name and let the non desi people make fun of you?