Are you one of those immoral, decadent western Canadians that you villify here, or did you just take a Canadian passport to make your life easier?
If you're going to bash western culture and you think it sucks so badly, then simply don't partake of its fruits, as marycatherine said. Don't wear western clothing or listen to our music or watch our TV shows -- but then you also shouldn't send your kids to our schools because they're better than yours, you shouldn't fly off to our medical clinics because we've got the state-of-the-art treatment that you need, and you shouldn't hire our citizens to come into your country to help you extract the natural resources that are the main source of income for your region because your own citizens aren't trained, humble, or hard-working enough to do it themselves.
If you're tickled pink to be a hard-core Muslim, then I'm glad for you. But as a Muslim, you really should have better manners than to go around insulting another's culture, especially when the people you are insulting are GUESTS that YOU have invited into your country for ASSISTANCE.
We never claimed to be perfect. But I think most of us westerners kind of like our culture -- the freedom of expression most of us have, the variety of choices in nearly every aspect of life, the many opportunities afforded us...
Yeah, I think we're a happy bunch. So if you don't like the way we live or the choices we make, it doesn't really bug us. But don't bash us on the one hand while you drive away in your Suburban, with your Nokia phone in your pocket, heading off to pick up a Starbucks latte on the way home...
Are you one of those immoral, decadent western Canadians that you villify here, or did you just take a Canadian passport to make your life easier?
If you're going to bash western culture and you think it sucks so badly, then simply don't partake of its fruits, as marycatherine said. Don't wear western clothing or listen to our music or watch our TV shows -- but then you also shouldn't send your kids to our schools because they're better than yours, you shouldn't fly off to our medical clinics because we've got the state-of-the-art treatment that you need, and you shouldn't hire our citizens to come into your country to help you extract the natural resources that are the main source of income for your region because your own citizens aren't trained, humble, or hard-working enough to do it themselves.
If you're tickled pink to be a hard-core Muslim, then I'm glad for you. But as a Muslim, you really should have better manners than to go around insulting another's culture, especially when the people you are insulting are GUESTS that YOU have invited into your country for ASSISTANCE.
We never claimed to be perfect. But I think most of us westerners kind of like our culture -- the freedom of expression most of us have, the variety of choices in nearly every aspect of life, the many opportunities afforded us...
Yeah, I think we're a happy bunch. So if you don't like the way we live or the choices we make, it doesn't really bug us. But don't bash us on the one hand while you drive away in your Suburban, with your Nokia phone in your pocket, heading off to pick up a Starbucks latte on the way home...