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[Underwaterbob]

[cruisemonkey]

Canada - the country where it's legal to discriminate against able-bodied, 'white' males.

[friendoken]

[Lunar Groove Gardener]

I am treated well here in Korea by my university employer.

It's true that too many Canadians here represent themselves, as in this last kid's posting, as though they speak for their entire country with nationalistic hatred for all things USA.

Fortunately for the planet, just as many Canadians actually have minds attached to their mouths and speak with depth of thought, insight and experience.

For anyone from anywhere who has traveled and studied on their own dime, experience has always favoured treating each individual in accordance to their behaviour, not the colour of their skin, flag or pappa's bank book(be it large or small, it's the quality of the mind that matters, and what you choose to do with it).


For those who, as the girl with the rich father posts, disdain people wholesale from whatever country, well, they really aren't off the teat, and may never be.

Expose your hatred as you like.

That is a bigger difference between us than religion, country or shoe size, and you have placed it there between us.

You have that choice.

What does such a person teach their students? To hate in some absurd storm of generalized and personally interpretted nationalism?

You can only teach what you know.

Any insults that you have earned have no meaningful connection with your national origin.

Don't teach. Go study, yourself.

[Lekker]

You are rich in what you give.

Poorer in what you receive.

[friendoken]

[canuckistan]

Water everywhere to jump in and swim.

Wonderful.

[grnmle]

I am going back to Vancouver in three days and I am very thankful. The reasons... For one there is diversity. Before coming here last year I stopped to smoke a joint on the top of the Mountain Equipment Co-op on Broadway street. As I was sitting on the picnic table that overlooks much of the city skyline I was approached by an older Chinese fellow. He sat beside me and we chatted about China, the city he was from, the look of the city, and my trip to Korea. It was a real pleasant hour spent overlooking the madness of rush hour traffic. This is just once example; there are many others.

Once back there I will also be able to play golf on just about any course I choose. On my favorite course back home I can witness more true wildlife in 5 hours than all of the children I have taught have ever seen. I find it sad, the lack of connection to nature here.

One of the first things I do is ride a bike to my favorite lake and swim (free of motorboats and the idiots they tow around). Here I can find some sort of peace, provided I do not get a leg cramp. I can turn over, close my eyes and feel the water and the sun; it is a feeling better than any dream.

Ice hockey in August or September. To strap on a pair of skates and feel the wind in my face, send a puck top corner with a nice slapper. And the feeling that happens when the zamboni operator opens up the gate to signal the end of the game and I know all I have to do is sit and have an ice cold beer or two or three or four...

Gates that open into tennis courts.

Grass. All varieties. The kind you walk on, the kind you smoke. To be more clear.

[Scarlet13]