Originally posted by juandiablo
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Quote: | Originally posted by Discipline
So I was having a conversation with my little brother today and he informed me that when he's old enough he wants to get a tattoo symbolizing Canada.
He's only 15, and has lived in the U.S. since he was only a few months old. I don't really think of him as being Canadian because he's spent his
whole life in America. He says it's because he loves Canada and was born here. He goes out of his way to tell people he was born here and now it
seems he wants a tattoo to cement that idea. His love for Canada doesn't come from any political or social ideology, I think part of it is because he
looks up to me a great deal and I'm a big patrot.
So here's my question; in your opinion, is he Canadian or American? I think of somebody who moved to Canada as an infant and grew up here as being
Canadian, which is why I think of him as American.
On a side note, I don't know if he'll really do it or not. I hope not as he really doesn't strike me as a tattoo kind of a guy.
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I look at it like this...if one of my childhood friends moved out of Philly to another city/suburb when they were in even lets say 4th grade...I would
not consider them a Philadelphian. Yeah, you were born here but you didn't become who you are today because you lived in Philly.
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Yet I've heard my dad say numerous times of our family who were from South Philly "you can take them out of South Philly, nut you can't take the South
Philly out of them". |