why is being a Canadian a bad thing on here?

[H.I.M.]

I got news for you... Most black people here are transplants from Africa or the Carribean.

I've seen black issues and dealt with em in the motherland, Canada, Europe but according to Americans only y'all know real discrimination

If y'all wanna walk around with a chip on your shoulder go ahead but I'm not naive enough to think the world sees/treats us any different. Only black people do this lame diaspora beef and it 100% stems from ignorance and lack of knowledge

Strawmen err'whur

But if you lived most of your life in Canada...particularly your formative years...whether your parents came from Africa, the Carribean or not...you ain't gonna be able to culturally relate to the folks in those countries either or really understand their struggles and hardships on a personal level unless you lived it.

 

[Nature's Fury]

I got news for you... Most black people here are transplants from Africa or the Carribean.

I've seen black issues and dealt with em in the motherland, Canada, Europe but according to Americans only y'all know real discrimination

If y'all wanna walk around with a chip on your shoulder go ahead but I'm not naive enough to think the world sees/treats us any different. Only black people do this lame diaspora beef and it 100% stems from ignorance and lack of knowledge

you're kidding, right???

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

I got news for you... Most black people here are transplants from Africa or the Carribean.

I've seen black issues and dealt with em in the motherland, Canada, Europe but according to Americans only y'all know real discrimination

If y'all wanna walk around with a chip on your shoulder go ahead but I'm not naive enough to think the world sees/treats us any different. Only black people do this lame diaspora beef and it 100% stems from ignorance and lack of knowledge

No they're not, they were born here.

I live here, stop fukking lying.

Before you say: "you haven't been anywhere" nikka stop. Just no. No, no, no. I gave y'all props. Leave it at that.

 

[211somelliere]

No offense to canadian brehs, but Sports, Hip Hop, and Piff are American concepts and American culture.

So when I see a foreign breh tell me who their favourite rapper is or anything with that foreign spelling I just ignore their opinion.

I think the average black kid in Iowa or Montana can relate to OUR culture moreso than any Canadian or European

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

No offense to canadian brehs, but Sports, Hip Hop, and Piff are American concepts and American culture.

So when I see a foreign breh tell me who their favourite rapper is or anything with that foreign spelling I just ignore their opinion.

I think the average black kid in Iowa or Montana can relate to OUR culture moreso than any Canadian or European

No such thing as that. There are more black people in Toronto.

 

[211somelliere]

No such thing as that. There are more black people in Toronto.

They might be "black" in the African diaspora sense. But to me Black American is a unique culture.

Unless they moved to Canada from Oakland or Kentucky or Florida or something they are just canadian. The average cac from a black american neighborhood more qualified to speak on hip hop to me than a black canadian.

 

[TheArchitect]

I wouldn't mind living there. I hear the people are a lot more polite and shyt, and racism isn't as much of a problem (though your bound to find that shyt ANYWHERE you go).....Toronto maybe.....

 

[211somelliere]

I wouldn't mind living there. I hear the people are a lot more polite and shyt, and racism isn't as much of a problem (though your bound to find that shyt ANYWHERE you go).....Toronto maybe.....

I was just watching the 30 for 30 bout that canadian sprinter the other day it seems like a chill place to live. But Sports Hip Hop and Piff nah. They couldn't even keep the Grizzlies. Steve Francis cried real grown man tears about having to go to Canada because there's no hip hop and piff. What Franchise look like in the club in VANCOUVER lmao with the Crab Fishermen and shyt

 

[Hyperion]

The reason why is because most of those posters are cornballs, and believe that a country that doesn't have a high mortality rate due to guns is suddenly a bad thing. They're praising America in one breath, and cursing it the next. And many of them are showing themselves... because being ignorant of the countries that surround you is a great fukking thing to be proud of. There's a reason why the American stereotype is that you guys are gun-loving obese idiots.


...But you wouldn't like to be characterized by stereotypes, now would you?


Now, am I saying Canada is as violent as America? No. Am I saying that Canada tends to borrow a lot of American culture? Yes. At the end of the day though, does that matter? Because if anything, America is really just a hub of different cultures interacting with each other

Then again, most of the people in here probably haven't even left their own state, let alone the country, so I really shouldn't even be taking this seriously.

 

[AITheAnswerAI]

Americans have stockholm syndrome and have been brain washed into thinking theyre better than everyone.

And arrogant Europeans and Asians don't?

Arrogance isn't limited by borders

 

[Hyperion]

And arrogant Europeans and Asians don't?

Arrogance isn't limited by borders

If anything, I think this proves that arrogance and ignorance happens all across the board. I know, I know, Captain Obvious, but it really says a lot once you think about it and digest that.

 

[mrken12]

It's only a bad thing when you run your mouth about black American issues and lecture us about "fatherlessness" when you don't know any context.

 

[Allergic2Latex]

Canada is the GOAT
We all live great lives, have lots of opportunities, free health care , we don't have to worry everyday if some maniac is going to shoot us (99% of Canada is safe) we have beautiful women that actually take care of themselves, our government cares more about us than the US cares for their own

Now don't get me wrong, I'd love to visit a lot of places in the states..
Grand Canyon, the National Parks, California, Louisiana (go near the swamp, get that southern hospitality) but for living quality, & everyday life... CANADA

But we are lucky to have America so close, great military power that would back us in a heart beat, & we learn a lot from what happens just south of us so we don't make the same dumbass mistakes hall make on a regular basis.

Why would we?

Considering that Canada is so much better to live in then america.

We get everything all your sports, all your TV shows,movies many that are filmed up here. But we also get a better quality of life and 90 percent of us are like a 1-2 hours away from the border if we want to lower ourselves for the day

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

No they're not, they were born here.

I live here, stop fukking lying.

Before you say: "you haven't been anywhere" nikka stop. Just no. No, no, no. I gave y'all props. Leave it at that.

You must be hanging out with kids then. All my homies are immigrants like me... And if they were born here they are only one or 2 generations deep at most. Lol at "I gave y'all props". I don't need your approval. All you corny haters have to get is respect is mutual. Canada ain't America and we don't want it to be. If I wanted to be American u would live there simply.

 

[211somelliere]

The reason why is because most of those posters are cornballs, and believe that a country that doesn't have a high mortality rate due to guns is suddenly a bad thing. They're praising America in one breath, and cursing it the next. And many of them are showing themselves... because being ignorant of the countries that surround you is a great fukking thing to be proud of. There's a reason why the American stereotype is that you guys are gun-loving obese idiots.


...But you wouldn't like to be characterized by stereotypes, now would you?


Now, am I saying Canada is as violent as America? No. Am I saying that Canada tends to borrow a lot of American culture? Yes. At the end of the day though, does that matter? Because if anything, America is really just a hub of different cultures interacting with each other

Then again, most of the people in here probably haven't even left their own state, let alone the country, so I really shouldn't even be taking this seriously.

Many of us have been to Canada though brah and seen it. Like others said it's not that far away. At the end of the day those American hubs ending in the North at Syracuse, Buffalo, Minneapolis and Seattle have commonalities of culture that we don't share with Canada. It's kind of wierd that an American hip-hop board is so overran. It took me a long time to realize half this board isn't even from here and is looking at us like fish in a fishbowl. That kind of discounts you from being abie to speak on it. Y'all could talk about Drake pre-2008 or something. But the rest of it is just internet guesswork on some "we want to sit at the grown foks table too." Nah.. you sit at the Canada table breh lol. And I love Canada. Montreal to BC it's a beautiful country but it's not hip hop, sports, nor piff.