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The founding myth of your nation is violence. I think it's like asking if there will be snow in February (I'm Canadian btw)
What's the founding myth of Canada if not Eurocentric settler colonialism intended to displace and exterminate the indigenous peoples of the land they were invading?
Oh hi Freagle! And yeah you're exactly right!
For the most part, I think, yes. However, there was a compromise between the English and the French living there, IIRC, instead of a war.
A distinction without a difference
Climate change might do this phrase in one day.