Prosper

PROSPER; NOUN; SUCCESS; TO BECOME STRONG AND FLOURISHING


Why do we believe this phrase “you deserve better”? Have the lies that we've heard become accepted as our fact? Have we become so enthralled with pleasing everyone, that we forgot to please our self, first? Why is it that when others bring us down and deter our soul, we hence embrace them. We embrace their poetry and we embrace their anger. We believe their sayings are true, and that their reflections upon us must be genuine. So, over periods of our life, we believe that we are not worthy, we are less, and we are unsatisfactory. We cannot see our strengths, because others have only restated our weaknesses. We cannot move on, because in order to move on, we must be strong, but we do not believe we are strong; we believe we are weak (that is our weakness). So we believe that we deserve less. It may not be true, but a lie repeated is a truth aired. And so when prosper enters our lives, we find a way to sacrifice it in name of the lies we believe. We do not deserve prosper, rather we deserve worse. And so the prosper leaves. The prosper deserves better than us. But that is only because we do not believe that we are good enough for the prosper. The prosper sees the good in us that we have hidden amongst our own eyes and the prosper wishes to reveal our strength. But we shun the prosper and crawl back into our darkness.

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Canadian Stereotypes




Maybe one day I will babble on about my emigration to the United States. But for today it is about you dumb Americans. In particular, I am writing to those of you who still think that Toronto is a state (it is not, and Canada has no states). I am writing to those of you who think that it snows all the time in Canada, we have no military, and that Eskimos run the country. I am writing to those of you who haven't even traveled to Canada (no, Niagara Falls doesn't count you idiot) and decided that Canada is this funny, comical land to the north that is full of hicks and shouldn't be taken seriously (you guys have hicks too, so who cares?). Do you not realize that one often does not know much about a place until he or she has actually gone there? Or is your brain too concentrated on what you're going to get next time you go to Wal-Mart or McDonalds (you see, I can do stereotypes, too). Our biases are often wrong, yet Americans are so self absorbed in their premises that they rarely have an open mind. They think that they know all about Canada as they guzzle down their Budweiser. It makes me sick! I want to throw my Molson Canadian in their face (which is now owned by Coors, bye the way... Oh god). So let's take at four simple stereotypes, shall we?

SNOW – Look, we get snow. We may have longer winters and colder summers than you, but don't be ignorant. Just because you live in America doesn't mean your immune to the cold. Heck, parts of the continental U.S. are more north than parts of Canada. Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Maine are only a few states that have brutal winters. I grew up in the Chicago land area for 12 years and experienced up to golf ball sized hale every year in the winter. In Columbus, Ohio, I just experienced one of the most frigid winters I have felt in my 20 years. And, wait, believe it or not, we actually have summers, too. I know, your shocked, right? But we're not walking around in our snow shoes all year round. So just because we're Canada doesn't mean we're penguins waddling around in snow. Stop being an idiot and realize that the sun shines on us, too.

HOCKEY- Yes, Canadians love hockey. They worship hockey. But so what? Why is that a laughing point? In the states, Americans love football just as much as Canadians love hockey. And beyond that, Americans then love baseball and basketball too, and any other sport that they could bet on. We love hockey. So what. At least we are not so sports obsessed as the states are, and actually spend time with our families on Sundays.

MILITARY – Our navy consists of a guy with a rifle on a pontoon boat. Hah, heard it. But not everyone has the budget, err debt that the United States has. And not everyone has the military power nor size at reach by the Commander in Chief. But we actually do have a military, and we do a good job. We are actually helping the U.S. in Afghanistan and have been playing a major role in that war since it began, so you're welcome.

MOUNTIES – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a national police force in Canada. Many countries have them, although the U.S. does not. It is what it sounds like: a police force nationally organized and ran, instead of state or city ran. But when people think of mounties, they think of guys in red coats on a horse, like Brendan Fraser in Dudley Do Right. False. The RCMP started in 1920. It has its traditions and its roots. And they celebrate those traditions. Just because at a funeral firefighters wear white gloves, suits, cool hats with bag pipes playing in the background does not mean that they dress up like that to work with Irish music in the background. Looks and tradition is just that. Today, the RCMP are just any other police force, except that today they ride in Tahoes and Impalas, not mustangs.

The point is, we're different. But just because we're different does not mean that we are stupid or should be taken less seriously. There are many countries out there different from America, and that is not a bad thing. America is not the “standard” by which everyone else in this world should live up to. Yet so many Americans think so, and think that they are the best. It is this kind of attitude that has perpetuated a negative stereotype towards Americans across the world. So remember, different is not bad. Different is different. And just because someone is not American, does not mean you should make fun of them.

I'm glad I'm not American. When I get to travel around the world, people will badly until I tell them that I'm not American... I'm Canadian. And then they like me.

If you're reading this and are getting really pissed off and feeling personally attacked, that means one of two things. Either:

a) You did not pay attention to the first paragraph where it said that I am writing this to all of those who have perpetuated such stupid Canadian stereotypes. When I am saying 'you' in this letter, it is not directed towards you literally, but to a generic audience.

Or

b) You are one of those idiots who have perpetuated such stereotypes. As you read this, you are feeling attacked because I am attacking you. If you feel pissed off and mad, then good. Now you know a little bit of how I have felt for the past 14 years.

And remember, we burnt down your White House in 1814, and we can do it again :D

Have a great day!

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