i) When the idea of being Canadian comes to mind, we often think of it as our pride. Think of it as ourselves, selfishly. We don't mind to think of what we come from, or where our land came from. Our land is on treaty territory, all of our land is actually treaty land.
Treaty = Canada. The normative to fellow class mates stories as I look around are similar to mine, forgetful. Forgetful to what land we stand on and where this country truly comes from. " Oh there he is #10 in the black and red panthers jersey. He lines up at the face off in his hockey stance, the referee drops the puck game on. Kish-kish I hear the sounds of the skates cutting through the ice as they race for the puck. The players skate so smooth they make it look easy tight turns and transitions as they speed to the net. Don’t worry Rick will stop them I think to myself." As Jaclyn says, the idea of a game is what up-rises the Canadian spark to Jaclyn's young eyes. United to the game and cheering of hockey. My story relates with Jacylns revolving around the same idea, the great hockey game. "The teams are soon to set their skates upon the ice surface for warmups as the stands are already packed. As team Canadas skates glide onto the glistening ice, the crowd goes absolutely wild. The energy in this building is so high I can’t help but become apart of it." My area of focus of feeling united by a crowd to watch a game is very similar as to Jaclyn. At this time I only saw being Canadian as in the moment and not so much as the pass. Seems to be that myself and Jaclyn's stories relate to Scott as-well to the cheering with Canadian Pride. "All 40,000 fans are charged up by a human sized gopher getting the Green and White Army chanting “Go Riders Go” at the top of their lungs." Prime example of how we represent being Canadian as doing so in united together. These story's unite together to show our views of being Canadian by showing how sport brings out pride and provides evidence of how to us we feel being Canadian is shown by being unite with pride. Producing cheer in their story lines. None of these stories include mention of treaty or where we got the land to play our beloved games on. ii) Not all peer stories relate topic wise to stories posted above. Emily's story on her outdoor experiences stay away from Jaclyn, Scott and my-selves story line of sports and looks toward the great outdoors. "That summer day was when I realized that home is so much more than just a house; home is feeling. Home can be anything that ignites a feeling of warmth, family, and love." She provides that home is where the heart is and gives us sense of her outdoor love, fishing with handmade fishing rods with her father. Her story is based in the outdoor beauty of treaty land with no acknowledgement in her writing of being on it. As in "Is everyone Really Equal?" says "Humans are social beings who depend on the humans around us to make sense of our world"(43) opens up a perspective on how we open up our world, learn from it. "We are always wearing our cultural glasses and cannot truly take them off" (43) Scott, Jaclyn and my stories all seemed to keep our cultural glasses on how the "Canadian Culture" of being a spectator at a sports game best describes our "Canadianship". We need to maybe change our "glasses" though to stop silencing the true land we stand. We sing "O'Canada! Our home and native land!" Prior to every sporting game, but do we truly recall whose land we are standing on or make any mention of it. Lets not forget where we come from and be sure to be aware of it and share awareness. Work Cited; Sensoy, O., & DiAngelo, R. (2017) Understanding the Invisibility of Oppression Through Sexism. In Is Everyone really equal (2nd ed., pp. 43). New Yok, NY: Teachers College Press.
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