but, i mean...

i'm not a nationalist.

i'm not going to wrap myself in a flag, or sing jingoist slogans, or cheer on one country as superior to another.

and, this idea of national pride based on arbitrary characteristics is just reflective of the collapse into primitivism that we're undergoing.

i can point to the country's history and traditions as setting precedent, and then argue in favour of this as some kind of ordering. but, i'm not going to elevate them to the status of myth, or pound them into anybody's faces.

and, it's not because that would be uncanadian - although it would be. it's because that would be uncivilized.