Should BC consider a name change?
#61
Re: Should BC consider a name change?
Isn't that because the audience for those games is old white men? I don't think the Grey Cup is ever mentioned in Ontario. Ice hockey is sometimes and it's represented on television by aging racists, race baiting (baiting Scandinavians!) is an acceptable part of the commentary. If baseball or basketball had a cup named for a racist then I think people would have noticed but ice hockey, American football in Canada and, for that matter wrestling, draw niche audiences who aren't tuned in to the idea that racism is problematic..
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Re: Should BC consider a name change?
Seems like an interesting topic some might like to debate about if.
Is it time to change the name of Canada’s westernmost province to something other than British Columbia?
Is it time to change the name of Canada’s westernmost province to something other than British Columbia?
Regarding BC, any other name, however this should include some reference to the Pacific Ocean, maybe "Pacific Canada" or "Pacific Columbia"....
Last edited by OrangeMango; Jul 3rd 2020 at 12:16 pm.
#63
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I'd honestly stick with British Columbia. I am also in general against all these name changes. One tends to forget that there is a history behind everything, even though history wasn't always nice.
Any other name, however should include some reference to the Pacific Ocean, maybe "Pacific Canada" or "Pacific Columbia"....
Any other name, however should include some reference to the Pacific Ocean, maybe "Pacific Canada" or "Pacific Columbia"....
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Columbia was part of the objection, since Columbus was effectively lost at sea before he was rescued by Caribbean natives and then started abusing them (he never actually set foot on America), so that won't help. I don't mind British Columbia at all, although the longer I hang around here the less appealing the name British becomes . It's too diverse for any one new descriptive name. Maybe we should wait another hundred or two hundred years, and if humans have survived, we can talk about it again.
In the end, it's all history. One can find a racist everywhere. But again, it's history, and that's it. I am also against changing names and bringing down statues. History is not what was right or wrong back then, it's documentary.
Outside the Houses of Parliament there is a statue of Oliver Cromwell on a horse. Everyone into history knows he brought hardship and injustice to the Irish, but again, it's history. History doesn't change just because one brings down statues or changes names.
I hope that BC will be BC for a long time.
#65
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A compromise might be to change the name to BC. Just BC. The colonial oppressors are disenfranchised and everyone still knows where it is.
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Re: Should BC consider a name change?
How about Phoca vitulina
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Re: Should BC consider a name change?
Hi
'Land of the bud' province ?
i was told once
name changes are good they wipe out history
cheers
J
'Land of the bud' province ?
i was told once
name changes are good they wipe out history
cheers
J