Ethnic groups ONLY found in Canada

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   @JJMcCullough

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

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   @domg.1011

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

   The Métis & metis/metisser are different.
   Métis are a cultural nation as you said. We have many lifeways that are being lost, just like the lifeways of other groups, like chinese canadians living in western canada for generations after the railroad was built or like indigenous families who have lost some lifeways. It's a collection of things that aren't all exclusive to the Métis & some that are, but not every Métis person has every aspect. Personally, my grandmother took my mom & uncle foraging for mushrooms & stuff, I wear a sash when I play my mandolin (a fiddle you strum instead of bow) at mass or when I am working & need it to hold stuff, I ferment my own pickles & my family has recipes handed down, I grew up eating fried bannock while my mom usually had campfire bannock, we used to have crepes on sundays, I attend a church dedicated to the first peoples of Canada & that is very big: most of us have french catholic ancestors, but also some english & scottish protestant, & most of us have some cree but also blackfoot, ojibwe, saulteaux, swampy, sioux, dene, etc. Most of the early relationships were french men & cree women, so by name they were often catholic but raised by the mothers they were often traditional. This means that my church has the stations of the cross featuring an indigenous Jesus, we smudge the altar before mass on some masses (not daily), we have cree hymnals*, we say "kise manitou kawicikowa" & "kista mina" which means "the lord/kind spirit be with y'all" & "& you also" (btw "c" is pronounced "ch" or "ts" or like the chinese x kind of), & other stuff. We have a lot of orkney & french-canadian heritage so ofc fiddle is huge, we have several languages with various degrees of relation & various places on the cree-french continuum, as well as punki/bungee which is scots & ojibwe. We also LOVE to party! The new year's celebrations are HUGE! There are many more things which I am glossing over, & some things that aren't exclusive to us, like soapstone carving is popular but not exclusive, & many things have been lost to urbanization & assimilation. My oldest great aunt was the darkest of the sisters & she didn't call herself Métis bc of the racism she experienced. My gramma is one of the whiter ones (except her true black hair). The thing is, if you were white passing, you often assimilated & hid. A lot of our families lost some of our culture that way, but little things stayed. Getting a new hat on easter is common in a lot of catholic groups, so it is not out of the ordinary. Trapping is not done much anymore so we lost that one a bit. We are also really really losing our languages.

   Something that I think helps us to be an ethnicity as much as a cultural nation, is how many michif families married other Métis ppl. We will often exchange some last names in our lineage to find how we are related. In fact, here is that * from earlier: my priest is Métis. I am Métis & therefore my mother is, too. A senior my mom works with is also Métis & she gifted my mom a cree hymnal. I showed it to my priest once & he looked at me in shock & said, "That's my grandmother's!" On the inside, above my name & a few others, was her name. We are a tightly knit community, or at least we used to be & we are starting to try to find that again, & it's just aweing to me that you know someone who knows someone & they share a friend with you.

   (there is a population of scottish ppl who have native americasn heritage bc they took their wives home btw)

   I have had many more comments over the course of the video but I will keep my mouth shut. If u have more Qs abt michif stuff tho, I'd be happy to answer!

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   @jsjsjsjs818

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

   The inuktituuttt

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   @lagmar7703

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

   Very interesting video! As an Acadian from NB this was a neat listen. Cheers bud

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   @JordanAnglin-s6m

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

   I'd argue there's another, that you wouldn't notice on the census but definitely exists. Because the word "Mennonite" has a very different meaning in Manitoba than the rest of the country, it signifies heritage more than a lifestyle. A huge portion of the population here is ethnically Mennonite, but they've culturally assimilated and now live basically the same lives as any other white Canadians. Most Manitoban families with names like Friesen, Weibe, Klassen, etc. haven't spoken Low German in generations but are still referred to as "Mennonites" by everyone in this province. They often get misreported as Germans or Russians by statisticians, but neither of those labels are really accurate.

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   @916009

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

   Seems pretty scammy, just looking to poach benefits 🤔

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   @fujifilm5127

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

   I'm an Ethnic Anglophone Quebecois. Wrap your head around that Oui-nees.

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   @fujifilm5127

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

   My ex's tribe was displaced from the US so they could travel between the canada and the states without passports/bring a shit ton of stuff back from the US duty free. (Soooo many ciggrettes lmao) everytime they asked for her passport she'd hand over her paperwork and say 'where was your granddad's passport?' And sometimes they'd laugh (she only did this with the Canadians lol)

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   @ur-inannak9565

   May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

   You are quite incorrect that Canada is simply conceived as a country of just other peoples living here. Ever wonder why we are not part of the British Empire or why we sing "our home and native land"? Its not uncommon that a historical migration from somewhere else creates a unique identity. Consider half of the Arab world for example.

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    @jmajcan

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    My family history is a hodgepodge of random migrations at different times in Canadas history. However, I lived my whole life in PEI and know nothing else. I know I’m not Mi’kmaq so I’m not really an islander but I would say I’m a Prince Edward Islander 🤷🏻

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    @elikyaa

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    african americans? you mean scotians…

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    @CptManboobs

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    Literally every Newfoundlander I have ever met refers to themselves as a Newfie, so the idea that they would ever treat the word as a slur is functionally cultural erasure.

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    @medicsprettyhusband

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    11:26 ouch,, donut lips 😕

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    @dylanswift5185

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    I think the story of the Metis brings up the very uncomfortable reality that the goal of tearing down racial/ethnic boundaries also involves a de-emphasizing of said boundaries. Many South American nations are struggling with this push and pull when very real benefits can be associated with mostly social categorizations.

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    @kaibeasley5965

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    Interestingly there is also a large Acadian population in northern Maine, making up the only counties in the country where the majority native language is not English, Spanish, or a native american language

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    @DJGankstaGanksta

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    26:45 As someone who lives in Amish County Ohio, I forgot that there was an Amish population in Canada.

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    @steakismeat177

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    You forgot Trudeau

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    @trevorq1d

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    The way you try to play up a canadian accent on certain words drives me fucking nuts man

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    @peacexlove

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    When you mentioned Prince Edward Island I immediately thought of this 😂
    https://youtu.be/QofmggWp_vU?si=0flHOQFUZf0UykDz

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    @Abigael317

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    I live in a region of Canada with lots of Hutterites

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    @WMJ28

    May 26, 2026 at 12:57 pm

    I think it’s interesting to see this for America as well. A quarter of myself is of Italian descent, but this is the ethnic category I most strongly identify with due to a variety of family factors. This ties to the video in that while I consider myself to have Italian (specifically southern Italian) heritage, I also think of myself as having a uniquely Italian-American heritage, that is especially tied to the Northeast US. In my mind this is a seperate “Italian-American”ethnic identity, but I don’t know how much others would agree with me that it’s something different from an “Italian” ethnic identity. I almost see it like the Québécois see themselves as a unique group inspired by – but separate from – the French.

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