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Mehul Prajapati, an international student in Canada, made a video about using a food bank at school. The vitriol he received was intense

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[–] eezeebee 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is interesting to me. Do you have any examples of how you would word something differently in Australia compared to Canada?

[–] baconisaveg 23 points 11 months ago

Well, they really don't like it when you call them a cunt here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I worked with a guy fresh from Australia….

Sooo, racism is a bigger deal here than in Australia, often words that have racist histories have been just accepted as slang in Australia ina type of “reclaim” thing. He wasn’t racist per se, but he did need a lot of education on the history of some slang and why it isn’t used in Canada. He was ALWAYS good about it, didn’t mean any harm but just didn’t know.

Also, when looking for flip flops, walking into walmart asking the employee where the “male thongs” are WAs a mildly embarrassing venture for him.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, righto cunt, I'm heading to the bottle-o to grab some grog, I reckon I can drop by after for a bit of a chinwag.