Canada Has Got Some VERY Ignorant People

Yes, and I went to school one year where I as a white person was a minority and had to fight every day,sometimes more than once, even after I had separated my collar bone in hockey. It was my initiation as they called it. If you are new and different from the rest kids are like that.

There are ignorant people all over the world and there are many reasons people use to think and try to act like they're better than someone else - and race is just one of them.


In the first grade a boy used to scare the crap out of me and threaten to beat me up almost every day.

He would say... "I'm going to beat you up after school". And almost every day I would practically roll down a hill to get away from him.

I told my sitter about it and she told me to pick up a stick and hit him in the head with it.

The very next day after school, I found a stick and hid it behind my back,

Once again he approached me and I waited for the boy to get close enough to strike - and that's exactly what I did. I co-cocked him upside the head and away he went went a-running.

After that we became good friends.

I suspect if this young Canadian actually hit someone with a stick he'd be charged with assault.

Maybe this news will prompt the parents of the offenders to talk to their kids and perhaps they will relent. I hope it will.

I noticed in Canada, that there are not all that many blacks. Maybe that's why black kids get bullied, because there are not enough of them to defend themselves.

I don't think you see to many natives getting bullied because there are more of them and they are tough b@stards.

Newfies are also not known to be the brightest bunch of people ever to have graced gods earth. It's like they just got of a boat from Ireland in the 18th century. Time has stood still in Newfie land.

Kids can be extremely cruel - and it isn't just about race. It's about anything that is different that they can target. Up to about age 5 kids are okay with just about anything or anyone breathing. Then they get into school and they start to form cliques of friends.......and from that point on, unless you can instill some very strong empathy in them, if you are different, they will torture you.

I hate to say it, but that's part of the instinctual side of our minds working. That's why parents have to actually RAISE their children to be empathetic people.

I don't know whether I was lucky at primary school but all my class got on and there was never any bullying. Our headmaster was meant to retire the year before we moved up to secondary school but stayed an extra year just to stay until we all left.

Secondary school was pretty much the same. There was one kid that was a bit of a bully to one particular kid in our class but it never got really nasty, probably because nobody ever ganged up on him and did at times stand up for him, plus the bully kid was just trying to act like he was hard, but that was it. I remember seeing he was on Friends Reunited years ago and actually apologised to antybody he had picked on. Obviously with age he had realised he was a bit of a d1ck at school and had come to regret it.

Having said all of that though we were all English and white. I really don't think it would have been any different if a kid was "different" to the rest of us though, I just think we were all brought up right, and that's the truth.

I remember when I was probably about 12, a family that lived in our road had relations come over from Canada. One was a kid a bit younger than us but we all befriended him right away. I suppose we liked him because he was different to us, wasn't white like us and spoke with what we considered at that age, a cool accent. I can't imagine any of my friends bullying that kid, and if we did I know my parents at least would have done something about it.

if mike tyson was prime minister it would not happen

y u do that face thunderbird, u mad?

Hm. I have never seen anyone express agreement in this fashion.

BC sure is strange. Must be the Pacific weather.

It is now on my list of places to visit before I die.

You think they're different in BC - you should check out the East coast.