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fantasticprogress said: JOEL PLASKET IS ALWAYS SO DARN CUTE IN HIS SWEATER VESTS (which he doesn’t happen to be wearing in this video)
omg I can't believe someone on here likes Joel Plaskett TOOOOOO! insane. I thought nobody on tumblr would. and yes omg sweater vests are just the best! hey that kinda rhymed i was a poet and didnt even know it
fantasticprogress said: Defeated. If I may add, this is all very beautiful.
I'm sorry I didn't want you to feel defeated :S
I'm glad you appreciate what I'm saying though and yes, I also find it beautiful too! It feels so good to be able to talk about all this openly on the internet, while in some places in the world, you couldn't even dream of being able to talk about stuff like this in public
fantasticprogress said: I do believe that we are dancing to the same tune, but I fear that I was being too superficial. Nonetheless, we should be wary of signing off the liberal potential of Alberta too quickly. After all, demographics do have a habit of changing over time,Especially when we have the cumuli of economic opportunity on the horizon (British Columbia in the late 19th, early 20th centuries for example). All in a matter of good time (hopefully expedited by more diversity on television) I hope.
I would agree that we should be optimistic about all that but before we get all fuzzy and warm and gooey over how sunny and perfect everything's becoming it's good to acknowledge what's really going on.
While television may be diverse, we must exercise extreme caution in being optimistic about television being able to advance western culture toward educating people about culturally sensitivity and understanding how very complex and fluid societal problems really are. Television programs must be able to bring in some sort of profit for them to air, so you are almost always going to get a very nicely packaged, often simplistic take on an issue, even if it comes from the news media or from a regular drama program or whatever.
Next, when we look at the state of Aboriginal, environmental, and economic affairs in Alberta at the moment, the picture suddenly darkens drastically for me, rather than looking very optimistic. We know that it is often during the worst financial woes that societies tend to ostracize people or groups of people rather than trying to focus on the big picture and right now Alberta is in a terrriibbbleee economic state. They thought all those lovely oil fields would save them this year but it turns out that they're not, due to complicated intergovernmental federal relations and a world trade market that is unbalanced. Now, the province's once shining new leader is being forced to make extreme cuts to all sorts of services. And in the middle of it all, the province gets flooded by torrential rain and snowmelt, causing billions of dollars in damage.
This will probably cause (actually, no, it already is lol I see it on facebook) some real tensions in the ever-growing distance between Aboriginal and settler communities in the province. Flooded communities will have to get moved to different areas and I'm just waiting with baited breath to see if there's going to be some sort of land/geographical conflict (or whether some communities get the help they need but others might not...)
There's a lot of political issues too about what people think should be done with the oilsands and dealing with the effects of the project on certain communities (skyrocketing cancer rates in some aboriginal communities for example). all of these problems aren't going away. They're only going to intensify as Alberta rebuilds and has to make more decisions.
Get at me if you wanna keep talking, this is super interesting but I have to go to bed I have an interview tomw morning so tired.
fantasticprogress said: For the last 5 minutes I was trying to come up with a non-problematic way of saying “but white people are cute though",but I don’t know if it is possible without falling into a discussion about fetishising race or the importance of cultrl diversity
wellll i sort of see what you mean... but honestly, in my very very very honest personal perspective, I do not find anything qualitatively better in terms of attractiveness in one "race" or another than other ones. I mean yeah, white guys are hot... but then I imagine a whole bunch of white guys I know/have seen who are just the epitome of ugly too. And then I think of Asian guys. and when I think of them omg they're so cute... sometimes... unless I find them super unattractive... and black guys can be OOOH soo good looking omg but then other times- not even at all.
So in conclusion, I will just say that when i said i dont have any desire to go to alberta because of there being too many white people there, it didn't have anything to do with looks. For me, it's just a matter of appreciation for what's going on in the world, for what's happening beyond your suburb, and how you actually came to be in the position that you are in in life/society/etc and let me just say that I've met my fair share of people from Alberta and some of them are lovely and whatever but generally speaking you don't get the same sort of liberal consciousness toward others that I find so incredibly important for connecting with others in wealthy, predominantly white, powerful cities as opposed to more diverse ones that's all
fantasticprogress said: The Dixie Chicks did once sing that wide open spaces are a good place to make big mistakes (even ones that can potentially ruin one’s career, in the case of the lead singer).
oh yeah I forgot about them. They're cute and cool. My favourite song of theirs is Earl. Haha. That song is amazeballs. Not really sure what they mean about space and making mistakes- is there really a relationship between space and how your mistakes influence your life? I dont see it
fantasticprogress said: It must have something do with the mountains, because I can’t imagine why else anyone wouldn’t want a cowboy.
All that free open space makes people go a little bonkers maybe. I have noooo desire to go to Alberta, except maybe to ski at any of those resorts that are just on the Alberta side of the rockies. I just feel like that province is just filled with too many white people if that makes any sense lol
fantasticprogress said: Nobody really is in our region of the country, but it is rather nice to see someone who doesn’t wholly reject it. Shania Twain is hot chocolate.
truthhh most ppl dont you're right i wonder why that is... especially with Alberta like RIGHT THERE and all their cowboys and such
haha i love that- hot chocolate. great way to describe someone as likeable. im using that.
fantasticprogress said: I first was introduced to it in the movie "Farewell My Concubine", which is one of my favourite films of all time. And I do suppose that makes sense, and I can only imagine that I would probably be driven insane being exposed to that kind of music on a constant basis. Though, mind you, if they only played country music I would be alright with that. It has the right sort of, as you aptly termed, “grit" to it.
yeah I think we get each other although I'm not the biggest fan of country either tbh. (though i love shannia lol)
