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Originally Posted by esquire
How is that any different from an anglo living in, say, Drummondville? Even if the anglo watches the CBC News at night instead of TVA, there is probably going to be some baseline level of integration with the community where they work, shop, maybe belong to a community organization or two, etc. I guess it's possible that someone could use technology to live remotely in English Canada and seal themselves off totally from their immediate surroundings, but it strikes me as a bit unlikely.
There are people in Manitoba who live their lives mostly in Punjabi, German, Russian, Chinese, Cree and even French, but they are still considered Manitoban.
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kool maudit nailed that - "Manitoban" isn't an actual ethnocultural identity. It's just whoever lives in that particular jurisdiction.
A South Asian guy who speaks only Punjabi and not a single word of Russian and who lives and works in Moscow (obviously for a South Asian boss there) isn't "a Russian", but rather, "a guy who lives in Russia at the moment".
(Don't you guys get that difference instinctively? Isn't it... just obvious? Sincere question.)