| ▲ | xyzelement 21 hours ago |
| // Yet, Canada remains independent The first step towards Canada being recognizable as its own country happened in 1867 nearly a century after Franklin's death. |
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| ▲ | some_random 20 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Even today, every member of the Canadian military swears fealty to the King of England. |
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| ▲ | TitaRusell 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | Mexico is an independent country because the US elite belatedly realised that adding millions of brown citizens would be a bad idea. Canada is an independent country because it had the British empire backing them. | | |
| ▲ | cheesecakegood 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s… not really accurate. Some factions in the US flirted with taking over more or even all of Mexico for the grand total of like, a few months, and even then it never would have passed Congress. Additionally “the US elite” is a flawed and inaccurate understanding of mid-1800s politics as even the most basic of historical understanding will tell you. It’s mostly regional politics and economic constituencies, not class struggle. You’re just projecting modern thought and dynamics onto the past. |
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