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Location: Eastern Canada. But if I make a wrong turn at the lights I get stopped by a border guard.
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Originally Posted by betenoire
I hope it works out for her, although I do find it difficult to believe that she would be subjected to more hate in Ireland than here.
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By some of the comments on the news site I don't think you're the only one who questions this. I think we are often complacent in the privileges we enjoy here. I was talking to my neighbour just yesterday about the five years she and her husband spent in Scotland, and the common-place use of racial slurs she would hear in public (just as an example) - something we would pale at here. Maybe we just don't know how good we have it here in North America.
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