I'm not Indigenous, but I can't help but feel that stuff like this and land acknowledgements are such empty gestures.
When it comes to inconsequential things like anthems, politicians will say "I'm open to the changes that Canadians want to see!" but you stop hearing stuff like that as soon as Indigenous people start trying to have their rights respected.
Well, news fatigue is possibly a legitimate not to incrementally change the anthem.
Kinda reminds me of Linus Sebastian's (LTT/LMG/WanShow) take on a video game (Beat Saber) where he said he basically doesn't play this game anymore because every time he boots it up, it requires a small update that breaks compatibility for 3rd party mods.
If you make a small change every year, or 5 or whatever, people are all gonna be on different versions of the anthem, and it's gonna be sort of difficult to get everyone on the same page.
I mean the word native can mean "someone born in a place". But sure it's often used to mean to reference indigenous people. But are we redefining the word native to be the same as indigenous? Are they interchangeable?
Then there's the whole "Where are you from? No I mean where are you really from?" line of questioning. Is that correct since we should think that it's not the land of anyone that's not indigenous? It's your home but not your land, even you you're born here?
It feels like a weird empty gesture by people that are well meaning, but haven't really considered what the meaning behind what they're saying. Present day sentiment is fleeting, but the words will be there long after social media has moved on to something else.
I could see the possibility that future generations could interpret it to mean something about how immigrants are making homes on land that really belongs to people born in Canada. Feels unwelcoming.
It's just really awkward. Nice sentiment and all, but too awkward.
Yawn. Every second he spends thinking about this is a waste, that should be spent thinking about actual problems, of which we have plenty without inventing new ones.