Every Canadian, especially those with family that have been here for generations, more than likely has a tiny bit of Indigenous blood in them ... it's just a matter of numbers and circumstance. How do you expect your hundreds of ancestors to now mix with the local people if they've been here for 200-300 years?

Conversely, I always say I'm 100% Indigenous because both my parents were born in the wilderness of northern Ontario and as far as we've known, all their families go back thousands of years of Ojibway Indigenous blood ..... but there is still the possibility that there may have been one or two Europeans somewhere along those lines. We have one great grandfather who was called 'wapi-George' ... basically 'white George' who apparently had very fair skin but his father was undetermined or never known. You can only guess what happened there ... either it was passionate ill fated love, or just a child born from rape.

As far as the racism goes .... I keep telling my friends that nothing has really changed. The only thing that is in the process of changing is the fact that white Europeans are in the last stages of holding onto their privileged status and that in the next few generations, they won't be as important as they used to be .... and that thought just absolutely terrifies them. They are so wound up about losing control that they can't see that it absolutely doesn't matter to everyone else ... and that at the end, once they lose all importance, they won't be any more important than anyone else.

Typical colonist ... now you get me to do that to myself too :(