limbo

Jul 30, 2011 00:47

Just living in some kind of odd limbo. Nothing really special to say.

I was just on a trip around Canada and when I got back to Montreal it was odd, I hadn't heard about what went on in Norway even though I'd read the newspaper quite a lot while I was gone (and not just the cartoon pages for once:P) . In Vancouver the papers were covered in news about Rupert Murdoch, but how did I miss something as big as this? In Banff, it wasn't there either, but that's not saying much since the Banff newspaper frontpage was an article about a mother bear and her two cubs who were still living near Exit 77 in case anyone who hadn't gotten a chance to see them in the last two weeks still wanted to go catch a glimpse lol. Oh Canada, why does it seem like we have no real news? I swear, I think I saw an article that talked about how men and women were different as if it was some kind of revelation, and other obvious truth kind of articles filled the pages of the newspaper.

The problems in Norway sadden me even more because I still don't see a way to prevent the kind of sentiment the gunman had if the native Norwegians and the immigrants never mix and remain separate. The way society is set up just doesn't encourage meeting and mixing and I can't blame either side for not spending time with the other. The sentiment of the government response in Norway is lovely though, for example:

"Stoltenberg said the response would not to let terrorism defeat Norway's ''core values of openness, democracy and participation''.

I can't say how much I respect them for their response.
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