Talk:Canadians

Make this a list

I think this could possibly be made a list of cultural identities in Canada. Does anybody else have any opinions?Marine79 (talk) 16:18, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

I think this article should be expanded - look at how long British people is. Jim Michael (talk) 16:20, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

It would be immensely complex to explain the derivation of the Canadian people. British people, though there are three separate groups (picts, gaels, britons), as is explainind, have a common haplogroup. This cannot be said for the hundreds of different european groups (britons, gauls, italics, balts, finns, germanaic, slavs, etc.) asian groups, and african groups present in canada. The aboriginal DNA diversity in the Canadian community is enough to write a 10 volume study on, and they cannot be lumped into one or few haplogroups. It is just not feasible for wikipedia. As is explained in the introduction, being a Canadian does not consider one ethnic group, and as such this should not be written in the style of a "European people". Slaja (talk) 03:48, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Garbage

WOW! Just... WOW! I can't believe how stupid this article is. A clear result of political correctness. I would request it be deleted, but I will probably get some resistance and it will be kept. NorthernThunder (talk) 06:18, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you explained what you meant. It would also be appreciated if you tried to make your criticisms (and your headings) more constructive. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 00:35, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

People of Canada → Canadians — Or, alternatively, Canadian people, though I prefer Canadians as a common name which is clear, succinct and precise. See many other comparable articles, such as Germans, Russians, Israelis, Moroccans, Turkish people, British people, French people, Spanish people. 84.92.117.93 (talk) 17:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

• Support - I would stick with Canadians, though. Presumably French people, Spanish people, etc. are titled as they are because French and Spanish could be confused with the languages (and, thus, are disambiguation pages), and The French and The Spanish are just awkward. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 00:32, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
• Support move to ->Canadians..was not to sure at first, but IP's examples shows it is the preferred international style. Moxy (talk) 00:41, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
• Comment I think the more recently favoured format internationally is Canadian people (it would previously have been Canadians). Examples are Asturian people, Azerbaijani people, Basque people, Breton people, Catalan people, Caucasian peoples, Cornish people, Dutch people, English people, Faroese people, Gagauz people, Galician people, Gibraltarian people, Hungarian people, Irish people, Italian people, Livonian people, Maltese people, Manx people, Portuguese people, Romani people, Sami people, Sardinian people, Scottish people, Spanish people, Turkish people, Ulster Scots people, Valencian people, Welsh people and Yeniche people. Not only was this an attempt to avoid confusion between people and language (where they share the same name, an in English), but also to get round the problem that the Basque people, for example, may not necessarily enjoy being described as Spaniards, who they regard as a separate race, but can accept being included under Spanish people, as they both live in Spain. Skinsmoke (talk) 19:10, 25 June 2010 (UTC)