Unlike most academic books, Rethinking the Great White North stirred enough irritation to be attacked by a Globe and Mail columnist. Repeating an old saw, Margaret Wente previously wrote that what makes someone Canadian is having sex in a canoe. Maybe new immigrants should be taught to canoe, Wente said, so they could be more patriotic. The editors of this book took her to task in their introduction. They wrote that this perception, "Canada = Canoeing," was just one of the ways a European colonial mentality permeates both our sense of nation and nature. Wente lashed back in the pages of the broadsheet. I hope environmentalists will listen better than she did.
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机译：与大多数学术书籍不同，《重新思考大白北》引起了足够的刺激，以至于遭到Globe and Mail专栏作家的抨击。玛格丽特·温特（Margaret Wente）重复了一遍旧锯，先前曾写道，使加拿大人在独木舟上做爱的原因。温特说，也许应该教导新移民划独木舟，这样他们就可以更加爱国。本书的编辑将她带入了介绍的任务。他们写道，这种“加拿大=划独木舟”的感觉只是欧洲殖民思想渗透到我们的民族意识和自然意识中的一种方式。温特猛烈抨击了大表的页面。我希望环保主义者会比她听得更好。
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