[ He trails off when he says moved on in a way that gives Freddie the not-so-vague sense that he's trying to be polite about an unpolite reality, like the English often do—even if he's never met a Victorian Englishman before, he's met enough tourists over the past year flying commercial to start to pick up on a general pattern of behavior vis-a-vis how unpleasant topics are addressed.
Is he talking about colonialism? Locals as in the indigenous people who were here before the takeover? There seem to be plenty of people here now, though he's seen very, very few faces that look remotely Inuit or First Nations to his eye, so that's the conclusion he falls on — an Arctic 'explorer' who doesn't quite know how to address the topic of Canada's genocides. The whole conversational guidelines around Truth and Reconciliation haven't reached him yet, it'd seem. ]
cw mentions of Canada's genocides
[ He trails off when he says moved on in a way that gives Freddie the not-so-vague sense that he's trying to be polite about an unpolite reality, like the English often do—even if he's never met a Victorian Englishman before, he's met enough tourists over the past year flying commercial to start to pick up on a general pattern of behavior vis-a-vis how unpleasant topics are addressed.
Is he talking about colonialism? Locals as in the indigenous people who were here before the takeover? There seem to be plenty of people here now, though he's seen very, very few faces that look remotely Inuit or First Nations to his eye, so that's the conclusion he falls on — an Arctic 'explorer' who doesn't quite know how to address the topic of Canada's genocides. The whole conversational guidelines around Truth and Reconciliation haven't reached him yet, it'd seem. ]