why does the word 'aboriginal' refer to people who were the first to be in a country? isn't the prefix 'ab-' usually used to negate the word that succeeds it? like abnormal? than why aren't aboriginal people just referred to as the original people? i think it's an odd prefix to add...i've basically been coming across the word aboriginal constantly while testing my partner(i don't like using the term boyfriend anymore...) for his canadian citizenship test. it's all over the 'a look at canada' book u're supposed to study for the test. he just wrote the multiple choice test this morning...just heard from him saying that he thought it was easy, but they didn't tell him if he passed. anyway, so this book is fascinating. i don't think a lot of the things in it are known by canadian citizens born in the country. Such as the fact that New Brunswick (not Quebec) is the only officially bilingual province, and the Chinese helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway. but at least because of this i finally know all the capitals of canadian provinces and territories! i've been living in the country for 5 years, and i never actually thought of looking up all the capitals...a little sad huh? especially after bragging about how i should have been a geography student...a geography student would have known the capitals way more than 4 years ago in my position!also the fact that ontario's total population is possibly less than that of dhaka city, and you can fit in about 7 bangladesh's in ontario just boggles the mind...need to work need to work need to work...
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home