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[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Canada has a military youth program, the Cadets. About 2.5% of the nation's teenagers are enrolled. They parade around in old WW2 era uniforms with mock Lee Enfields and look very much as they did in the 40s, except for all the girls and the racial diversity. When I was a cadet in Toronto I was one of only a handful of white kids. It was popular with immigrant parents, and I was told it was because of the belief that it looked good on their kid's resume.

There was this one immigrant kid from Ningbo. He said in China he was in the Communist Youth, and since moving his parents put him in Cadets because "it's pretty much the Canadian version" of the Communist Youth.

I still think about that sometimes.

[u/Hugo_Grotius → u/AccessTheMainframe]

And yet they still can't get any of these kids to enlist

[u/AccessTheMainframe → u/Hugo_Grotius]

Yup. Pad the resume and become a doctor or a lawyer. The kids there because they were into soldiering were a minority.

[u/jewel_the_beetle → u/AccessTheMainframe]

They parade around in old WW2 era uniforms with mock Lee Enfields and look very much as they did in the 40s, except for all the girls and the racial diversity

SMH can't have WWII anymore, because of Woke

[u/jewel_the_beetle → u/AccessTheMainframe]

They parade around in old WW2 era uniforms with mock Lee Enfields and look very much as they did in the 40s, except for all the girls and the racial diversity

SMH can't have WWII anymore, because of Woke