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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gyor" data-source="post: 7954595" data-attributes="member: 6670153">1. Ed Greenwood would have been far more familiar with Canadian History and Geography when he started creating the Forgotten Realms as a child,  it would have been apart of his education system and the region he lived in and explored.  2. I actually normally use First Nations or FN for short when discussing the issue among follow Canadians,  but this time I choose a term I thought more folks would be familiar with.  3. I'm aware of where Canada got it's Parliament,  but Ed Greenwood didn't grow up in England,  he grow up in Canada which is the Parliament he would have been most familiar with.  4. The farming comment was a minor one.  5. Anglo Culture (the British) ruled over and dominated Francophone Cultural from the beginning. It was really only with the quiet revolution that really started to change. I mean yes Lower Canada (Quebec) willingly joined with Upper Canada to form Canada,  but both were still ruled ultimately from Britian until much later. And while the Elves and Half Elves were originally conqueored they've evolved over time into more of a partnership with bouts of Yuirwood Seperatist movements,  including one in 5e FR. Also there was a FN population of humans in the Yuirwood which some of the Elves mated with to produce half an elves. If you think about the FN human tribe of the Yuirwood as like Canada's FNs,  the Elves as Francophones,  the none Yuirwood humans as Anglophones and the Half Elves as Metis then it's hard not to see the Canadian connection. It's also a bilingual. And even the later immigration by an abused minority (Tieflings and others)  from Thay is a reminder of the Underground Railway to Canada from the American South.  6. Amn is somewhat exotic,  but not too exotic and Sembia isn't exotic at all. Ed Greenwood didn't grow up in the West Indies,  he grew up in Canada,  and as a child when he first started creating FR,  he would have been recieving an education on Canadian history primarily including the Hudson's Bay Company.  7. Actually none of those nations to my knowledge support Multiculturalism as state policy and law like Canada does and in fact both the US and France out right reject the idea of Multiculturalism. The US is instead a "Toss Salad" and France expects immigrants to straight up assimulate. The UK just broke off from the EU in large part as a rejection of Multiculturalism. I'm not as certain about New Zealand or Australia. Merely accepting immigrates from other parts of the first world is not enough to make a nation multicultural,  it's s much bigger and broader policy then that.</blockquote>

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