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What Do We Mean When We Ask People, Where Are You From? Here, The Question Is Often Followed By, No, I Mean Where Are You Really From-originally? Treated With Suspicion, The Question Is Sometimes Answered With And Aggrieved, I'm Canadian- Just Like You. Although Question Occasionally Implies The Notion That Real Canadians Are Descendants Of Nineteenth-century Pioneers. Edited By Peter Fanning And Maggie Goh. The Canadian Immigrant Experience : Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry--cover Includes Bibliographical References. What do we mean when we ask people, "Where are you from?" Here, the question is often followed by, "No, I mean where are you really from-originally?" Treated with suspicion, the question is sometimes answered with and aggrieved, "I'm Canadian- just like you." Although question occasionally implies the notion that "real" Canadians are descendants of nineteenth-century pioneers