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Because pretty soon everyone wants to make a "slight alteration" and eventually the significance of the uniform is lost and its meaning diluted.

   

Dictionaries evolve too.

   

That is exactly what makes us who we are...
"attractive"..

   

But it is only diluted to this generation...do you think that the uniforms/multiforms of the past, truly meen to us what it did to those who wore them.Those who come after us will not feel the same ,and I think thats what scares people so much about change.

   

Then I say good for us. Welcome to Canada.



This is the kind of stuff that angers me greatly. I ROYALLY hate it when people get stuck on the dictionary definition. The Oxford English Dictionary says marriage is between a man and a woman, so you gays can't be married. Are you always the first to play the semantics game when it suits you? Yeah? So does pg's 12-year-old.

   

Is the "Mountie" a Canadian icon Or a Canadian stereotype?


Either way... "dude" went through the process just like everyone else and EARNED the right to the uniform.
Altered or not!

   

Thanks lily, I almost didn't catch your sarcasm, luckily though you pointed it out for me. Golly-gee, if you hadn't I might have missed out on your clever wit and my life just wouldn't have been the same!

   

Especialy when it comes from a woman

But hey, it must be fun to make fun of us sometimes....

   

Did the changes to any traditions that happened when you weren't looking, that you're not aware of, dilute the tradition for you? Does the RCMP mean less to you today? Or does it just mean less to those wearing the uniform?
Everything evolves, traditions have evolved, uniforms have evolved. In the CF the Dress Instructions are amended often. I get calls all the time because things change so fast most don't even know what's allowed and what's not. Ponytails, braids for women; same for Native Canadians, body piercings, tattoos; the orders of dress are changing fast - if you've been in two years you've been in long enough to see plenty.
So why are we the ones who get to say "STOP!"? Why now? The changes are going to happen without us, and are happening all around. Stay with the times or get left behind.
Do these people know how un-Canadian their attitudes are? Or is it just me who thinks that Canadians perceive themselves as accomodating?

   

First of all, chill out; do you buy your panties pre-bunched?

I only mentioned the fact that uni- means one because a uniform serves a specific purpose: to unify a group of people for a specific reason. I don't care about the traditional sentiments most are expressing, I'm just saying that if wearing a hat serves some purpose, then that purpose is lost when you make exceptions to the rule.

If there's no real reason for the hat anymore, or if it's alright to make exceptions, then someone should have just as much right to refuse to wear the hat altogether. It's discrimination to give special privileges to someone because of their religion, and being a minority doesn't exempt anyone from that fact.

   

Excellent points overall, but I think the Clovis point claim is still a little shakey.

Coins are also a problem, because it's too easy for someone today to buy a Roman coin and drop it where convenient.

Google the 'Red ochre people' sometime. It was a culture that buried their dead in, surprisingly, red ochre. Also had other distinctive burial customs, Found in Newfoundland, Labrador, Ungava. Surprisingly enough, the exact same thing is found in northern Scandanavia, Archangelsk region, Russia, and on to the east. Archaeologists refuse to accept that they were the same people because they find it impossible to hypothesize a Cross-Atlantic culture.

The last red-ochre communities may have been the Beothuk of Newfoundland. The funeral ceremonial was used as the opening scenes of Canada : A People's History.




Until you can accuse someone else of stealing from you.

   

That's the primary purpose of a uniform. Fortunately uniforms have become more practical over the centuries. And continue to do so.

But not all aspects of a uniform have to be identical. Different units, different trades, different elements have identifiable features. I wear my pants bloused with the army combat boot (not CADPAT or sea boots). Means people would rather cross the street than walk past me. They know who I am and where I work.
The only purpose of the hat is to indentify your element (by its colour) and your trade and/or unit (by your cap badge). Why do we wear the hat? Because we're told to. Don't want to wear a hat? Come up with a very good reason and it'll be done. It won't be worth the aggravation to have people like me stopping you and asking you why you're not wearing a hat. Have the paperwork saying you can go without headdress in your pocket. Laminate it - you'll be asked for it often.

Anyway - uniforms will be indenfiable. Put a turban on the Mountie you'll still recognize him as a Mountie. I saw Mounties with earrings two weeks ago. It took effort for me not to go up to their car and ask "WTF?"
Unless you're Klinger we will know who you are and who you work for.

   

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