The British would do it standing stock still, Latinos would dance their sorries, and Canadians would find a way to apologize on ice.

That's what attracts you people, if you don't mind my saying so. You people doesn't sound very polite, but I have lived for years out here in the back of beyond, where I have watched you people come in search of answers.

a copular verb

Speaking of the resulting apartheiding of British Columbia, Cole Harris observed, racism was built into the landscape of settlement.