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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neeka who wrote (88774)4/1/2003 12:39:17 PM
From: aladin  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Moe,

I am part Canadian - my mother is Canadian and my Dad was an American. He was Army during WW2 and Air Force after the war (and during Korea and Vietnam).

When he retired, we moved to Canada (Nova Scotia) and I went to HS and University there.

Lots of general anti-American sentiment. Lots of cracks about how long it took us to enter WW1 and WW2 etc. Many of these from family who never served (compared to my Dad who had).

However in one PoliSci class in University, we had a Prof who was a Foreign Policy advisor to the then Prime Minister (Trudeau) and his class attracted an interesting contingent. Apart from the normal group, there was a Naval Warfare school in Halifax and we had US and Commonwealth officers attending.

We had a discussion on anti-Americanism in Canadian FP. I thought the best example of why Canadians are anti-American was given by our Kiwi. He compared it to their position vis a vis Australia and how a smaller country close to, and in many ways dependent upon, a larger entity always has a certain amount of resentment in the relationship.

In the Kiwi case they are often incensed at the constant jokes Aussies make at there expense. In the Canadian case he said the typical American's ignorance of all things Canadian was what infuriated.

John
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