Sure and I racially profiled you as Canadian once, right? Poor, poor Canadians.
An unusual country. The population, well 90%+, live within an hours drive of the US border - all the way from the east coast across the continent to the west, like moss growing on America's back. Think of the country as a national suburb of America. Canadians cross their country's border more often than most Americans cross a state line. They all vacation in America and successful Canadians generally come to America to stay. They're culturally Americans, would be Americans in fact (yeah, I'm talking about the way the word American is really used, not American as a geographical term) except for an accident of history. More interested in American politics, American everything*, than their own, they seem in a state of perpetual alienation, American in their minds but not in fact.
You'll think that is ridicule, but it's not.
*The presence of Canadians on "A US National Health Care System?" and American political threads are examples ... here they are, arguing their pro and anti opinions on what America's health care system should be. Does anyone argue with Canadians on whether and how they should reform their healthcare system? Not really. We may use it as a good or bad learning example, but what they do up there is their business. Now if I'm wrong about my opinion of Canada, why are you guys on this thread? You and the other Canadians are here because what I said above is essentially right. |
