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To: Ron who wrote (50696)2/28/2023 2:34:58 PM
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In a way, Canadians are perfectly set up to do well in cultural industries in the US, because we have a unique insider/outsider perspective with respect to American culture. All of us, even the Quebecois, are intimately familiar with American culture production and politics, yet because we are outside it we can still address it critically -- in the sense of questioning, not of attacking -- which is great fuel for creativity. This probably the most true for comedy, which pretty well demands that outsider viewpoint.

And one source of our cultural creativity you might not have thought about was the mass movement of baby boomers across the 49th Parallel to avoid the draft, bringing many cultural workers and academic north of the border in the 1960s and 1970s. If you think about the type of people who would be willing to leave to avoid fighting in that kind of war, they are very likely to be creative, intellectual types.

Another piece of the puzzle has been American racism toward black folks.. Right back to slave days, there has been a constant flow of black people north of the border, and they have made great contributions, especially to our music. (That is not to say Canada doesn't have its own problems with our treatment of black people.)

And if you go all the way back, those we call the United Empire Loyalists, tens of thousands of white folks who moved north into what would later become Canada during after the American Revolution, also played an important part in forming Canadian culture.

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