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To: FaultLine who wrote (76835)2/23/2003 2:51:09 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
>>Are you perhaps ignoring the 'obvious'? I'm puzzled...<<

I am puzzled, too, if you think there is an obvious reason, because I don't. Why are Canadians anti-American?

Heck, I can't even tell the difference between a Canadian and an American, except the accent, sometimes.

I know why Yankees hate Southerners -- they think Southerners are stupid, and marry their cousins, and are inclined to give Yankees the "Deliverance" treatment.

I know why Southerners hate New Yorkers -- they think they talk too fast, and can't be trusted, and a lot of them are Jewish. A lot of Southerners call it "Jew York," and they call my alma mater, Tulane, "Jewlane," because so many New Yorkers go there.

I know that both of these prejudices are just that, prejudices, and are not normally considered appropriate topics of conversation in polite company.



To: FaultLine who wrote (76835)2/23/2003 6:19:55 PM
From: paul_philp  Respond to of 281500
 

Are you perhaps ignoring the 'obvious'? I'm puzzled...


My problem with the 'obvious' is that it is incorrect. There was a large anti-American feeling prior to the War with Afghanistan.

Big brother bullies little brother and we resent it. The feeling in Canada has more to do with softwood lumber and Kyoto than Iraq.

Paul