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To: jttmab who wrote (88624)	4/1/2003 2:48:45 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

>> America believes in being the melting pot. Canada is the mosaic. > Does that suggest that Americans are more inclined to want some level of cultural conformity while Canadians are more accepting [or aware] of the cultural differences. That is an understatement. Toronto is my favorite Canadian city. I consider it my second hometown. You will not believe the level of multi-culturalism that thrives there. Even NYC cannot hold a candle to it. Several years ago Forbes magazine published a list of top 10 cities in the world for business. They picked Toronto somewhere in the middle (7?) because they felt that not only you get all the advantages of a clean and modern American city to develop your product, but you can test market it to sample population there and get a feel for how it would sell internationally (or within the country that you picked the community from). As another example, you can find any ethnic food you can think of in Toronto. And unlike their American counterparts, these foods are damn authentic; they have not been "Americanized". Often times the ethnic food in Toronto has been better than what I got in the original country because of accessibility of better ingredients and better chefs. That the chefs in Canada improved their dishes by making them more authentic but the ones in US have made theirs more palatable to American taste buds, says something about the attitudes of each country. ST [edit: one more difference -- Americans love to wrap themselves in the flag and go ra ra ra. Canadians tend to put themselves down and be critical of themselves, unless the comparison is to America]