Main > Everything Else
What makes us different?
Well Fed Games:
I have big love for Canada- my dad is from New Brunswick, and became a legal alien here when he married my mom after meeting her in college here in Indiana. As a kid growing up we would visit my family on the coast up above Maine every year. Most of my impressions of the "differences" are silly things that kids notice, like different flavors of potato chips and my family complaining about the GST, or what they called the "generally stupid tax".
If anything I am surprised at how little we hear about Canada from the media (even in so called "world" news), considering we share a huge border and have such a symbiotic relationship.
phyrosis:
i am a northern canadian through and through, hell i am wearing a plaid shirt and jeans right now and i work in an office... :)
as someone had already said the diffrence between the two is not as clear cut as it may seem. the big problem is that we base our preconceived notions off of what we read and what we see in media. the problem with media is that those with the biggest mouths get heard alot more... sadly those with the biggest mouths are rarely a good representation of the population.
i know many polite people, i know many idiots. every single country has people that struggle with addiction, and every single country has those that have flourished off the backs of others.
saying canada never used slavery or tried to destroy the native people is a lie as well. we just did not do it to the same extream. Canada had japanesse slave camps in WW2, we have also routinly attempted to assimilate the native people by means of education reform (thats a nice way of saying residential schools) in my short life so far i have been noticing a change in the people around me though. it appears that canadians are moving towards a lifestlye that the americans had embraced in the mid 70's. over the last ten years, canadians appear more intent on money and self monetary value. in canada credit card debt has increased faster per capita than the united states over the last twenty years.
each country has its ups and downs. the problem i see in canada is that we are too willing to let others force us to change. landed immigrants refusing canadian law because their laws back home were diffrent and they want to treat us the way they had in their home country.
this is where the states and i personally agree on alot of things... you came to my country, you adopt our laws, our customs, and sing our national anthem. our anthem will be played in school, and we will allow you to bring the best and only the best of your culture. this is why you left your country to come to ours, because we are a land of free people. free from warlords, free from persecussion, free from hate (of the same level they are leaving)
i firmly beleive that we both as countries need to keep moving forward, keep adapting and not be resistant to change. but we also cannot chase change to rapidly. greed then takes over. and greed never helped a country, it corrupts countries.
Canada and the united states are the same people, diffrent goverments, diffrent laws, diffrent history. but we are the same people.
BadMouth:
Only been to Canada once with my grandparents when I was around 12.
They didn't stop anywhere or do anything, just drove up through Niagara and back down through Detroit.
We had a cooler full of undeclared lunchmeat and ate sandwiches while on the road so we wouldn't have to stop anywhere.
This is how all vacations with them were. I think they just wanted to say they'd been a lot of places before they died.
My perception from the media is that Canadians are all super nice and pronounce a couple words funny,
until you go too far north where they spit at people who don't speak french.
I got my passport last year with the intention of taking a motorcycle trip to Canada, but couldn't get away from work.
Hoping to at least get a 4-day weekend trip in this year.
mrhowell:
Spent two weeks fishing here http://www.winelakecamp.com/. Great time and the cigars are better in Canada.
lordnacho:
You humans are all the same, except you buy donuts from different corporations.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version