Canada vs US
Let's face it, the US has become an egotistical monster! That said, it DOESNT mean Canada would't do the same thing if it were in the US's shoes. That would presume that Canadians somehow have a higher level of conciousness than Americans... which I would disagree with.
As a dual citizen who grew up in both places from time to time... here is a decidedly "anti-Canadian" observation:
Many Canadians get their very {international} identity by NOT being American. Almost as if it is there job to disagree with things America does. Now, let's face it, nowadays that's pretty damn smart!! But is it really? Canadians have been saying the same for decades on all sorts of issues, many of which were simply not that important... or they were actually wrong about.
One Example: Ever since I can remember my news addicted Canadian family spewed newpaper accounts about how aweful it was that America had so many poor, living in such bad conditions {precurser to todays droning about lack of healthcare}. It wasn't till I got to college that I started realizing that the US is really partly a third world nation with the poor of the world flooding over it's boarders {comparitively speaking}... and all those statistics that pompous Canadian policital critics with nothing better to do would spew were completely stupid. You heard the same stuff from the German politicians till they slowly {under tremendous political pressure to override their anti-foreigner feelings} started to "bring" in foreign workers {because the NEEDED them, not because of the nobel laws of the land that AMerica has!!} to do the dirty work. Now they realize the real truth... in a free world with movable people, all this business that Germany {or Canada} was somehow smarter or better due to their standard of living, healthcare, etc... was simply statistical crap and averages based on the fact that the poor of the world were kept out.
BillyC
Let's face it, the US has become an egotistical monster! That said, it DOESNT mean Canada would't do the same thing if it were in the US's shoes. That would presume that Canadians somehow have a higher level of conciousness than Americans... which I would disagree with.
As a dual citizen who grew up in both places from time to time... here is a decidedly "anti-Canadian" observation:
Many Canadians get their very {international} identity by NOT being American. Almost as if it is there job to disagree with things America does. Now, let's face it, nowadays that's pretty damn smart!! But is it really? Canadians have been saying the same for decades on all sorts of issues, many of which were simply not that important... or they were actually wrong about.
One Example: Ever since I can remember my news addicted Canadian family spewed newpaper accounts about how aweful it was that America had so many poor, living in such bad conditions {precurser to todays droning about lack of healthcare}. It wasn't till I got to college that I started realizing that the US is really partly a third world nation with the poor of the world flooding over it's boarders {comparitively speaking}... and all those statistics that pompous Canadian policital critics with nothing better to do would spew were completely stupid. You heard the same stuff from the German politicians till they slowly {under tremendous political pressure to override their anti-foreigner feelings} started to "bring" in foreign workers {because the NEEDED them, not because of the nobel laws of the land that AMerica has!!} to do the dirty work. Now they realize the real truth... in a free world with movable people, all this business that Germany {or Canada} was somehow smarter or better due to their standard of living, healthcare, etc... was simply statistical crap and averages based on the fact that the poor of the world were kept out.
BillyC
