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In article <fawzi-1710961415350001@news1.vir.com> fawzi@vir.com (Fawzi) writes:
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>Yet you watch the same movies, watch the same television, listen to the
>same music, read the same books, etc.  And all that without an ounce of
>translation, with accent, expressions, humour, ideology intact... I guess
>the difference is considerable.

Ooh, be careful.
The accent can indeed be quite different. The humour can also be
considerably different.
The ideology is *certainly* different.
The thing is, that on the surface, things can indeed look very similar.
But when you actually look at the ideology, there is a significant
difference. It reminds me of a trip I went on this summer, to visit some
relatives of my husband in Washington state. These relatives live about
20 minutes from the border, and their mother grew up in Canada, and yet,
when talking to them on any kind of "political" issue, it was quite a
shock to see the profound differences in ideology. It would be pretty
rare for a Canadian to have that kind of ideology, but very commonplace
for an American.
So, while Canadians may enjoy American TV, for example, that does not
mean they can't tell that it's American, and feel the difference from how
Canadians would act in those circumstances.
Same thing goes for British TV, or Australian TV, etc.

- Sheridan.