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Article #1794Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books)
From: Joel M. DeYoung
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:04
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:04
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In article <1993Jan25.220240.1@vxdesy.desy.de>, godfrey@vxdesy.desy.de writes: >In article <1k1aa5INNp2f@pandora.sdsu.edu>, larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) writes: >> My experience has been that a large percentage of the people who have >> emigrated to Canada did so because they couldn't get into the United >> States (green card, citizenship, etc.), and the closest real country >> (not just in location) is Canada. >> >> >> Larry > > >Absolutely agreed. Canada is hugely inferior to the US in all respects, >and Canadians occupy considerable time and efort ina fruitless attempt >to try to convince people otherwise. To the rest of us it looks rather >ludicrous and a little sad. > >Laurence > Do you care to elaborate on this? "Hugely inferior... in all respects" is a bit of a broad statement wouldn't you say? It's all a matter of taste, mate, and you have simply shown your ignorance in systematically categorizing the people of an entire country, a country that, as pointed out earlier, has an immigration rate somewhere in the neighborhood of twice that of the US per capita. And that's because Canada offers many opportunities in education and the possibility for a better life. Joel ======================================================================= || Joel M. DeYoung With much wisdom comes much sorrow; || || Harding University The more knowledge, the more grief. || || deyoung@harding.edu - The teacher || =======================================================================
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!engr.uark.edu!mbox.ualr.edu!acs.harding.edu!DEYOUNG Newsgroups: sci.econ,soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.british,soc.culture.canada Subject: Re: US as No. 1 (3 data books) Message-ID: <1993Jan26.110417.880@ualr.edu> From: deyoung@acs.harding.edu (Joel M. DeYoung) Date: 26 Jan 93 11:04:16 -0600 Reply-To: deyoung@acs.harding.edu References: <1993Jan23.000840.20867@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1k1aa5INNp2f@pandora.sdsu.edu>,<1993Jan25.220240.1@vxdesy.desy.de> Organization: Harding University Nntp-Posting-Host: acs.harding.edu Lines: 34