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nemecj@mit.edu (Joseph Edward Nemec) wrote:
>In article <4en4v3$cgo@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, dalel@unixg.ubc.ca (Dale Lum) wrote:
>
>
>>        Canadian culture is alive and dynamic, and sophisticated far 
>>beyond than what your pitiful American intellect is capable of 
>>comprehending. 
>
>Yeah? How? Hockey riots when you losers lose? Bob and Doug MacKenzie?
>Drinking alot of Molson and hitting each other?
>
>Give me a break. Canada produces nothing. Not music, not film, not art,
>not science. Zip.
>
>>American culture is fast food, conservative politics, and t.v.
>>shows like "A Current Affair" and "Oprah Winfrey". 
>
>It's also Jazz, Blues, great film, great theater, great writers....the
>list is endless.
>
CINEMA:
Canadian cinema is vastly superior to American Cinema.
Denis Arcand and Atom Egoyan are among the greatest directors
IMHO Atom Egoyan is the greatest director EVER and people
will be watching his films hundreds of years in the future and marvelling
at them the same way people marvel at the works of Beethoven, Michaelangelo,
and Shakespeare today. Hollywood is a pulp factory of Lowest common denomenator
shit. Yes there are some good Directors in the U.S.A. but their works get
made in SPITE of the dominant culture not because of it. Stanley Kubrik had
to run away to England in order to be allowed to exercise the full extent of
his genius. Brazil, one of the greatest american movie ever made was almost
strangled by its producer who wanted to dumb it down so stupid semiliterate
culturally moronified Americans would like it. Terry Gilliam allways has
problems anytime he wants to do anything daring. Robert Altmann is virtually
a parahia in Hollywood. Independent Cinema is encouraged daring wierd and
Avant guard in Canada and generously subsidized. Independent cinema in the
USA is neutered by threats from the Christian right and other primitivists.

Great writers:
HA! Mordeccai Richler, Robertson Davies, Margeret Lawrence, Margeret Atwood
come to mind, if you take into account that Canada has allways had
a population 1/10 that of the USA we rate quite well.
ART:
The Group of 7 kicked the butt of all their contemporary American artists.

Science:
HA! HA! HA! HA! 
John Polanyi, Gerhardt Herzberg, Bert Brockhouse, all won the Nobel Prize
thats 3 in the last 25 years for a country with 30- million inhabitants!
If you have any friends with Diabetes they owe their life to two Canadians.

>>Hey, when you 
>>vacantly stare at Rush Limbaugh on tv in that characteristically 
>>American way, does your jaw hang open, and drool run down your cheek?  
>>Just wondering.
>
>No, but the drool does run down the cheek of Jean Chretien. 

Jean Chretien Is a very intelligent man born with a neurological disorder.
This is a Cheap Shot.

>By the way, has he lost the country yet?
>
>>        Not exactly.  Canadians carry maple leaves when travelling 
>>because they don't want to be mistaken for Americans.  U.S. foreign 
>>policy doesn't exactly endear people in, say, Central or South America to 
>>Americans.  
>
>Yes, and you know what? If you idiot canucks would actually learn french
>(one of your official languages) or German, you would hear what they say
>about you. They laugh at you. As one of my friends from Paris said "Joe,
>why do these people wear that stupid leaf?"
>
>"They don't want to be mistaken for Americans."
>
>"But that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard! I mean, Americans have
>power. Canadians are just Americans with even less culture and nothing."
>
Ignorant people are everywhere SO?
>>----
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>>Dale.  (A proud Canadian)
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Nothing more pathetic...
>
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