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In article <4erdo6$12q6@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>,
cs95469@wolfcreek.cs.ualberta.ca wrote:

> nemecj@mit.edu (Joseph Edward Nemec) writes:
> 
> >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?
> 
>      You really believe this stereotyped image?  The MacKenzie brothers were
> _satire_ you idiot.  Which illustrates an important point.  Canadians can
> laugh at themselves.  Not just what they do, but who they are and what this
> country really stands for.  We can look at what we are honestly.  And 
> sometimes we have to laugh.  In the states you cannot look at yourself
> honestly.  Those who do and find something they do not like are considered
> "un-American".

Well, there's really nothing to laugh at, because we're perfect.  If we
weren't perfect, someone would take our place.  Hasn't happened in 50
years, now.

> >Give me a break. Canada produces nothing. Not music, not film, not art,
> >not science. Zip.
> 
>      That shows you have never even bothered to look.  There is more Canadian
> music, film, art and science around you than you know.

This reminds me of a joke: "How can you say Canada sucks?  Haven't you
heard of the Tragically Hip?"

Get a life!  All Canadian music is is homogenized whining.  The Hip,
Spirit of the West, 54-40', Our Lady Peace.  Celine Dion?  Come on.  

Film:  What film?  Where?  The best Canadian films are produced in Quebec,
anyway.  Art?  Which artist is Canadian?  Science?  The Canada Arm on the
American space shuttle?  

> >>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.
> 
>      The list is endless.  Yeah right.  I can only think of two great
> yankee writers; Poe and Hemmingway.

T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maya Angelou, Stephen
Crane, William Carlos Williams, etc.

That's funny.  I can't think of a single great Canadian writer.  Hmm. 

> >>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. 
> 
>      Going for the old Kim Cambell tactic, eh?
> 
> >By the way, has he lost the country yet?
> 
>      As popular as ever.  Whereas people continue to shoot at the White House
> to kill your leader.

And in Canada, you think SO highly of your leader that the only protection
you give him is his wife, Aline.  At least we make assassination
difficult.

> >>        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.  

Yet they still worship our culture.  Hmm.  Do they even know what Canada is?

> >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?"
> 
>      A lot more Canadians know French and German than yanks.  Most Canadians
> speak at least two languages.  You yanks think you can get by with that 
> language you call "English".

It's not our fault if some damned woggie or spic can't speak the bloody
language.  They just become irrelevant in the larger picture.  

> >"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."
> 
>      More compassion towards other nations, a more civil society, a more

Blow up the fishermen!  Kill the Froggies!  

> consistent foreign policy, real commitment to world peace and the environment,

Invite the fishermen to our waters and then blow them up!  Spill cyanide
in Guyanan rivers!

> and a much better attitude towards the countries we travel in.

"Hmm...You funny-talking guys have good beer, eh?"

> >>Dale.  (A proud Canadian)
> 
> >Nothing more pathetic...
> 
>      Oh sure, it is okay for all those inbred yanks to be pretend to be 
> patriotic (while in reality they are just brainwashed), but God forbid there
> should be a patriotic Canadian.  Canadian patriotism is at least more sincere,
> we actually know what we are patriotic about, whereas you yanks are just
> patriotic to whatever the government tells you.

I thought Canada was supposed to be a bilingual, bicultural country. 
You're supposed to be proud of this fact.  In actuality, you regard
Quebeckers as either "foreign" or "insurgent".  Let those goddamned
lamb-fuckers go, you say.  At least in the States we are patriotic enough
to keep our country intact.

*** AND WE KICKED YOUR ASS IN 1776 ***
*** AND WE KICKED YOUR ASS IN 1812 ***

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