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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".


>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.


>>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.


>>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.


>>        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?"

     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".


>"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
consistent foreign policy, real commitment to world peace and the environment,
and a much better attitude towards the countries we travel in.


>>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.
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Serve Gonk.
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