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dalel@unixg.ubc.ca (Dale Lum) wrote:

>Subject: Re: Why Canadians Are Sup
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>: >I'm sorry you have been consigned by birth to a country which exists almost
>: >entirely NORTH of everything in the US; North of North Dakota must be damn
>: >cold!  I'm sorry nearly your entire population lives within 100 miles of
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>	Actually, in Vancouver (that's on the West coast, as I'm sure 
>your U.S. "education" wouldn't have taught you), the climate is 
>much more pleasant than that oppressive, humid sauna that you call 
>Texas.  Hey, you probably live in a mobile home park down there, don't 
>you?  Those tornadoes must be just loads of fun when they pick up your 
>home and relocate it several kilometers away.  

>: >that border, and any residual bits of "Canadian" culture long ago
>: >disappeared, (except for an obnoxious tendency to winge) so mujch so that

>	Canadian culture is alive and dynamic, and sophisticated far 
>beyond than what your pitiful American intellect is capable of 
>comprehending. American culture is fast food, conservative politics, and t.v.
>shows like "A Current Affair" and "Oprah Winfrey".  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.

>: >Canadians travelling anywhere in the world are forced to plaster themselves
>: >with maple leaves to show they are different.
>: >George Purcell

>	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. 

And the reason they are always mistaken for Americans is because they
unknowingly adopted all of our culture and ideas but just won't admit
it to themselves.   Thus the silly display of Maple leaves.