[quote]buck mulligan wrote:
texasguy wrote:
You know Canada is essentially a bastardized USA right?
The pop culture is a straight up rip off, the economy centers around american companies and their subsidiaries and the only thing good to come out of canada is pamela anderson, who wasn’t even hot until she came to the US and we made her hot.
the military feats are horribly blown out of proportion. canada has done nothing spectacular militarily of it’s own accord.
Yea, well, I can piss farther than you can.
The best thing about being Canadian, aside from all the other stuff listed, is that we enjoy the benefits of being America’s neighbor, yet people around the world don’t hate us. [/quote]
This is also a fact. Our economy tends to rise whenever the US goes to war. When in Europe I made sure I sowed the Canadian flag on my backpack. Americans do the same thing. Odd that.
However, it is common ignorance to villify an American simply for being American. Same as it is common ignorance to attempt to give dominant capital a national identity. Much of American big business is not owned by Americans anymore. Capital is borderless.
Concerning cultural identities, Canada is “America-lite” only if you consider pop culture (which is a rather meagre representation of the subject; it is merely commercialism/consumerism). If you go into any depth on the subject you begin to notice tremendous variety and richness within both societies. To use pop culture as the standard by whcih to compare any two countries is merely to measure consumerism.
Again, its shallow and misrepresentative. Why the strength of one’s military is indicative of the worthiness of a society is beyond me, though Im sure I would think otherwise if I was a nationalist. Nationalists throughout time always boast about their militaries.
And I always find it repugnant to get drawn into arguments over military “accomplishments”, and the grandeur of same. Its interesting that most people who actually participate in war firsthand do likewise.
