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[jinju]

Im Canadian and it always makes me emberassed when another Canadian brings up the war of 1812 as if it had anything to do with Canada which, if you study your history, didnt even exist for about half a century after 1812. It was a war between Britain and the US. Canada had shit all to do with it.

Freethought, stop making Canadians look like morons.

[thepeel]

[Gopher]

[gang ah jee]

I'm just glad that New Zealand doesn't have any rubbish like this to argue about endlessly with the Australians (apart from some controversial sports results).

[huffdaddy]

I think an apology from Canada is in order.

[thepeel]

I don't want to start a new thread about muslims, so I'll just post this here...

I've often said that I fear muslims are forming a parallel society. Here is the situation in Germany.

[freethought]

Not commenting on BJ's newest post but just clarifying about the posts above it.

You people are unbelievably simple minded.

Here's the clarification:

I said dominion of Canada rather than saying the following: Upper Canada, Lower Canada, Nova scotia, New Brunswick and New foundland. Why did I say, dominion of Canada? Because it's f-ing easier and clearer than writing that big long list you dumb twats.

2. America and britain. Yes, they fought, but for most of the war British regular forces number around 5000, and do you know where those 5000 were from? CANADA. The places I mentioned above. It was troops from what was to become 'canada'. If we want to be this anal, I don't want to hear a god damned thing about American history prior to January 14th, 1784, since prior to then, technically the US didn't exist. If you want to be anal, we can be f-ing anal.

3. the white house 'not being white'.... just shut up. Everyone knows what was meant, and I was aware of that, but in textbooks and major research papers it's essentially uniformly called THE WHITE HOUSE.

Someone else brought up the case of military might.... well, the US had about half a million troops at it's disposal between regulars, militiamen and indian tribes. The brits had a force roughly 1/10 that size. The key part of the british war effort was the naval blockade.

Then there were the retarded analogies (the japs got beat by Korea), which isn't even close. Forces from the Canada's comprised most of the fighting force for the majority of the war. Yes, there was the naval blockade/warfare which also proved decisive, but all those who keep saying 'canada' did nothing while accusing me of not knowing history need to have their heads checked.

man you people are dense.

[thepeel]

I remember, when I was in Korea, when some newbi from Ont. would sit down at a table with a diverse group of expats and instantly jump into a series of sentences that start "in Canada", or, "unlike in America". All at the table would roll their eyes. Another Canadian.

I'm sure I even did it when I arrived. We are programmed to do it. Freethought, you're not even fighting an uphill battle. Your facing a wall of people are are so throughly annoyed with preachy Canadians that they will not accept your ramblings about a war 200 years ago as even slightly serious.

[Octavius Hite]

[freethought]

I agree with your assessment, BJ, but I also think your statement/being right demonstrates two things: the first is that my simple minded comment stands, and the second is that American arrogance and ignorance of other nations remains a big reason why resentment of Americans exists.

In any case, I'm willing to drop this whole thread, and i had actually stopped following it, but saw that it was back near the top of the list again so I took a peak.

Anyway, BJ, you're right in that that article is a pretty interesting read.

[thepeel]

[Octavius Hite]

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Oh, and one more thing...

Freethought wrote:

[Pligganease]